
Tapping the Hidden Capacity of Your Equipment Do equipment issues in your facility lengthen lead times, reduce productivity, increase down time, inflate maintenance costs and frustrate your employees? If so, youre not alone. But youre also not without hope. In this installment of the Lean Training Video Series, brought to you by Bruce Hamilton and the GBMP team and narrated by John Kravontka, renowned TPM expert, you will learn the four phases of Total Productive Maintenance. As you watch this 35-minute video, you will learn to see the invisible wastes that destroy your equipments productivity and the methodology that will set you on the path to zero equipment stoppages. Using graphic examples, TPM: Tapping the Hidden Capacity of Your Equipment demonstrates that our equipment typically runs at shockingly low productivity rates, resulting from breakdowns, setups, idling, minor stoppages, startup losses, and defect production and explains the drawbacks of running in breakdown mode. If 95 out of 100 maintenance jobs are fixing something after it breaks and those jobs cost ten times more than preventative efforts, imagine how much you can save with a program of planned maintenance. Ideas like proper lubrication, contamination prevention, daily inspection, equipment visuals, maintenance history, skills matrices, lubrication excellence, and standardized work are all put in clear, straightforward terms for your whole team to understand. In true GBMP style, TPM creates a series <b>...</b>
Lean
Manufacturing
TPS
Kaizen
TPM
Total
Productive
Maintenance
John
Kravontka
GBMP