Download or read book TPM: Collected Practices and Cases written by Productivity Press and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2019-02-13 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Equipment downtime can bring a lean manufacturing operation to a complete standstill. Total productive maintenance (TPM) is such a fundamental part of becoming lean because a machine failure at one step of a continuous flow process will halt all the steps before and after it. Strategies aimed at eliminating downtime are essential in any operation i