TPM: Total Productive Maintenance Guide - Second Edition

Author: Lei Zuo
Publisher:
Publish Date: 2006-04-01
Features: This book is co-published with several renowned printing industry book publishing institutions in Europe and America. It covers a wide range of practical content, combining both theoretical and practical business management literature with easy-to-understand technical books. Forward-thinking, practicality, and operability are prominent features of these publications. The release of initial and subsequent books will help Chinese printing enterprises understand global printing technology trends and the operational models of advanced printing companies.
TPM: A Comprehensive Guide to Total Production Maintenance is built on a solid foundation of common-sense measurements, operations, and continuous improvement systems used by most industries worldwide. The primary step is to identify production bottlenecks, followed by applying a series of continuous improvement methods to systematically eliminate them. These systematic approaches include Statistical Process Control (SPC), Single-Minute Exchange of Die (SMED), Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), ISO9000 quality management standards, and training, skills, and knowledge in printing technology systems and processes.
The chapters of this book are arranged in the following order, specifically designed to help establish an effective Total Production Maintenance system:
1. Total Productive Maintenance
2. Equipment Maintenance
3. Comprehensive Pre-press Maintenance
4. Statistical Process Control Tools
5. Identifying Production Workflow Bottlenecks
6. Best Practices
7. Quality Assurance of Printing Materials
8. Optimizing Printing Machines
9. Process Control
10. Rapid Printing Preparation
From the last acceptable print of one job to the first acceptable print of the next, reducing the time required to the minimum.