TPM-Element: Autonomous maintenance

The aim of „Autonomous Maintenance“ is to achieve a better cooperation between production and classical maintenance. The production crew will be gradually trained by the maintenance crew to apply simple maintenance jobs by their selves. Maintenance gains free capacity for further enhancement of the production machine’s effectiveness through minimization of routine jobs and reduction of unplanned production stops.

Steps 1 – 3 of “autonomous maintenance” have the purpose to put production machines to a “like new” - state and to enhance them further. The machine user thereby performs first easy work - steps.

Within steps 4 and 5 the machine users are imparted structured knowledge, in order to make them capable of performing small maintenance jobs.

Within steps 6 and 7 standards are defined, which enhance machine-environment and production flow. They also assure enhancements by constantly using and improving the development of the machines.

Objective of Autonomous Maintenance (AM)

Improvement of facility effectiveness through reduction of losses

Defects – Aberration of Standard

Defects at a facility

„Lost objective“