// ROBOTICS AND SMART FACTORIES TERM
TPM
TPM is an acronym for Total Productive Maintenance, a strategy to maximize equipment effectiveness and eliminate breakdowns by involving all employees. It focuses on proactive maintenance and continuous improvement.
TECHNICAL DEFINITION
TPM, or Total Productive Maintenance, is a comprehensive lean manufacturing strategy focused on optimizing equipment effectiveness and reliability through a system of planned and autonomous maintenance, involving all personnel from operators to management in proactive upkeep.
BACKGROUND
A Trusted Platform Module (TPM) is a secure cryptoprocessor that implements the ISO/IEC 11889 standard. Common uses are verifying that the boot process starts from a trusted combination of hardware and software and storing disk encryption keys.
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- Total Productive Maintenance
- Productive Maintenance
- Equipment Uptime
USAGE NOTE
Implementing TPM significantly reduces downtime and improves overall equipment effectiveness (OEE).
DEVELOPERS
Organizations developing technology related to TPM.
Developer of a mobile-first CMMS (Computerized Maintenance Management System) and EAM (Enterprise Asset Management) platform. Their software helps companies implement TPM principles by streamlining work orders, scheduling preventive maintenance, and tracking asset performance to improve Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE).
A global industrial manufacturing company offering a suite of digital solutions for Industry 4.0/5.0. Their Asset Performance Management (APM) software, part of the Xcelerator portfolio and often connected to their MindSphere IIoT platform, enables predictive maintenance and reliability-centered strategies that form the technological backbone of modern TPM.
Provides a cloud-based CMMS that helps organizations schedule, track, and optimize maintenance. The platform is designed to support maintenance strategies like TPM by centralizing asset information, automating maintenance scheduling, and providing analytics to identify root causes of failure, directly supporting the pillars of Planned Maintenance and Kaizen.
A multinational software corporation that provides enterprise software to manage business operations. Their SAP Intelligent Asset Management suite includes solutions for asset strategy, predictive maintenance, and maintenance execution, allowing companies to embed TPM methodologies directly into their core enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems.
A software and services company known for its ThingWorx IIoT platform and Vuforia augmented reality (AR) solutions. ThingWorx enables real-time monitoring of equipment health, while Vuforia provides AR-guided work instructions and remote assistance for technicians, directly enhancing the Autonomous Maintenance and training pillars of TPM.
A subsidiary of General Electric focused on industrial software. Their Asset Performance Management (APM) software, built on the Predix platform, uses data analytics, AI, and digital twins to monitor industrial assets, predict failures, and optimize maintenance schedules, which are core activities for executing a data-driven TPM strategy.
An Enterprise AI software company providing a platform for developing, deploying, and operating large-scale AI applications. They offer pre-built applications for C3 AI Reliability, which uses machine learning to predict equipment failure, enabling a shift from preventive to predictive maintenance within a TPM framework.
eMaint provides a comprehensive CMMS solution that helps organizations implement maintenance best practices, including TPM. The software facilitates the management of preventive maintenance tasks, work orders, and parts inventory, while providing robust reporting to track key TPM metrics like OEE and Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF).