Introduction to UPTIME a.k.a Total Productive Maintenance

Introduce the uptime concept as an enhanced approach to total productive maintenance, and outline an online course and client services plan to implement uptime with lean improvements.

Mike Wroblewski shares 30+ years of lean experience, highlighting culture, sustaining a lean effort, and the central role of maintenance and root-cause analysis in total productive maintenance.

Discover how lean thinking drives faster, easier, and better processes by cutting changeovers from hours to minutes through gemba data, internal/external elements, and continuous improvement.

Envision no breakdowns and optimal machine performance by prioritizing uptime and challenging the inevitability of failures, with top management leading total productive maintenance and eliminating leaks and unsafe conditions.

Treating TPM as a project undermines lean thinking; management must invest and align with TPM's eight pillars and foundation five S, balancing autonomous maintenance with operator workloads.

Identify issues that inhibit uptime, including poor planning, lack of buy-in, and quick fixes. Emphasize root-cause problem solving, teamwork, and TPM-based process improvements.

Understand losses, identify root causes, and organize teamwork across operators, maintenance, supervisors, engineers, and management to improve uptime and equipment efficiency.

Decisively identify micro stops and replace bad components to improve uptime, learning from every experiment and raising uptime from 30–60% to 85% in eight months.

Explore how uptime and TPM intersect with lean thinking, five s, and Kaizen, emphasizing a continuous improvement process that involves every employee.

Enable self-sustaining follow-up mentorship by training the client's management team to carry it out, so they can do it themselves within their structure.

Assess top management investment in total productive maintenance by vetting change history, asking why they want TPM, and aligning vision and guiding principles with a true north for sustainable improvement.

Show how to sell uptime by understanding client pain points, addressing leaking machines, and proposing a cultural change and a process investment rooted in SMED-like improvements to boost throughput.

Explore uptime and total productive maintenance through a real-world truck tale. The story shows how a faulty oil pressure sensor and misleading readings challenge problem solving and root-cause analysis.

Identify cave people and toxic behavior, set boundaries, and take decisive action to protect team culture and performance, leveraging leadership and HR insights to coach or fire.

Explore five S principles in maintenance and ownership, guiding you to modify machinery for reliability and safer upkeep. Plan uptime improvements with practical habits and a forthcoming cheat sheet.