Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) is a strategic shop-floor approach that primarily aims at building a corporate institution that enables maximizing the overall plant effectiveness through total people involvement across all levels and functions within an organization. The goals of TPM simply conclude to Zero Breakdown, Zero Accident, and Zero Defect. At Thai Sulphites, the implementation of TPM was initiated in 1999, inaugurated by TPM Consultant of Japan Institute of Plant Maintenance (JIPM). TPM implementation includes eight pillars of activities that encompass all business processes. Although, Thai Sulphites was able to achieve the TPM Excellence Award in 2002, Thai Sulphites understands TPM is an ongoing initiative, and strict guidance through total employee participation is the roadmap to Zero Breakdown, Zero Accident, and Zero Defect. |