Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) is a crucial measure in TPM that reports on how well equipment is running. It factors three elements ---the time the machine is actually running, the quantity of products the machine is turning out, and the quantity of good output - into a single combined score.[...]

Standard work is a set of work procedures that effectively combine people, materials, and machines to maintain quality, efficiency, and safety. This text discusses the characteristics of standards, key benefits and applications of standardization, documentation, and other topics.[...]

Since it is human nature to make mistakes, the Zero Quality Control System (ZQC) does not blame people for errors, but instead keeps errors from becoming defects by monitoring processing conditions at the source. In this breakthrough approach, mistake-proofing devices called poka-yoke are used to ch[...]

A brief but complete introduction to TPM offering an easy-to-follow overview of the basic TPM features and implementation.[...]