Strong Point
What is TPM?
TPM stands for Total Productive Maintenance. TPM activities aim to strengthen the company by having all employees participate in the improvement of their work and equipment.
Hanya Seisakusho has been pursuing TPM since 2008. In 2011, we received the Award for TPM Excellence, Category B. At our company, we approach our people and facilities as company assets, implementing TPM and making management improvement a pillar of our activities.
Basic TPM Policy
“Engage in full-participation TPM to build better organizations and a workforce skilled with our equipment.”
- １．Creating a full-participation workplace
- ２．Create organizations that integrate quality into equipment and processes
- ３．Create people- and equipment-friendly accident-free plants
■ The Eight Pillars
Our organization-building activities are supported by eight action pillars.
- Autonomous Maintenance
- Workers look after their own equipment. Encourage operators to be their own mechanics.
- Individual Improvements
- Strive to minimize products costs and work to eliminate all losses.
- Planned Maintenance
- Promote preventive maintenance to reduce sudden breakages to zero.
- Quality Maintenance
- Aim to be number one in safety and quality satisfaction. Maintain and improve quality based on fundamental principles.
- Equipment Development Management
- Gather maintenance prevention information and aim for equipment that fully satisfies employees and customers.
- Administrative Overhead
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Promote visualization of office tasks and aim for speedy, simple, and slimlined business processes.
- Safety, Health, and Environment
- Eliminate all threats and dangers from the workplace, and build comfortable environments that are easy to work in.
- Training and Education
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Encourage qualification acquisition inside and outside the company, and aim to foster workers who are willing to take on any challenge.
■ Kaizen Results Meeting
Every month we hold meetings to present kaizen (improvement) initiatives.
Workplace groups submit their examples of kaizen initiatives, and in a careful document review process, three groups are selected to present their activities to the meeting.
At the meetings, all employees vote to present gold, silver, and bronze awards.
■My Kaizen
This is a rewards system that assesses the results, effects, ingenuity, and effort behind kaizen activities, from small points encountered in day-to-day activities to improvements in major projects, The system contributes to human resources development and company rationalization.
■ TPM News
A newsletter for TPM activities published each month to showcase TPM. Features articles about improvements that workplace groups have implemented, events, and so on.
Younger employees produce the newsletter, helping them internalize TPM concepts.
