This week's guest is Ron Pereira. Ron talked about our TPM, or Total Productive Maintenance, content, and then shared a previous episode on TPM by Balaji Chandrasekar. An MP3 audio version of this episode is available for download here.

In this episode you'll learn: 

The improvements our content development team has made this year (0:28)

About our TPM courses (1:25)

Introduction to TPM (4:57)

The Eight TPM Pillars 6:54)

The benefits of practicing TPM (7:34)

Approaching TPM (9:09)

Measuring TPM Effectiveness (10:54)

Perspectives for setting TPM goals (13:09)

How TPM reduces costs (14:33)

The quote Balaji wants to share (17:24)

His background (18:35)

A high-level overview of TPM (19:31)

Some of the challenges he sees people face (21:39)

His experience with each of the TPM Pillars (23:11)

The challenges unique to TPM (24:42)

A brief overview of all eight pillars  (27:21)

About OEE, including tracking it (33:09)

Measuring TPM maturity (36:53)

Balaji's parting thoughts (39:41)

Podcast Resources

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GA 313 | The Eight Pillars of TPM with Balaji Chandrasekar

Balaji on LinkedIn

What Do You Think?

What has your experience with TPM been like?