TPM Education and Training

Every TPM pillar depends on one: the people who carry it out.

Plants rarely fail at Total Productive Maintenance for lack of tools. They fail because knowledge does not turn into behavior under pressure. This book is the complete guide to the pillar that fixes that: Education and Training, the pillar that makes the other seven work.

Written by Dr. Gene A Constant, who taught TPM seminars in Mexico City in the 1990s, it follows the idea from the shop floors of Nippon Denso to the connected factory of 2026.

Inside you will learn how to:

• Build a training system that teaches faster than the factory forgets
• Write One Point Lessons that people actually use at the machine
• Design a dojo where skills are practiced safely and verified honestly
• Create skill maps that stop scheduling against imaginary capability
• Run the seven steps to implementing the training pillar and the 12-step TPM development program
• Measure training through OEE, MTBF and MTTR
• Choose among certifications and know what each one really proves

Twenty chapters, with case studies from

• automotive,
• pharmaceuticals, and
• food and beverage,
• for plant managers,
• maintenance leaders,
• TPM coordinators, trainers, and supervisors.

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