What is TPM

TPM（Total Productive Maintenance), is a management system aimed at reducing the losses at the factory to zero, mainly for the equipment management of automated factory and to maintain productivity. For further details, please see here (What is TPM).

TPM Awards

JIPM launched TPM award system to “strengthen the improvement of enterprise constitutions and contribute to the development of industry, by promoting the modernization of plant maintenance and the development of plant maintenance technologies.” The TPM Excellence Awards, in which the results of plants’ TPM activities are judged and honored, have been awarded to some 3600 plants since the awards’ inception. These awards play a valuable role in JIPM’s assessment operations for the development of Japan’s industrial sector.