What is TPM

TPM means productive maintenance (activities in which all workers of a corporation are required to participate) and stands for total productive maintenance. 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 4000 plants since the awards’ inception. These awards play a valuable role in JIPM’s assessment operations for the development of Japan’s industrial sector.