Sunday, January 11, 2009

Safety capability

-Capability to prevent direct & indirect harm on human body.
-Low frequency of task such as treatment of breakdown, minor stoppages, quality defects.
-Low exposure of rotating parts & drive parts.
-Few protruding or hooking parts.
- Easy to dodge safety hazard.

Resource saving capability

-Capability to perform efficient use of necessary Resources such as energy, Cutting tools, grindstone, Fatty oil, etc.
-Ease of performing.
-Changeover & adjustment.
-Ease of replacing & adjusting cutting tools & grind stone.
-Level of resource recycling
-Energy saving design implemented ?

Operability ( Easy for operating the equipment)

-Capability of quickly & reliably perform correct operation or changeover.
-Ease of performing changeover & adjustment.
-Ease of replacing & adjusting cutting tools & grindstone.
-Ease of operating button ( height, location, quantity, shape, colour etc)
-Ease of transportation & installation of equipment.

Jishu Hozen-Autonomous capability ( Ease for Daily maintenance)

-Capability of quickly receiving maintenance such as Cleaning, oiling, inspection done by the operation department.
-Ease of receiving, cleaning, inspection, oiling, ease of chip collection.
-Level of containment of problem sources & scattering of chips.
-Ease of oiling check up.
-Ease of quality maintenance ( ease of yielding precision measurements).

Maintainability ( Easy for Routine maintenance)

-Capability of performing Deterioration Measurement easily, when Deteriorated, capability of being easily restored.
-Ease of failed part detection.
-Ease of part replacement.
-Speed of functional recovery confirmation.
-Ease of finding deteriorated parts.
-Ease of oil supply & replacement.
-Ease of over haul.

Reliability ( Increase Availability)

-Capability of avoiding functional decline & stoppage.
-Low frequency of breakdown occurrence.
-Low frequency of minor stoppages occurrence.
-Small no. of adjustments.
-Machine cycle time stability.
-Ease of static & dynamic accuracy measurements.

Friday, January 9, 2009

Maintenance Prevention Pillar (MP) Details

-Effective Maintenance Prevention supports reduction of the vertical startup lead-time by improving the initial reliability and reducing variability of equipment and processes.
-In large part, MP improvements are based on learning from the existing equipment and processes within the Focused Improvement, Autonomous Maintenance, and Planned Maintenance TPM pillar activities.

-MP design activity minimizes future maintenance costs and deterioration losses of new equipment by taking into account (during planning and construction) maintenance data on current equipment and new technology and by designing for high reliability, maintainability, economy, operability, and safety.

-Ideally, MP-designed equipment must not break down or produce nonconforming products…The MP design process improves equipment [and process] reliability by investigating weaknesses in existing equipment [and processes] and feeding the information back to the designers.

-One of the goals of MP design is to break free of equipment-centered design mentality by adopting a human-machine system approach. In addition to equipment/process reliability and performance attributes, the systems approach will also look at the man-machine interface as it relates to operability and maintainability and safety.

Maintenance Prevention Pillar (MP) (1)

-Maintenance Prevention refers to “design activities carried out during the planning and construction of new equipment, that impart to the equipment high degrees of reliability, maintainability, economy, operability, safety, and flexibility, while considering maintenance information and new technologies, and to thereby reduce maintenance expenses and deterioration losses.”

-Maintenance Prevention is also known as Early Management , Initial Phase Management and Initial Flow Control.

-The basic objective of MP is to minimize the Life Cycle Cost (LCC) of equipment.

-In TPM, the concept of MP design is expanded to include design that aims at achieving not only no breakdowns (reliability) and easy maintenance (maintainability) but also prevention of all possible losses that may hamper production system effectiveness and pursuit of ultimate system improvement.

-MP design should be done so as to satisfy reliability, maintainability, ‘Jishu-Hozen’, operability, resource saving, safety, and flexibility.”

-Expanding the concept of Total Production Manufacturing, Maintenance Prevention applies to the design of equipment layout and facilitization as well as new processes and products (design for manufacturability).