Seeing the Invisible: Single Point Lessons (TPM & your Lean Transformation)

This could be the most important manual you ever buy! While there are many good texts that describe Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) theory and strategy, little has been provided to stimulate the thinking and passion of the "people who do the work". That is, until now. The purpose of this manual is to provide many examples of quick and often easy solutions that will nurture employee expertise and creativity, and encourage practice and sharing within your organization. "Seeing the Invisible" provides readers with an innovative and invaluable approach to equipment maintenance that builds productive capability, customer value, employee safety, engagement, and development. TPM presents an incredible but often undiscovered opportunity to make your work easier while increasing value to your customers. This manual can be applied regardless of your business, whether it's a manufacturing facility, school/university system, health care facility, industrial plant, warehouse, laboratory or other work environment. The goal of "Seeing the Invisible" is to inspire you and your team to begin to create and circulate your own Single Point Lessons - to capture and categorize the good ideas and best practices, using words and picture, and disseminate them at lightning speed, eliminating the need to re-invent the wheel. You can use the ideas and best practices in this book to teach the concepts and your employees can adapt the concepts to your facility, your processes, and your equipment. With a foreward by Bruce Hamilton ('the toast dude') on the importance of TPM, and why, if you don't have an TPM program in your organization, you need to start one asap. Manual includes a CD with a pdf version of the entire book so you can easily print out Single Point Lessons for your workplace or create your own using John's template!