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P-M Analysis: An Advanced Step
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Authors: Mitsugu Kaneda, Yoshifumi Kimura, Shirose Kunio
In this large-format implementation manual, TPM experts explain P-M
Analysis. (A methodology that makes zero losses a reality in your TPM
program.) P-M Analysis is designed to help your TPM teams analyze and
eliminate chronic problems that have been neglected or unresolved in the
past.
Chronic quality defects and other chronic losses are hard to eradicate,
because they typically have multiple, interrelated causes that vary with
every occurrence. Common improvement strategies, like cause-and-effect
analysis, are usually ineffective in dealing with such complex problems. P-M
Analysis was specially developed to overcome the weaknesses of traditional
methods. It offers a rigorous 8-step method for ensuring that all possible
factors are identified and investigated.
Through P-M Analysis, teams really get in touch with their equipment. Its
unique skill-building process improves technological know-how while
delivering solutions to persistent problems. The first four steps of this
rigorous 8-step program help teams isolate and understand the root causes of
defects and failures within main equipment mechanisms and peripheral
systems. The final four steps provide a systematic approach for effectively
controlling those causes.
A critical concept in P-M Analysis is physical analysis -- a way of thinking
about how defects and failures are generated that forces us to look at the
physical principles involved and to quantify the changes in the relationship
between the equipment mechanisms and product parts involved. When a proper
physical analysis is carried out, teams are far less likely to overlook
important factors or to waste time pursuing unrelated ones. Although not a
cure-all, P-M Analysis has reduced chronic losses to zero and raised
technological expertise in many manufacturing environments.
ORDER CODE: PP3128
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