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Part 1: Basics of TPM 1. What is TPM? Answer: TPM refers to production maintenance activities involving all employees. It is based on 6S management, team-based improvement activities, and employee-driven improvements, and it is advanced through eight key pillars. This approach enables continuous improvement in both employees’ skills and equipment performance, as well as ongoing standardization, with the goal of achieving the “four zeros” objective and thereby enhancing the overall production capacity and competitiveness of the enterprise. 2. What are the eight pillars of TPM? Answer: 1. Autonomous maintenance 2. Planned maintenance 3. Key issues 4. Initial management 5. Education and training 6. Environmental safety 7. Quality maintenance 8. Process improvement. 3. What is equipment autonomous maintenance? Answer: Autonomous maintenance is a set of management methods based on employees’ thorough understanding of the daily usage of equipment; it involves carrying out regular tasks such as maintenance, cleaning, tidying, and lubrication to enhance employees’ ability to maintain the equipment and reduce its failure rate. It is carried out in seven phases in total, and we are currently in the first phase. 4. The three key tools for autonomous maintenance: TPM team meetings, making use of OPL, and flexible use of management dashboards. 5. In autonomous conservation, the “two sources” refer to: pollution sources and difficulty sources. 6. All factors related to equipment that cause failures or losses in quality are referred to as defects. Based on their impact on such losses, we classify defects into three categories: major defects, medium defects, and minor defects. 7. The essence of TPM is a philosophy of prevention, the four “0” goals, and team activities involving all employees. 8. The eight pillars of TPM advancement are: autonomous maintenance, planned maintenance, key issues, MP activities, education and training, administration/energy, environmental safety, and quality maintenance. 9. The Three On-Sites principle refers to: the site, the actual items, and reality. 10. The concept of four “0s” in TPM refers to the goals of achieving: zero disasters, zero failures, zero defects, and zero waste. 11. The two pillars of TPM activities? Answer: 1. Thorough 6S activities ； 2. Group activities with repetitive tasks 12. The six benefits of TPM activities are: production, quality, cost, delivery time, safety, and morale. 13. “The three présences” refer to “the site,” “the actual object,” and “the reality.”