CTPM prides itself on keeping up to date with the latest news and
trends. It is through research and study that we give the best service
to our clients and provide them with any new advances. To read the results of this CTPM research, select the Papers listed below. Members who would like to read more, click here on
Restricted Research Readings.
Getting TPM & Lean to Work (the TPM3 Way)
Author: Ross Kennedy - CTPM President
Why our methodology is sustainable in an Australasian environment.
A 16 page paper outlining the TPM
3 Way approach of getting Lean & TPM to work in an Australasian workplace where our workplace culture is based on what's in it for me!
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Objectives of TPM3 Activities Author: Ross Kennedy - CTPM President
TPM3 is an enhanced version of TPM & Lean developed by CTPM. It is Business Improvement Strategy designed to Minimise Operational Risk by engaging and developing skills of the frontline workforce (operators and maintainers) so that they can identify equipment, process and quality problems at the earliest possible time and ensure their prompt rectification.
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Examining the Processes of RCM and TPM:
What do they ultimately achieve and are the two approaches compatible?
Author: Ross Kennedy - CTPM President
The original precept for RCM were developed for the aircraft
industry where 'basic equipment conditions' (no looseness, contamination
or lubrication problem) are mandatory, and where operators (pilots)
skill level, behaviour and training is of a high standard.
Unfortunately in most manufacturing and mining operations these
'basic equipment conditions' and operator skill and behaviour levels do
not exist thus undermining the basis of any RCM application.
Paper9 Year Ops Capability of Australian Industry
Why the Operations Capability Average for Australian Industry over the past 9 years has Flat Lined at less than 50%
Based on a 9 year Study of the Operations Capability of Australasian Industry (2002 - 2010)
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Developing competent and engaged Production Team LeadersAuthor: Ross Kennedy - CTPM President
During the second world war, the concept of Training Within Industry (TWI) was developed in the USA to accellerate the training of new or unskilled employees in factories who replaced those who joined the military and went off to war. Without the Training Within Industry methodology, which kept the factories producing at maximum output, the war effort would have been severely impacted.
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