Total Production Maintenance: A Guide for the Printing Industry

Total Production Maintenance is based on a series of common-sense measurement, operational, and continuous improvement systems used in most industries throughout the world. To stay competitive, printers must maximize all the components of the graphic arts processes—from prepress to shipping. The TPM system is designed to optimize and maintain a graphic arts technical system, as well as accelerate plant production throughput.This new, third edition of Total Production Maintenance contains updated and additional material, particularly in the area of lean manufacturing as it applies to graphic arts processes, and addresses a wide range of topics: • Total productive maintenance • Equipment maintenance • Prepress maintenance • Statistical process control and Six Sigma tools • Recognizing production workflow bottlenecks • Best practices for lean printing • Quality assurance of print materials • TPM analysis: the press • Process control • Quick-response makeready Total Production Maintenance is designed to help printers develop and implement a formal program for achieving optimum equipment effectiveness. As an additional aid to printers, the book also includes instructions on accessing maintenance, calibration, and process control checklists, both blank and actual templates, used by PIA/GATF for its internal TPM program.

Total Production Maintenance is based on a series of common-sense measurement, operational, and continuous improvement systems used in most industries throughout the world. To stay competitive, printers must maximize all the components of the graphic arts processes, from prepress to shipping. The TPM system is designed to optimize and maintain a graphic arts technical system, as well as accelerate plant production throughput. Total Production Maintenance is a guide to helping printers develop and implement a formal program for achieving optimum equipment effectiveness.

This updated edition of Total Production Maintenance addresses a wide range of topics:

· Total Productive Maintenance · Equipment Maintenance · Total Prepress Maintenance · Statistical Process Control Tools · Recongizing Production Workflow Bottlenecks · Best Practices · Quality Assurance of Print Materials · Optimizing the Press · Process Control · Quick-Response Makeready

This second edition of TPM contains updated and additional material and checklists. It also includes instructions on accessing an ftp site that contains maintenance, calibration, and process control checklists, both blank templates and actual templates used by GATF for its internal TPM program.