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Overview
In order to achieve zero-defect product quality, a company needs to trace defects in equipment to their root causes and permanently eliminate them. Learn how to integrate TPM concepts and methods in your quality program in this easy-to-read case study of TPM, TQC, and JIT at a world-class manufacturer of optical fiber and other electric cable and wire. Using numerous shop floor examples, the author shows supervisors and team leaders how to manage equipment to guarantee higher quality.Contents
Publisher's Message Foreword to the Japanese Edition Preface
1. The Zero Defect Challenge
2. TPM Development at Furukawa Electric
3. Deploying the Five S's and Autonomous Quality Maintenance
4. The Mechanism Behind Failures and Defects
5. The Basic Approach to Defect Prevention
6. Deploying MQP Management
7. Planned Quality Maintenance
8. TPM and the JIT Production System
9. Improvement Results and Future Topics About the Author Index
Editorials
Booknews
Tsuchiya explains the specific application and enhancement of the traditional total productive maintenance concept that he successfully implemented in the Furukawa Electric Company beginning in 1977. He emphasizes that with the increasing sophistication of equipment, and especially the growing automation in manufacturing, production levels and quality become ever more dependent on equipment maintenance. First published in Japanese in 1991. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)Book Details
Published
April 1, 1997
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Pages
223
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9781563271373