Gemba Academy Podcast: Lean Manufacturing | Lean Office | Six Sigma | Toyota Kata | Productivity | Leadership

This week's guest is Ron Pereira. Ron talked about our TPM, or Total Productive Maintenance, content, and then shared a previous episode on TPM by Balaji Chandrasekar. An MP3 audio version of this episode is available for download here. In this episode you'll learn:  The improvements our content development team has made this year (0:28) About our TPM courses (1:25) Introduction to TPM (4:57) The Eight TPM Pillars 6:54) The benefits of practicing TPM (7:34) Approaching TPM (9:09) Measuring TPM Effectiveness (10:54) Perspectives for setting TPM goals (13:09) How TPM reduces costs (14:33) The quote Balaji wants to share (17:24) His background (18:35) A high-level overview of TPM (19:31) Some of the challenges he sees people face (21:39) His experience with each of the TPM Pillars (23:11) The challenges unique to TPM (24:42) A brief overview of all eight pillars  (27:21) About OEE, including tracking it (33:09) Measuring TPM maturity (36:53) Balaji's parting thoughts (39:41