Welcome to the March edition of our monthly newsletter, Learning to Lean. In this month's edition, we focus on a key tool for building operational stability, Total Productive Maintenance.

Announcements

Friday 03/09 is the last day to register for our 3/22 "Quick Changeover and Total Productive Maintenance" workshop at the early registration price.

The following individual public courses may be taken separately or as part of a certificate program. We can also bring any of these courses to your facility.

Course (click on date to register/read more)	Date
Kaizen Events: 5S, Visual Controls, and Mistake Proofing	Mar 8, 2007
Quick Changeover and Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)	Mar 22, 2007
Creating Continuous Flow Manufacturing Cells	Apr 5, 2007
Material Flow and Kanban	Apr 19, 2007
Lean Production Control and Inventory Mgmt.	May 3, 2007

Click here for details on all of our training offerings, both on-site at your facility and public.

Total Productive Maintenance

Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) is a program that helps us improve Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE), which measures quality, performance, and availability of equipment. TPM is a team concept that brings together maintenance, operations, and engineering personnel.

This month's edition features three articles that should help you understand more about TPM. Firstly, we give an overview of TPM Our second article talks about implementing TPM. In our third article, we talk about Toyota's approach to TPM.

The materials referenced in this newsletter will teach you more about implementing lean. If you would like to learn more, feel free to call us at 866-559-5598 or visit our website and click on "Contact Us."

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