Early Equipment Management (TPM)

Orga­ni­za­tions can great­ly improve the reli­a­bil­i­ty, safe­ty, qual­i­ty, and over­all effec­tive­ness of their equip­ment by prac­tic­ing TPM and oth­er con­tin­u­ous improve­ment meth­ods. How­ev­er, some basic design flaws in equip­ment are too tech­ni­cal­ly chal­leng­ing or cost­ly to improve. Ear­ly equip­ment man­age­ment, or EEM, is an approach for max­i­miz­ing the effi­cien­cy and lifes­pan of equip­ment from the ear­li­est design stages.