TOTAL PREVENTIVE MAINTENANCE

TPM means everyone is responsible for equipment. That is the ultimate TPM attitude. To be lean you need to have reliable equipment.To have reliable equipment you need everyone involved in the whole production from the top management to the junior most staff. The traditional attitude of “I design, you fix, you fix I operate ” is long gone and TPM is advocating for “We are all responsible for our equipment” kind of attitude.

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WHY ENGINEERS NEED TO BE CERTIFIED.

You are an Engineer seated somewhere and perhaps you are bored with your current job position, you are looking for promotion, you want to change careers or better still you want to be an ‘engineerpreneur’. Or you just want to be set apart from the rest of the engineers out there. All these you want to do but going back to school for more training or further education is not an option because of one reason or another. Plus for many engineers going back to school after spending five or more years pursuing under graduate education is not top of their priority. Well Engineer, the answer could be certification in your area of choice.

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