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GA 434 | All About TPM with Ron Pereira

Avatar photo By Jessica Bush Updated on August 8th, 2022

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)

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Jessica Bush

Jessica is responsible for the editorial aspects of Gemba Academy’s content, focusing on course materials, podcast production, social media, and other copywriting efforts. An avid advocate of entrepreneurship, Jessica has worked with two technology startups as co-founder and head marketing strategist. Jessica received her BS in Business Administration from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo, with a minor in Music.

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