Productive Maintenance PM

It originates from Preventive Maintenance, and refers to the maintenance which includes Corrective Maintenance and Maintenance Prevention, and is performed to increase the broadly economic efficiency of production. In this maintenance, not only the comparison between them regarding the decrease in equipment control cost and production improvement, but also comprehensive integration of them are performed. These days the productive maintenance is advancing and turning into the next stage of all-hands-type "Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)", an autonomous maintenance based on small groups' activities.


Related term: Facility Maintenance