Total Production Maintenance: A Guide for the Printing Industry
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Total Production Maintenance: A Guide for the Printing Industry
Total Production Maintenance is based on a series of common-sense measurement, operational, and continuous improvement systems used in most industries throughout the world. To stay competitive, printers must maximize all the components of the graphic arts processes--from prepress to shipping. The TPM system is designed to optimize and maintain a graphic arts technical system, as well as accelerate plant production throughput. This third edition of Total Production Maintenance contains updated and additional material, particularly in the area of lean manufacturing as it applies to the graphic arts processes, and addresses a wide range of topics: total productive maintenance, equipment maintenance, prepress maintenance, statistical process control and Six Sigma tools, recognizing production workflow bottlenecks, best practices for lean printing, quality assurance of print materials, TPM analysis: the press, process control, and quick-response makeready.