Total Productive Maintenance Checklist

A total productive maintenance checklist is used to assess a TPM program: how well it is implemented and whether it is delivering results. TPM is a way of running maintenance that involves operators, plans upkeep, and drives out equipment losses, so this checklist looks at the program as a whole, not at a single machine. Assessing the program is deliberately distinct from inspecting a piece of equipment.

Working through TPM objectives and program scope, autonomous maintenance, planned and preventive maintenance, equipment losses and OEE, and training, spares, and improvement, the checklist confirms whether the foundations of TPM are in place and being used. Because organisations implement TPM differently, it assesses the program you run rather than imposing a single model, and supports a review of where to improve.

TPM often starts with enthusiasm and then fades. Autonomous maintenance slips back to the maintenance team, planned work gives way to breakdowns, OEE stops being tracked, and the program becomes a poster on the wall. Because no one steps back to assess the program, it is not clear which pillars are working and which have quietly stopped.

A total productive maintenance checklist fixes that by assessing the program itself, objectives, autonomous and planned maintenance, losses and OEE, and the support behind them, so it is clear where TPM is delivering and where it needs attention, rather than assuming it is still running because it was launched.