Potential Difficulties Of Implementing TPM To Army Maintenance
The Potential Difficulties of Implementing TPM to Army Maintenance According to R. Andersson et al. there are three barriers to implementing TPM in any organization: Personal, organizational, and cultural barriers (Andersson, Manfredsson, & Lantz, 2015).
Personal Barriers. The Army’s personnel have, for the most part, developed a come to work and get off mentality. This type of thought process is, in actuality, to the detriment of the unit’s success. To adopt TPM and its principles, everyone must think of themselves as owners or commanders, in this case, rather than just order takers. Personnel should not feel as if though their input, is not wanted or valued. In this profession knowledge and experience is gained in many different ways, …show more content…
This barrier is a constant threat to the implementation of TPM. As stated before, conflicting requirements change very rapidly in the Army. The lack of communication and training is very evident between the maintainer (maintenance) and the user (unit). This is a direct reflection of the lack of autonomous maintenance, whereas, teams and operators know how to perform daily routine maintenance to free up the maintenance section to perform more scheduled maintenance. When hard breakdowns do occur, the maintenance team will have the flexibility to perform the unscheduled maintenance in a timely efficient manner.
Cultural Barriers. The Army has a culture that has traditionally resisted change. Maintenance has been done a certain way for years and with new innovations such as the Global Combat Support System, there has been a drastic change to the way we conduct maintenance. Change is inevitable, and getting the team online with the change can be difficult.
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This cannot be done in a traditional, sweeping way, because the more levels that are involved, lessens the amount of success attained. TPM has to be done in the same fashion as I have done for this research. Small victories have to won and little improvements that make Army maintenance better and more efficient. Begin at the foundational 5S to get the team to embrace what looks right and organizing the team to be successful. Quality in an organization as large as the Army, can spread from a single maintenance bay to the entire maintenance policy, all we have to do is
Personal Barriers. The Army’s personnel have, for the most part, developed a come to work and get off mentality. This type of thought process is, in actuality, to the detriment of the unit’s success. To adopt TPM and its principles, everyone must think of themselves as owners or commanders, in this case, rather than just order takers. Personnel should not feel as if though their input, is not wanted or valued. In this profession knowledge and experience is gained in many different ways, …show more content…
This barrier is a constant threat to the implementation of TPM. As stated before, conflicting requirements change very rapidly in the Army. The lack of communication and training is very evident between the maintainer (maintenance) and the user (unit). This is a direct reflection of the lack of autonomous maintenance, whereas, teams and operators know how to perform daily routine maintenance to free up the maintenance section to perform more scheduled maintenance. When hard breakdowns do occur, the maintenance team will have the flexibility to perform the unscheduled maintenance in a timely efficient manner.
Cultural Barriers. The Army has a culture that has traditionally resisted change. Maintenance has been done a certain way for years and with new innovations such as the Global Combat Support System, there has been a drastic change to the way we conduct maintenance. Change is inevitable, and getting the team online with the change can be difficult.
The Potential Benefits of Implementing TPM to Army …show more content…
This cannot be done in a traditional, sweeping way, because the more levels that are involved, lessens the amount of success attained. TPM has to be done in the same fashion as I have done for this research. Small victories have to won and little improvements that make Army maintenance better and more efficient. Begin at the foundational 5S to get the team to embrace what looks right and organizing the team to be successful. Quality in an organization as large as the Army, can spread from a single maintenance bay to the entire maintenance policy, all we have to do is