“Properly elevating preventive work is at the heart of programs like Total Productive Maintenance, which has been embraced by the Lean Community. tpm insists that we do whatever it takes to assure machine availability by elevating maintenance. As one of my senseis would say, ‘Improving daily work is even more important than doing daily work.’
It takes a future focused business, one that for instance creates value by building and maintaining resilient systems, to see the value in this. Daily work secures today. Improving daily work secures the future, so that daily work is more precise or requires less effort.
