Abnormality Assessment Form

Topic
Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)

Summary
Provides criteria, with examples, for auditing, evaluating, and benchmarking your TPM program to provide an objective measurement for each element of TPM. The form is intended to be used for tracking the improvement of the area being improved over time. In addition, the form allows for the person responsible for auditing the area to document any ideas, suggestions, or comments.

Objective
Audit your TPM Program to encourage self reflection and ideas for improvement.

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Summary of Steps

1. Go to the area that you want to document
   • Fill in the date of evaluation and the area concerned in their respective fields
2. Begin  auditing from left to right, reading each criteria and criteria detail
3. Assign a score 1-5:  1 being poor, 5 being well done
4. Give suggestions, ideas, or comments for improvement in the right hand field provided
5. Add up and divide out your category subtotals to find individual scores
   1. For each category, add up each score to get your category subtotal
   2. The category subtotal is divided by the following numbers
      1. Minor Flaws score divided by 5
      2. Unfulfilled Basic Conditions score divided by 4
      3. Inaccessible Places score divided by 5
      4. Contamination Sources score divided by 5
      5. Quality Defect Sources score divided by 4
      6. Unnecessary and Non-urgent Items score divided by 5
      7. Unsafe Places score divided by 5
6. Total “category subtotals” and divide to find your average TPM score
   • In the bottom right field marked total put in the number equaling your category subtotals divided by 33 to average your TPM score

Purchase

Included in:
TPM Training Package

Additional Resources
Lean Dictionary