Integration of Six Sigma & TPM - Please tell me how

I am being trained as Six Sigma Black Belt additionally I also have responsibility for TPM, The management initiative which our company is pursuing with Six Sigma.

Please tell me how these two initiatives can be integrated.

Alok

[Marc]

Anyone with comments on integration of Six Sigma and TPM?

[Steve Prevette]

It might help if we define what "TPM" is.

[wmarhel]

My inclination would be "Total Productive Maintenance", but we all know about assumptions. Although reading the initial post, one has to wonder if it shouldn't have been "TQM"?

Wayne

[Steve Prevette]

And if by TQM, he means a Deming approach, there are certain things that cannot be reconciled between the two approaches. But this is why I asked what the original question meant by "TPM".

[Jennifer Kirley]

I am abashed that this is one of my forums and an unanswered post got by me.

Here is what I found on the two subjects:

http://www.snoino.com/what-is-tpm.htm

http://www.lgchem.com/about/management/sigma.jsp

http://www.plant-maintenance.com/mai...cles_tpm.shtml

I hope this helps!