Hi. You know I was thinking about it. Maybe we could consider an information system in a bank. The system information is composed by a hardware platform, operting systems and the software system itself. Sometimes the personel claims for more speed to any of the systems area personel, maybe the computer is got slow because the hard disk is not well maintained, or a very large path to make an action, not because the design was bad, but some another person would like to have a faster way to do it. So, TPM would increase personel productivity by learning how to improve their operating systems performance, or maybe some new option in the software system. Thus, information flow between the external user or bank customer and the bank would be constant, and the information flow among internal users or bank's information system users would be constant also. So, what I see is that TPM is not only useful in machinery, and I have read is not only for machinery. What I see is we could treat an information system like part of machinery, but Im not sure about that. We know also, that predictive maintenance, improve-related maintenance and maintenance prediction also exists in the software engineering area. We could create maintenance teams also, like in the original TPM idea. We could achieve more commitment from internal users. I would like to know your opinion about it. Thanks for yor help. See ya.
