AI plus TPM, free class. A gloved hand holds a bearing assembly on a workbench while a stream of light carries its data to an operator at a console. Panels: the eight pillars of TPM, model drift telemetry, human-AI teaming, cognitive maintenance loops, and workflow, capability and wear trends with a bearing wear prediction.
AI and TPM in three steps. Step one, read: the eight pillars of TPM, from autonomous and planned maintenance to quality, safety and training, with temperature, vibration, current and humidity sensing. Step two, work: sensors on the equipment, vibration and temperature monitored, an OEE gauge reading 84 percent, predictive analytics, a maintenance schedule and anomaly alerts. Step three, prove: a falling downtime trend, mean time between failures of 1200 hours, mean time to repair of 1.5 hours, availability of 98.5 percent, and the plan-do-check-act cycle of continuous improvement. Open full size →

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AI + TPM

Total Productive Maintenance was built for machines that wear out. This class asks what changes when the thing that wears out is a capability, a workflow, a model, a standard, a team's judgement, and what a maintenance discipline for that would actually look like. Sixteen lessons across the book's twenty chapters. Free, no account, nothing to install.

Step one · Read

The chapter, broken into the separate ideas you will be asked to use. Read it, or have it read to you.

Step two · Work

A bench you can change, where the answer moves the way the chapter says it should. Five ideas per lesson, eighty across the class.

Step three · Prove

A new situation every attempt. Miss one and you are told why that choice fails, and sent back to the exact idea it was testing.

Your progress is kept on your own device. Nothing is transmitted and nobody is asked who you are. This class teaches a maintenance discipline for capability, not a software product, and it does not certify anyone to operate or govern a particular system.

The sixteen lessons

Sixteen lessons across twenty chapters. Four of them merge two chapters. All sixteen are open.

    The Certificate of Comprehension

    Working the lessons is practice, and practice does not earn a certificate. The certificate comes from a separate exam that is graded on our server, so no answer key ever reaches your browser and no score can be reported by the student.

    Thirty-two questions drawn from all sixteen lessons; you need 80% to pass. A pass prints a serial-numbered certificate with a link anyone can use to verify it. It says plainly that it records comprehension of the book, and that it is not an industry credential or a qualification issued by any authority.

    Sit the exam

    AI + TPM: A Profound Paradox and Its Dynamic Solutions — cover

    The book behind the class

    AI + TPM: A Profound Paradox and Its Dynamic Solutions sets out Cognitive Capability Maintenance, human-AI teaming and the productivity-reliability paradox across twenty chapters. It was written by our founder, Dr. Gene A Constant, and donated to the Foundation. Published by Global Sovereign University Press. The class is free. The book is how the Foundation pays for it.

    Buy a copy — it funds a free seat More from the Trades

    Global Sovereign University is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and book sales are its only income. A purchase is not a tax-deductible donation.

    The Certificate of Comprehension

    Working the lessons is practice, and practice does not earn a certificate. The certificate comes from a separate exam graded on our server, so no answer key ever reaches your browser and no score can be reported by the student.

    Thirty-two questions drawn from all sixteen lessons; you need 80% to pass. A pass prints a serial-numbered certificate with a link anyone can use to verify it. It records comprehension of the book, and it is not a licence, an industry credential, or a qualification issued by any authority.

    Sit the exam

    The TPM Library

    Sixteen titles on Total Productive Maintenance.

    The eight pillars, autonomous and planned maintenance, quality, safety, the office and knowledge work, ISO 9000, risk, the classroom, cyber-physical systems, and AI. Written by our founder, Dr. Gene A Constant, and donated to the Foundation.

    Modern Total Productive Maintenance - coverModern TPM Autonomous Maintenance - coverAutonomous Maintenance Autonomous Maintenance, expanded edition - coverAutonomous Maintenance — Expanded Planned Maintenance, TPM Book 3 - coverPlanned Maintenance Quality Maintenance, TPM Book 5 - coverQuality Maintenance Total Quality Maintenance, TPM Book 6 - coverTotal Quality Maintenance Office TPM - coverOffice TPM The Knowledge Worker's TPM - coverThe Knowledge Worker's TPM TPM Education and Training, 2026 expanded edition - coverEducation & Training — 2026 TPM Education and Training, facilities - coverEducation & Training — Facilities Safety, Health and Environment TPM - coverSafety, Health & Environment Risk-Based Thinking - coverRisk-Based Thinking ISO 9000, TPM Book 7 - coverISO 9000 The Efficiency Classroom - coverThe Efficiency Classroom TPM and Cyber-Physical Systems - coverCyber-Physical Systems AI + TPM: A Profound Paradox - coverAI + TPM

    This class is taught from the library above and costs nothing. You do not need any of these books to take it — but every copy sold is what pays for it.

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    Global Sovereign University is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and book sales are its only income. A purchase is not a tax-deductible donation.
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    Questions people ask

    AI + TPM: frequently asked questions

    Is the AI + TPM class really free?

    Yes. All sixteen lessons are free, with no account and nothing to install. Your progress is kept on your own device.

    How does the AI + TPM class work?

    It has sixteen lessons, taught from the book. In each one you read the ideas, work a bench that answers back, then answer questions that change every attempt. Miss one and you are sent back to the exact idea it was testing.

    How do I earn the AI + TPM certificate?

    Take the separate exam at globalsovereignuniversity.org/ai-tpm-exam. It has thirty-two questions drawn from all sixteen lessons, in a new order every attempt, graded on our server so no answer key ever reaches your browser. 80 percent earns Silver, 90 percent Gold and 97 percent Platinum, and every pass carries a serial number anyone can verify. It is free, and you may retake it.

    Is the AI + TPM certificate a license?

    No. The certificate records comprehension of the book. It is not a license, an industry credential, or a qualification issued by any authority.

    Do I need the book?

    No. Every lesson is taught on the page. The book it is taught from, AI + TPM: A Profound Paradox and Its Dynamic Solutions, goes deeper, and buying a copy is how the Foundation pays for the free class.

    Do I have to finish the lessons before taking the exam?

    No. The lessons are practice and the exam is the proof. They are separate, so you can sit the exam whenever you are ready.

    Accreditation notice: Global Sovereign University is not an accredited institution and does not grant degrees, academic credit, licenses, or industry credentials. Learners who pass GSU's online exams earn GSU certificates of comprehension.