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Total Productive Maintenance

TPM is the discipline that made factories reliable: operators who own their equipment, losses that get counted instead of tolerated, and one honest number that will not flatter you. This class teaches it from the ground up — the six big losses, OEE, and the eight pillars — and ends by turning the same discipline on artificial intelligence, which drifts and degrades exactly like machinery and is almost never maintained like it.

Step one · Read

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

Step two · Work

A live calculation you drive with your own numbers, and an instruction to go measure something real.

Step three · Prove

New figures every attempt. Miss one and you are sent back to the exact paragraph that covers it, not just shown the answer.

Your progress is kept on your own device. Close the tab, go back to the floor, and pick it up where you left it. Nothing is transmitted and nobody is asked who you are.

The ten lessons

Losses first, then the number that measures them, then the pillars that fix them, then AI.

    About the certificate

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

    It will state what you demonstrated you can do, carry a serial you can verify, and say plainly that it is not a license and not an industry certification. That is what makes it worth having.

    The assessment opens when all ten lessons are built. Nothing is certified before it is taught.

    AI + TPM — cover

    The books behind the class

    This class is taught from the Total Productive Maintenance series — sixteen titles covering the eight pillars, autonomous and planned maintenance, quality, safety, the office, ISO 9000 and cyber-physical systems. Written by our founder, Dr. Gene A Constant, and donated to the Foundation. Published by Global Sovereign University Press.

    If you want the AI side on its own, in depth, there is a separate free class taught from AI + TPM: A Profound Paradox and Its Dynamic Solutions, which introduces Cognitive Capability Maintenance — a maintenance program for AI capability itself.

    The AI + TPM class The Trades hub Modern TPM

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