Following fast development of roller industry, time delivery, quality and cost requirements increased. Damon Industry purchased highly-priced, highly-effective and highly-automated equipment, making the maintenance of equipment particularly important.

On 21st of August 2018 , with the assistance of a consulting company in Shanghai, Damon Industry implemented TPM (total productive maintenance). In the first two days, everybody took part in this activity, from top management to workers. Workers were divided into three groups, with the purpose of launching TPM in two CNC lathe machines. Since the CNC lathe machines are used for belt rollers’ fine finishing, choosing this type of equipment to launch TPM seemed the most suitable.    

Participants in the event were very excited about the initial stage of the program, consisting in cleaning the equipment. By trying to find negative points, we put forward some improvements and wrote a report.

 In the second day, all of the three groups wrote up final reports about the results of the activities. According to the scores given by the teachers and the managers who were asked to take part in evaluation, the third group won the first prize. 

The activity ended, but the real TPM implementation just started. We found out that the negative points, along with the improvements we made can be seen as standards.  The standards will be used in the follow-up processes. TPM helped our products to be more competitive on the market and the advantages are as follows:  

Firstly, time delivery: TPM implementation came with an easy identification of the equipment’s malfunctions and reduction of equipment failure risks, in addition, there was created a record of health, so if the machine suffers a breakdown, it can be instantly fixed. Moreover, clients can receive orders in time, due to the fact that the occurrence of incomplete orders caused by machine breakdowns reduced.      

Secondly, product quality: Through TPM implementation, there were identified many of the equipment’s wear points, which reduced the risks of equipment failure and improved stability and yield of the products.

Thirdly, costs: Along with the TPM implementation, equipment’s availability increased, mold changing time sped up, defect rate was reduced, causing an improvement of the overall efficiency, at reduced costs. In this way, we managed to provide clients with lower procurement costs.      

In the future, with the company leadership’s support, Damon Industry will implement TPM at all levels, which will enhance equipment management and help our company gain competitiveness, while also provide customers with better products.