{"title":"What is autonomous maintenance","authors":"Malcolm Jones","doi":"10.4324/9781482278064-4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4324/9781482278064-4","url":null,"abstract":"When companies begin to implement Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) they often start by piloting Autonomous Maintenance (AM). This is understandable as AM is one of the key distinguishing features of TPM and also one of the most important activities when understood correctly. To understand AM correctly needs to be seen as an improvement activity within TPM, rather than production teams taking on maintenance activities.","PeriodicalId":202190,"journal":{"name":"Asset Management & Maintenance Journal","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121021016","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}