Start the Total Productive Maintenance Program at NatSteelVina Co., Ltd.

NatSteelVina Co., Ltd. was established in 1993, with hot rolled concrete products from Ø6 to D32. The company has implemented the ISO 9001 Quality Management System for many years now and continuously maintains it.

According to the Vietnam Productivity Institute, the method of maintaining overall equipment performance (TPM) is a management method applied first in Japan, then popularized and widely applied in manufacturing industries. industry all over the world.

Recently, when the Ministry of Industry and Trade announced the program to support the pilot application of Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) tool for industrial enterprises, the Board of Directors posted sign up for participation. Expected implementation time is from June 2020 to November 2020.

TPM is a management method towards innovation in maintenance activities with the participation of all officers and employees in the business. TPM ensures equipment efficiency, improves productivity, product quality, and a safe working environment. In Vietnam, for many years, in the process of implementing the National Program on “Improving productivity and quality of products and goods of Vietnamese enterprises by 2020”, many enterprises have boldly applied using the TPM method and achieved many positive results.

In here, the consultant surveyed direct production equipment, production support equipment and other indirect equipment related to production.

On the side of NatSteelVina Company, although the TPM has not yet implemented, it has always done a very good job listing and classifying equipment.

The production parameters of the Company are quite good, but with the spirit of continuous improvement, wishing to have a different perspective on modern production management, participating in TPM application, the Company and consulting work together. The scope of application is the entire machine line, and the specific goal is to increase the Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) index by 1% compared to the current average.

Counseling helps project members analyze major loss and waste issues on the line and make assessments to generalize and select topics for key improvement with dark relationships. advantages between benefits and resources spent.

Completing the TPM start-up, identifying key losses and waste and selecting a number of key improvements, NatSteelVina is determined to deploy TPM on the production line and wants, through TPM, everyone will work together and Interact with each other to improve equipment performance in the most effective way with a maintenance system that is carried out throughout the life of the device, while increasing awareness and job satisfaction employees in order to improve productivity, quality and lower product costs, increase competitiveness in the market, make the Company more and more professional and sustainable.

Productivity and Quality Office