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How a Japanese Factory Built a 50-Year Maintenance Culture
Episode 5 of The Manufacturing Podcast dives into the specific maintenance practices that let a mid-sized Japanese precision-parts factory run for 50 years with zero unplanned downtime. Lucas and Luna break down the concept of 'total productive maintenance' (TPM) as practiced by Yamazaki Seiko, a 300-person plant in Nagoya. They explain how the factory trains every operator to do daily inspections, why it keeps a 30-year archive of vibration data on every machine, and how this obsessive culture led to a 99.97 percent equipment availability rate. The episode also explores whether US…
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