Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) has the goal of maximizing the equipment productivity. Maintenance makes a key contribution towards reaching this goal: it ensures good equipment availability and reliability, and supports compliance with the budget and with environmental regulations.

TPM requires everyone involved with the equipment to play a part. Not only the maintenance department but also people in production, materials management and planning carry out maintenance-related tasks. IPC is a tool that supports you in implementing TPM throughout your organization.

TPM doesn′t just ensure problem-free running of production processes, it also cuts the costs of equipment operation (life cycle costs) and materials management. GM Powertrain Austria introduced TPM to its plant in Aspern, Austria in the mid-90s and uses IPC to manage the program. IPC has helped to make Aspern one of GM′s most productive plants.

IPC is not only used by large companies, but also by many small and medium-sized enterprises. After only three days of preparation and training, the employees can already use the most important functions. The system gives a lot of support for setting up the structures and basic data as quickly as possible. You can start off with a relatively simple installation and IPC offers you many more functions that can be activated at a later stage.

IPC is multilingual and runs on common databases such as Oracle and SQL Server. The reporting system offers a wide range of standard reports and supports audits and ISO certifications. IPC can communicate with ERP systems and can accept a counter signal for maintenance based on units processed. Error messages from the OEE Analyzer can be received automatically in order to ensure a rapid response.