Total Productive Maintenance aims at maximizing overall equipment effectiveness and uptime throughout the entire life of the equipment. Unlike periodic or scheduled maintenance, which involves the manager and maintenance personnel for an area, TPM is a team based approach that includes operators, maintenance personnel, and area management working together to ensure that machines are performing at higher efficiencies. Manager’s roles are to support and ensure success of TPM efforts. Maintenance roles are to refurbish and improve machines along with regular scheduled maintenance routines, and operators are involved in simple, regular tasks such as daily cleaning, checking and oiling the machine.