... of explaining TPM to their operators, who were mostly young women. They compared TPM to a mother caring for her baby. The equipment, of course, is the baby. The mother, the operator, was responsible ... fever. The mother does a lot of TPM activities, but what if she runs out of options? Then it is time to call the doctor. The doctors are the maintenance people, the specialists. They go in ... notified the maintenance supervisor, who pulled someone off a current job to fix the problem. The craftsman then went to stores to get the replacement part, took it to the machine, then removed...