TPM

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TPM Abbrev. for third-party maintenance. Any maintenance carried out by an organization that is neither the supplier nor the owner of equipment. An advantage of TPM is that systems consisting of items from different suppliers can be maintained from a single point. However, expertise and access to spares and manuals may not be as good as when the originator of the equipment does the work.

A Dictionary of Computing JOHN DAINTITH

TPM

views updated May 17 2018

TPM Computing, etc. third-party maintenance
• (or tpm) tons per minute
• Commerce total productive management
• Chem. triphenylmethane

The Oxford Dictionary of Abbreviations FRAN ALEXANDER , PETER BLAIR , JOHN DAINTITH , ALICE GRANDISON , VALERIE ILLINGWORTH , ELIZABETH MARTIN , ANNE STIBBS , JUDY PEARSALL , and SARA TULLOCH