TPM

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TPM may refer to:

• Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
• Total Productive Maintenance, an equipment-maintenance program for business theory that closely resembles the Total Quality Management (TQM) program
• Trusted Platform Module, a chip that allows some portions of the controversial trusted computing concept
• Technical Protection Measure, the general term for technologies used to control access to information, especially in the context of copyright
• Technology Park Malaysia, a centre for research and development for knowledge-based industries, located south of Kuala Lumpur
• Trading Partner Management, a B2B technology for centralizing the definition of all trading partners for the enterprise in one repository
• Third-Party Maintenance, a term in the Information Technology industry (and perhaps others) referring to hardware maintenance services outsourced to an entity which is neither the manufacturer nor the owner of the thing being serviced
• Talking Points Memo, a political blog run by Joshua Marshall
• Technical Product Manager
• TP Mazembe
• Thought Process Map -- Referred to as either a "TMAP" or "TPM", is a tool used with a process improvement project under the methodology of TQM, Six Sigma, or Lean Manufacturing.
• Transaction Per Minute

[edit] Religion

• The Pentecostal Mission -- An indigenous pentecostal movement and one of the largest pentecostal churches. Commonly known as CPM,TPM, or NTC and UPC in the United Kingdom.