TPM

TPM is a three letter abbreviation, which may refer to:

Business and technology

• Technical Performance Measure
• Technical Product Manager
• Technical Protection Measure - a 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 Lampur
• Third-Party Maintenance - a term in the information technology (IT) 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
• Thought Process Map - referred to as either a "TMAP" or "TPM", is a tool used with a process improvement project under the methodologies of TQM, Six Sigma, and Lean Manufacturing
• Tivoli Privacy Manager - a component of IBM's Tivoli Software
• Total Productive Maintenance - an equipment-maintenance program for business theory that closely resembles the Total Quality Management (TQM) program and lean manufacturing
• Trading Partner Management - a business-to-business technology for centralizing the definition of all trading partners for the enterprise in one repository
• Transaction Per Minute - an efficiency metric
• Trusted Platform Module - a specification for a secure cryptoprocessor included with some personal computers
• Trajectory Pattern Method - a new inversion technique for nonlinear control systems
• Thrusts or Takes Per Minute - a unit for the speed of thrusting or taking, in any relevant activity

Popular media

• Talking Points Memo - a political blog run by Joshua Marshall
• The Photographer's Mail - a photography industry magazine in New Zealand

Science

• Tethered particle motion - Biophysical Single-molecule experiment method

Law

• Time, Place, (and/or) Manner restrictions - relates to limitations on Freedom of Speech in the United States of America.

Other

• Teeterville Pioneer Museum - a museum in Norfolk County, Ontario, Canada
• The Pentecostal Mission - a Pentecostal religious denomination in Tamil Nadu, India
• TP Mazembe - a Congolese football (soccer) club
• Ticketed Point Mileage, used for calculating airfares using the mileage system
• T. P. M. Mohideen Khan, Minister for Environment in the Tamil Nadu state of India