TPM
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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
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
Other
- The Pentecostal Mission - a Pentecostal religious denomination in Tamil Nadu, India
- TP Mazembe - a Congolese football (soccer) club
- T. P. M. Mohideen Khan, Minister for Environment in the Tamil Nadu state of India