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
- 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 provided by an entity which is neither the manufacturer nor the owner of the thing being serviced