TPM - TOTAL PRODUCTIVE MAINTENANCE

Implementing Successful Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) in a Manufacturing Plant

This study examines the impact of Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) implementation on an organization in terms of productivity and quality levels. The human resource aspect was investigated to assess motivation of operators through training to reduce set up times, change over stoppages, defects rate and resource wastage on the shop floor. Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) implementation case ...

A Budget-Sensitive Approach to Scheduling Maintenance in a Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) Program

Unexpected failures can reduce throughput—especially if the failure affects the process bottleneck. Furthermore, when a failure occurs, it usually takes longer to correct than a scheduled maintenance activity would, resulting in significantly higher costs. It has been empirically shown that preventive maintenance can reduce the frequency of unexpected failures and, if done at appropriate time i...

Applying Total Productive Maintenance - Tpm Principles in the Flexible Manufacturing Systems

Implementing Total Productive Maintenance ( Tpm ) in Malaysian Manufacturing Organisation : an Operational Strategy Study

Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) has been recognized as one of the significant operation strategy to regain the production losses due to equipment inefficiency. Many organizations have implemented TPM to improve their equipment efficiency and to obtain the competitive advantage in the global market in terms of cost and quality. In the implementation of TPM in a manufacturing organization, bot...

Investigation of Human Aspect in Total Productive Maintenance (TPM): Literature Review

Today in Indian industries total productive maintenance (TPM) has made significant impact on the managers, engineers, technicians and workers. Either with direct involvement in TPM implementation process or due to indirect awareness from employees of other nearby industries who have adopted or planned to adopt TPM concept; TPM has become part of concern for significant portion of employees of I...