Significance of Total Productive Maintenance in Manufacturing Industries

Significance of Total Productive Maintenance in Manufacturing Industries

The process of globalization becoming popular in today’s manufacturing markets is one of the major forces influencing on an organization’s business. In order to stay in the race, it is necessary for organizations to continuously improve the effectiveness and efficiency of their production methods. Efficiency and effectiveness of equipment play a major role in modern manufacturing industry to determine the performance of the organizational production improvement along with the level of success achieved in the organization. Total productive maintenance (TPM) is a methodology that aims to increase the availability of existing equipment hence reducing the need for further capital investment. TPM is mostly known as total productive maintenance where the word total represents allover employee involvement, total number of manufacturing equipment, and total processes of the manufacturing system. Productive means generating and getting the most out of any set of inputs, and maintenance meaning the careful management and maintenance of the assets and equipment of the Factory. Today, TPM may also stand for Total Production Management and Total Perfect Management. Hence, total productive maintenance is a holistic approach to equipment maintenance that strives to achieve perfect production.

According to Baluch, Abdullah, and Mohtar, (2012), TPM has its origins at Nippondenso, a subsidiary of the Toyota Motors Company in the late 1960’s. By the early ‘70’s, it had become popular throughout Toyota Motors and subsequently formed the backbone of the famous Toyota Production System. In addition, researchers also mention that, the Toyota Production System is a terminology to ...

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... and may need a year to implement. It can be used not only in the manufacturing industry, but also in the service industry, construction, building maintenance and a variety of other applications. Though, while implementing total productive maintenance there are some difficulties fall in some categories like implementation and technical issues, management, and cultural issues. In short, cultural change is the most important factor in implementing TPM which means that manufacturing organization need genuine top management support to overcome any type of resistance between employees, middle managers, and workers. To overcome these type of problem while implementing total productive maintenance, the commitment from the both employees and managers with any change process take place in firm should be with a full understanding of the mission and objective of that change.