Impacts of Total Productive Maintenance
IMPACTS OF TOTAL PRODUCTIVE MAINTENANCE (TPM)
ABSTRACT:
Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) is a conceptual approach which focuses at the maximization of effectiveness of different facilities within an organization. In its major role it helps us understand the relationships between the different organizational functions and in particularly between production and maintenance (Park and Han, 2001). As many companies around the world have implemented TPM and are successful and satisfied with the implementation; while there are many who are implementing it and gaining the advantage by its continues improvement. But there are some companies who have failed to gain advantage and some who are skeptic about its implementation. This leads us to know more about how TPM impacts different components of different organizations. This article focuses on some components such as overall effectiveness and cultural impacts of TPM on an organization. It concludes in building and maintaining a supportive culture and how overall effective helps in gaining a competitive edge over a long period of time.
1) INTRODUCTION
Any organization want to chase in world class competition must give customer satisfaction by providing reliable product or service on time at lower prize then others. One of the premises is that good maintenance and plant engineering process gives fundamental success in manufacturing (Hanson, 1995; Madu 2000).So the organization must reduce the unnecessary cost of time and material by reducing maintenance cost. And to reduce the maintenance cost is one of the reason to develop manufacturing technology like TPM (total productive maintenance).TPM is introduced by Seiici Nakajima in late 1970s in Japan, which made major influence over the economic progress of Japanese manufacturers (Willmott, 1994).
TPM is basically a program to improve maintenance effectiveness of equipment throughout its life in the organization by the participation and motivation of all
ABSTRACT:
Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) is a conceptual approach which focuses at the maximization of effectiveness of different facilities within an organization. In its major role it helps us understand the relationships between the different organizational functions and in particularly between production and maintenance (Park and Han, 2001). As many companies around the world have implemented TPM and are successful and satisfied with the implementation; while there are many who are implementing it and gaining the advantage by its continues improvement. But there are some companies who have failed to gain advantage and some who are skeptic about its implementation. This leads us to know more about how TPM impacts different components of different organizations. This article focuses on some components such as overall effectiveness and cultural impacts of TPM on an organization. It concludes in building and maintaining a supportive culture and how overall effective helps in gaining a competitive edge over a long period of time.
1) INTRODUCTION
Any organization want to chase in world class competition must give customer satisfaction by providing reliable product or service on time at lower prize then others. One of the premises is that good maintenance and plant engineering process gives fundamental success in manufacturing (Hanson, 1995; Madu 2000).So the organization must reduce the unnecessary cost of time and material by reducing maintenance cost. And to reduce the maintenance cost is one of the reason to develop manufacturing technology like TPM (total productive maintenance).TPM is introduced by Seiici Nakajima in late 1970s in Japan, which made major influence over the economic progress of Japanese manufacturers (Willmott, 1994).
TPM is basically a program to improve maintenance effectiveness of equipment throughout its life in the organization by the participation and motivation of all
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