Implementation of Total Productive Maintenance Methodology: A Review

Abstract — Today’s global world competitive market every industry needs to minimize its operating cost and produce world class products. Maintenance Practice is considered as an important function to increase the Productivity by maximizing the overall equipment effectiveness. Total Productive maintenance (TPM) is an approach to understand equipments function, equipment failure and relationship with product quality.TPM is interference between man and machine. The purpose of this paper is to understand and investigate the contribution of TPM in Indian industry.TPM is a systematic procedure to achieve maximization of profit, increase equipment life,also improve employee morale.The study find out the basic requirement of TPM and proper planning for implementing TPM at the initial stage in the organization.This study discuss important key performance indicators (KPI) of TPM which are machine breakdown time, Mean time between failure (MTBF), Mean time to repair(MTTR). The main objective of TPM is to create active participation of all employees in maintenance and production system