TPM: A Strategic Tool to Improve the Organizational Efficiency

ABSTRACT: The manufacturing sector in Indian context, continuously strives from competition in market. This competition cause the firms to deduce the product cost whereas increase in product quality with providing new features to make it compatible as per customer need. Depending on the specific challenges and opportunities, careful in vigilance of facilities with in the manufacturing system in the company requires more attention. Therefore, the planning and considerations for the manufacturing system are required to ensure that 'real ' benefits are being achieved, and further, the waste isn't being introduced to the systems. The advance technologies to improve organizational efficiency such as TPM, Lean, JIT, SCM, Agile, Green manufacturing etc. are rottenly linked to the development of ‘higher order thinking’. In Indian manufacturing context, TPM is considered as a step towards the sustainable manufacturing system that encouraged a lot of research and investigation into the field of Maintenance Management. This paper tries to give various perspective of TPM: how it is defined, where is “fits in”, what are the basic guidelines for implementing TPM, and performance measurement practises. This paper also provides in depth knowledge about the restrictions in production system of a manufacturing company and concluded 2 to 6 % increment in OEE of every workstation