Abhishek Jain

R. C. Gupta

S.C.Soni

Abstract

Total Productive Maintenance is one of the significant operation strategy that is designed to optimize equipment performance and ensure effective plant utilization through the use of employee involvement and empowerment, by linking Manufacturing, Maintenance and other engineering functions. Leading Indian industries find Total Productive Maintenance an effective tool in their quest for world class manufacturing. The underlying reason is the premium focus of TPM strategy on equipment itself which is main spring for giving high yield of quality product day in and day out. The aim of this paper is to study the Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) implementation and identify the road map for the same. The study and analysis of TPM model, Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) Process losses focused on the extraction of critical success factor (CSF). The identified major CSF rebelliously contributes to the success of TPM. This study also focused on the TPM criteria and their checklist, which provides the guideline for TPM implementation and shows an examination of how TPM fits into the overall manufacturing system. The step by step TPM implementation program encounters the difficulties and achieves the TPM benefits.

Keywords- TPM, Autonomous Maintenance, OEE.