Total Productive Maintenance - A Systematic Review

TPM is an effective tool and a practical technique, which is aimed at maximizing the effectiveness of the facility by minimizing the downtime of machine, production losses and the material, production losses that occurs during the continuous production process. This also increase the working efficiency and productivity of the employee and a positive inclination is registered in the overall environment of a company. This paper presents the literature review of total productive maintenance which is a positive approach for solving the manufacturing problem, also gives the objective of TPM, a detail about a six big losses, 8 pillar of TPM also give the tool used for improvement, implementation stages, methodology for calculating the overall equipment efficiency and also give the direct and indirect benefits of TPM. The aim of this paper is to study the TPM concept and its implementation program which gives a successful improvement in overall equipment efficiency.