A Review on Implementation of Total Productive Maintenance in Industries

Total productive maintenance is a very important aspect and a tool which is used by many of the manufacturing industries so as to improve the Overall Equipment Effectiveness, reducing losses as well as costs, improving productivity etc. The main objective of this paper is to review the literature of TPM in manufacturing industries and its implementation and to get an idea about how it is applied in different industries and their growth in terms of World Class Manufacturing. The method used is the studying of number of case studies and review papers which deals with the TPM and its implementation in the manufacturing sectors. The results which are obtained by this analysis is that TPM is a highly beneficial process when it comes to manufacturing industries even with the presence of some minor shortcomings. It can be concluded from this paper that implementation of TPM has more advantages than the shortcomings thus it is a very favorable and recommended program.