A Review on Implementation of Total Productive Maintenance in Manufacturing Industries

Total productive maintenance is considered to be a very important and effective tool by many of the manufacturing industries to improve the Overall Equipment Effectiveness and reducing costs, improving productivity etc. The objective of this paper is to review the literature of implementation of total productive maintenance or TPM in manufacturing industries and to get an idea of how it is done in different industries and their growth in terms of World Class Manufacturing. The methods used is the studying of number of case studies and review papers which deals with the implementation of TPM in the manufacturing sectors. The results obtained by this analysis is that TPM is a benefiting phenomenon when it comes to manufacturing industries even with the presence of some minor setbacks. It can be concluded from this paper that implementation of TPM has more upside than the downside thus it is a very favorable and recommended programme.