A Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) Approach To Improve Overall Equipment Efficiency

Good maintenance is fundamental to productive manufacturing system. Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) is an alternative approach to equipment maintenance that seeks to achieve zero breakdowns and zero defects. TPM is an approach to keep the current plant and equipment at its higher productive level through cooperation of all areas of organization. In this paper the selected machines were carefully studied in an industry. Data for past have been analyzed and results achieved are quite encouraging in terms of motivated employees, improvement in overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) and reduction in no. of accidents on shop floor. The analysis has revealed that there are 98% good components, 2% rework losses, where the nine most common causes were identified for the machine stoppages. The OEE was 67% and the six big losses represent 35% loss of the product time. Based on the findings, it was recommended to implement a TPM to improve the OEE of the plant.