Human Aspects in Implementation of Total Productive Maintenance

The manufacturing industry has gone through significant changes in the last decade. Competition has increased dramatically. Customers focus on product quality, product delivery time, safety and cost of product. Because of these, company should introduce a system to improve and increase quality, productivity and safety continuously. The aim of this paper is to study the Human Aspects in Implementation of Total Productive Maintenance. In this paper, we have taken the case study to demonstrate the Total Productive Maintenance implementation methodology and to highlight the benefits achieved during Total Productive Maintenance in an engineering industry XYZ Pvt. Ltd. (name changed) situated in Indore, Madhya Pradesh. TPM proved that its implementation helped the company significantly to achieve higher Productivity, Quality, Cost, Delivery, Safety, Morale, customer satisfaction and profits or the improvements in key performance indicators (PQCDSM). Based on the analysis for achieving operational excellence 5S, LeadTime Reduction / Throughput time Reduction, Kaizen and preventive maintenance are important. Whereas Poka-Yoke and visual control are necessary activities for implementation of Total Productive Maintenance. S R Chandra Shashidhar K | Dr. Devendra S Verma"Human Aspects in Implementation of Total Productive Maintenance" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-2 | Issue-2 , February 2018, URL: http://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd9396.pdf http://www.ijtsrd.com/engineering/mechanical-engineering/9396/human-aspects-in-implementation-of-total-productive-maintenance/s-r-chandra-shashidhar-k