A study of total productive maintenance implementation
Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering
ISSN: 1355-2511
Article publication date: 1 September 2001
Abstract
This paper focuses on a study of total productive maintenance (TPM) in three companies. The companies implemented TPM because of the business difficulties they faced. In all three companies senior management had supported TPM and set up suitable organisational structures to facilitate its implementation. The companies had followed Nakajima’s seven steps of autonomous maintenance, although different TPM pillars had been adopted, with the common ones being improvements, education and training, safety, and quality maintenance. The main differences in TPM implementation related to the use of ABC machine classification system and the role of facilitators.
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Citation
Ireland, F. and Dale, B.G. (2001), "A study of total productive maintenance implementation", Journal of Quality in Maintenance Engineering, Vol. 7 No. 3, pp. 183-192. https://doi.org/10.1108/13552510110404495
Publisher
:MCB UP Ltd
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