IMPACT OF TOTAL PRODUCTIVE MAINTENANCE METHODOLOGY ON THE PERFORMANCE

Mahmoud Mohamed A. Sayed

Abstract: These days, the organization and companies meet a lot of challenges(internally: to increase the performance, and externally: market share). This work focuses on the internal challenges: such as performance.The most important pillars of the production operations are employees, machines, equipments, and etc. Maintenance represents the important activity that makes the machines and equipments operate efficiently. Companies attempt to increase performance and minimize production costs by using a certain approach such as Total productive maintenance (TPM). This work introduces a methodology to improve the performance (operator and equipment) throughproposed model of TPM. Also, it indicates the importance of maintenance which minimizes or eliminates the production problems and increases the organizational productivity.

Keywords: Maintenance, Maintenance Management System (MMS), Maintenance Office (MO), Preventive Maintenance (PM), Total productive maintenance (TPM), andOverall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE).

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2015.0410007