10-10-2014, 10:58 AM
Abstracts: 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. The eight pillars of TPM are very important and serve as guidance to effectively implement TPM programme to improve overall manufacturing performance. In this project the basic issues like planning,overall equipment effectiveness and implementation pertaining to the TPM are discussed.