Study, Design & Implementation of Total Productive Maintenance System

In this research work, a preliminary survey has been conducted which is limited to SMEs, to know the extent to which TPM is being used in these SMEs. This includes 100 manufacturing and 100 non-manufacturing involving service and process industries.It is observed that 46 out of 100 manufacturing based SMEs (46%) and 32 out of 100 non-manufacturing SMEs (32%) have implemented TPM. Thus manufacturing SMEs have comparatively higher percentage of TPM implementation among the selected SMEs.The study has been focused on the remaining 122 SMEs to identify the probable reasons or factors affecting TPM implementation in them. Out of these 122 SMEs, 54 were manufacturing and 68 were non-manufacturing industries. The respondents were requested to express their opinion on numerous factors, which could be the probable reasons affecting TPM implementation in these SMEs. The research work is continued further to design, develop and implement a TPM system on a 600 & 800 ton mechanical press located in a cold forging unit of a manufacturing industry. The study has revealed that TPM provides ample opportunities for the manufacturing industries to improve their plant and equipment effectiveness.