A Study of Productivity Level Among the Employees in Manufacturing Private Sectors Using TPM Special Reference to Pune City

Abstract

Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) is a process or technique. This technique was first introduced by Japanese in 1952. This is an extension to TQM. TPM is a well defined and organized program which eliminate the losses caused by break-down of machines and equipment s by identifying and attacking all causes of equipment break downs and system down time. TPM is a cost-effective technique through this technique it is possible to maintain the plant, machinery/equipment and tools in productive state in least cost. Well maintained machines leads to productivity. There is relation between cost of maintenance and cost of quality. We can t think quality outputs without quality inputs and one of the important input is TPM. Cost incurred to maintain equipment is consider as a quality cost. It is possible to achieve stated quality through conscious efforts put by everyone who is directly or indirectly involved in the production and maintenance system by implementing TPM technique. Europeans and Americans thought that production is low status work and maintenance has below status than production because maintenance does not take part directly in revenue generation rather it is treated as system overhead. But Japanese has proved that production and maintenance has high status. Productivity encompasses cost, quality, quantity, efforts, time, rework, scrap, working environment and competitiveness of the organization. Every manufacturing organization wants to achieve productivity and TPM plays major role in it. This study is concerned with the assessment of TPM as tool to improve organization s performance. In a competitive environment, organization require a significant competitive advantage. Implementation of quality system is used to get competitive edge. Total productive maintenance (TPM) is one of the important pillar of quality systems. TPM can be considered as the medical science of machines. TPM is a maintenance program which involves newly define concept for maintaining plants and equipment s. The goal of TPM program is