Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) Shortcomings

[maintech]

Hello

I am a graduate student and doing my thesis
on Total Productive Maintenance. Does anyone
have any thesis papers or any other information on companies using TPM.

Thank you

Frank Purifoy

 

[Jada]

There's lots of books around that will give you a reasobale understanding. A good book to begin with is, "Succesfully installing TPM", the author is Hartmann. While not a brilliant book it is a good reference.Best place to look is in Amazon.com

While TPM is a good methodology, one of its shortcomings (in my opinion)is that it does not relate to the bottom line. For instance, if I have a Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE) of 55% and I improve it to 95%, what does it actually do for the company? Savings should be quantified in some way, preferably in dollar terms and back to return on assetts (ROA).

As a suggestion you might want to structure your papaer around constructing a financial model that identifies levels of improvement from installing TPM into a company.

Hope this helps.