Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) Implementation in Automobile Industry: A Case Study of Toyota Kirloskar Motor, Bangalore

Abstract

The study focuses on effective implementation of Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) and its outcomes. To understand the historical background, stages of TPM and strategies adopted in the TPM process to improve the equipment efficiency towards achieving zero defects in the production process. Further, to analyze the reasons and to assess benefits rendering from the implementation of TPM in the Toyota Kirloskar Motor, Bangalore. Therefore, to analyze the TPM implementation in the Toyota Kirloskar Motor, Bangalore structured questionnaire are constructed using a Likert scale. Through a cross-sectional survey design, 100 sample were drawn to carry out the analysis. Further, a normality test applied for the data to decide whether the data are normally distributed or not. For the study these are the following statistical tools are applied Chi-Square test, Mean, Standard Deviation, One-Way ANOVA and One-Sample t-test. The test revealed that majority of the respondents have strongly agreed, TPM implementation leads to attain zero defects in the production process which in turn will help the organization to reduce the wastage, breakdowns, reworks and to manage the resources efficiently towards attaining organizational goal.