OCTOBER 19-20, 2012 - YMCA University of Science & Technology

Proceedings of the National Conference on
Trends and Advances in Mechanical Engineering,
YMCA University of Science & Technology, Faridabad, Haryana, Oct 19-20, 2012
increasing productivity levels, quality and guaranteeing deliveries in order to satisfy customers [13].
Organizations that want to survive in today’s highly competitive business environment must address the need for
diverse product range with state-of-the-art product features, coupled with high quality, lower costs, and more
effective, swifter Research and Development (R&D) [5, 7]. TPM consists of six major activities explained
below:
1. Elimination of big losses like low productivity, availability of machine, quality of products etc. based on
project teams organized by the production maintenance, and plant engineering departments.
2. Planned Maintenance carried out by the maintenance departments.
3. Autonomous maintenance carried out by the production departments.
4. Preventive engineering carried out mainly by the plant engineering department.
5. Easy to manufacture product design carried out by the product design departments.
6. Education to support the above activities.
TPM basically works on major 8 pillars (JH, KK, PM, QM, E&T, OT, 5s and SHE), each being set to achieve a
“zero” target. These 8 pillars are shown in Figure 2. The 8 Pillars of TPM are explained with their key activities
in Table 1 below.
Figure 2. Pillars of TPM Methodology
1.1 Office TPM
Office TPM should be started after activating four other pillars of TPM (AM, Kaizen, PM, and QM). It must be
followed to improve productivity, efficiency in the administrative functions and identify and eliminate losses.
This includes analyzing processes and procedures towards increased office automation. Office TPM addresses
twelve major losses, they are processing loss; cost loss including in areas such as procurement, accounts,
marketing, sales leading to high inventories; communication loss; idle loss; set-up loss; accuracy loss; office
equipment breakdown; communication channel breakdown, telephone and fax lines; time spent on retrieval of
information; non availability of correct on line stock status; customer complaints due to logistics; and expenses
on emergency dispatches/purchases [16]. The main purposes of Office TPM are as follows:
• Achieve zero function losses
• Create efficient offices
• Implement service support functions for production departments
In office TPM, all leaders and other members of administration (directly or indirectly attached with the
organization) support the production functions with main focus on better plant performance.
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