Total Productive Maintenance (Tpm) And Socio• Technical Aspects From Malaysian Manufacturing Industries Perspective

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2006-05
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MOHD SHALAHIM, NURUL SHAHIDA
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Maintenance is a vital function in manufacturing industries. Manufacturing industries are exposed to newer and rapidly changing paradigms. A well-conceived maintenance strategy such as Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) should deserve more attention by the manufacturing plants. Apart form that, the socio-technical aspects also playas an important role in the organisations. Referring to the above matter, this study investigates the interrelatedness between two TPM practises; Autonomous Maintenance (AM) and Planned Maintenance (PM) with ten socio-technical aspects which are: [1) confidence; [2) leadership; [3) communication; [4] motivation; [51 teamwork; [6) attitudes; [7] training; [81 empowerment; [91 ownership; and [10) job enrichment. This study was conducted in three phases. In the first phase, the level of knowledge and understanding of TPM practices was investigated via random postal survey of 200 Malaysian manufacturing companies. The response rate was 22.5%. Spearman Rho Product-Moment Correlation Analysis was used for the hypotheses testing. The results showed that the level of knowledge and understanding of TPM practices among the respondents is categorised as average mode. However, the results also showed that only 4.4% of the respondents were certified with TPM Awards certification. Thus, it shows that demanding quality in maintenance practices is still a far cry. Lack of structural format in TPM implementation is the major factor for this state. In the second phase, which is a case study, research on two TPM practices which are AM and PM and ten socio-technical aspects stated above was performed in a manufacturing company. The company was selected based on the highest marks scored in the respondents rank and is awarded with TPM Awards certification. Data was gained from the employees whose directly involved with machine maintenance by using a questionnaire method. Thirty questionnaires were distributed to the employees and the response rate was 83.3%. The results showed that the main constructs, namely AM and PM are significantly correlated with ten socio-technical aspects studied. In both phases of questionnaire survey, data was analysed using statistical software called Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 12.0. The third phase which is the evaluation of Failure Modes and Effects (FMEA) form is executed after the data has been analysed in second phase. As for the result, the FMEA form is designed to correspond with socio-technical aspects mentioned above and to enhance maintenance systems in Malaysian manufacturing companies, particularly.
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Total Productive Maintenance (Tpm) And Socio• Technical Aspects , From Malaysian Manufacturing Industries Perspective
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