Total productive maintenance

Abstract While one talks about quality, and Total Quality Control in Lean Philosophy, it is often said to be dependent on the process. Nakajima more appropriately stated it to be dependent on equipment. Production has mainly turned out to be unmanned, owing to robotics and automation in industry. Equipment in production has become complex owing to automation. This further affirms that production output as well as quality depends on equipment. However, the pace of automation in the field of maintenance  is not at par with that of production automation. This further requires maintenance organization and philosophy to be upgraded for facilitation of modification in maintenance methodology and enhancement of maintenance skills as well, thus leading to Total Productive Maintenance (TPM). TPM is an equipment maintenance system across companies. This chapter briefly reviews the basic concepts of TPM and majorly focuses on the evolution of TPM over a period of time specifically in the form of smart maintenance which is the need of the hour across all the industries to cope up with Industry 4.0