Lean Concepts In Total Productive Maintenance, Application and Challenges

TPM is mostly regarded as an integral part of Lean. TPM role in maintenance is similar to TQM in Quality. This paper aims to reach a prescription about the best attitude toward Lean and TPM as well as their implementation. Two companies which have implemented TPM without considering Lean were investigated. They had implemented TPM before Lean, but now believe that a company should start with Lean and grow Lean thinking among the employees. In this paper, Lean and TPM comparison proves that they have several common tools and concepts.