Critical success factors of total productive maintenance implementation: A review

The maintenance function has gone through many changes over the past few decades. The very traditional perception of maintenance´s role is to get into action whenever a breakdown occurs. Total productive maintenance therefore shifts the paradigm of company´s traditional maintenance system from being reactive to being more proactive by maintaining the equipment in optimum condition at all times. The main findings of this research are that the critical success of TPM implementation such as commitment from top management, cultural change, education and training, clear vision and mission, effective communication, language problems and measurable definition for TPM were identified.