Overall Equipment Effectiveness Improvement by Implementation of TPM- A study

The improvement of Equipment effectiveness can be achieved by improving the maintenance strategies of critical equipments. This could be done through altering maintenance actions that are performed on the equipments. A case study approach was used. The paper focuses on improving the maintenance in a manufacturing set up using an innovative maintenance regime mix to improve overall equipment effectiveness. This paper investigates the imperfections of the existing maintenance policy of an industry and corrective actions were suggested and implemented accordingly to increase the percentage effectiveness of some critical equipment. The impact of the strategy change is that there is a growth up to 10% in the overall equipment effectiveness within a short period.