DESIGN OF TPM 9001:2008 MODEL FOR IMPLEMENTING TOTAL PRODUCTIVE MAINTENANCE THROUGH ISO 9001 STANDARD BASED QUALITY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

摘要

Beginning from 1970s, the world began to experience the intensification of competition. This intensification of competition triggered the theorists and practitioners to adopt several new manufacturing management models. One of such noticeable manufacturing management models is Total Quality Management (TQM). Under the umbrella of TQM, several techniques, models and approaches emerged. One of them which is most vociferously adopted is ISO 9000 series Quality Management System (QMS) standards. The ISO 9000 series standards emerged in the year 1987. Right from its emergence, the number of organisations getting certified to ISO 9001 standard has been increasing amazingly. The latest version of this standard is ISO 9001 standard. According to the �ISO Survey 2014�, the number of organisations which have been certified to ISO 9001standard is 11,38,155. These unabating certifications indicate that, the modern organisations have been tuning their systems to suit the requirements of ISO 9001 standard. While the implementation of ISO 9001 standard is not an end to achieve continuous quality improvement, it needs to be used as a channel for implementing other models, techniques and approaches. As yet another impact of competition, besides the adoption of ISO 9001 standard, theorists and researchers have identified certain models and approaches under the title �world class manufacturing (WCM) strategies�. One of the WCM strategies is Total Productive Maintenance (TPM). TPM was initiated at Nippondenso Co, Japan during the late 1960s. Later on, it was largely propagated throughout Japan by an Expert by name Seiichi Nakajima. In the beginning years, TPM was purely applied as a maintenance strategy. Later on, the scope of TPM was expanded to make it as a WCM strategy. Hence, the benefits of implementing TPM increased from improving maintenance quality of equipment to enabling the organisations for acquiring competitive strength. A comparison of the benefits of implementing ISO 9001 standard and TPM in organisations reveals that, both these strategies facilitate the organisations to progress with the goal to perform at world class level. This commonality implies that, the benefit of implementing TPM can be increased multifold if it is executed through ISO 9001 standard based Quality Management System (QMS). On realizing the need of this integrated execution, a model integrating the TPM ingredients with ISO 9001:2008 standard was designed. This model has been given the name TPM 9001:2008.