Influences of TPM and TQM Practices on Performance of Engineering Product and Component Manufacturers

Abstract

In the Indian manufacturing sector, Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) and Total Quality Management (TQM) have become the key concepts for improving production performance, over the last few decades. However, research on TPM and TQM generally investigates the impact of these manufacturing programs in isolation. This paper presents an empirical study that employs survey responses from 72 engineering product and component manufacturing firms, to comparatively examine the co-alignment between TPM and TQM practices in enhancing manufacturing performance with respect to separate TPM or TQM practices. There exist a strong and positive relationship between simultaneous TPM×TQM implementation and operational performance parameters. In addition, the results indicate simultaneous implementation of TPM×TQM practices has a significant potential to improve manufacturing performance as compared to standalone or separate implementation.