Abstract
In an environment of intense global competition, both creative and proven strategies need to be considered in order to bring about the effectiveness and efficiency in manufacturing operation. Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) is one of the effective maintenance strategy in enhancing the equipment effectiveness and to achieve a significant competitive advantage. This research paper addresses the impact of three TPM pillars namely planned maintenance (PM), autonomous maintenance (AM) and focused maintenance (FM) on overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) of die attach equipment in the production line of semiconductor industry. The effect of TPM on the OEE is also investigated depending on the equipment types, in where die attach process consist of two models-CANON and ESEC. The primary data was collected from an organization's database and was analysed by SPSS V23. The preliminary results of the analysis showed that the performance of OEE in ESEC is better than the CANON after the implementation of TPM. The analysis also showed that out of the three TPM practices deployed, planned maintenance of equipment by production and maintenance team played the biggest role in increasing the equipment effectiveness. In conclusion, this study provides insights the importance of implementing TPM in order to succeed in a highly demanding market arena.
Highlights
Malaysia government had launched the Economic Transformation Programme (EPT) in order to sustain and elevate country to developed-nation status by 2020
This study show that there is a significant and positive relationship between the implementation of total productive maintenance (TPM) practices at the semiconductor company from the September 2016 to March 2017 and the improvement in the overall equipment effectiveness (OEE) rates that was witnessed in the organization during that time period
Their study proved that with established of Total Productive Maintenance (TPM), the overall equipment effectiveness improved from 68.9866% respectively before TPM implementation to 71.465% respectively after TPM implementation
Summary
Malaysia government had launched the Economic Transformation Programme (EPT) in order to sustain and elevate country to developed-nation status by 2020. Measure has been implemented by the E&E NKEA to enhance the capability and capacity of electronic manufacturing companies. In order to sustain and stay competitive, Malaysian semiconductor companies is urged to upgrade their facility and embrace automation and smart manufacturing. Another study of Wireman [2] mentioned that the cost estimation for maintenance in selected companies increased from $200 billion in 1979 to $600 billion in 1989. Each company has their own focus on TPM implementation or the focus part of maintenance department. With the increased of global competition, the semiconductor companies is forcing to implement world class maintenance techniques will improve equipment utilization and reducing capital expenditure. This research is to understand the different elements of TPM that influence the effectiveness and efficiency in a manufacturing company
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