TPM process
When TPM was launched the company appointed a TPM team of 12
facilitators/co-ordinators reporting directly to the factory president. They used
cost deployment to identify improvement areas. Their main focus was to
increase productivity and reduce the work space, resulting in an increase in the
quantity of products they manufacture on their site and hence increasing
market share. An example of this is that in 1989 it took 35 days to manufacture
a motorcycle, currently it takes seven days. The company is now focussing on
how to achieve the optimum in line balancing and one-piece flow.