V.R. Pramod, S.R. Devadasan, S. Muthu, V.P. Jagathyraj, G. Dhakshina Moorthy (2006) provided maintenance engineering community with a model named “Maintenance quality function deployment” (MQFD) for nourishing the synergy of quality function deployment (QFD) and total productive maintenance (TPM) and enhanced maintenance quality of products and
equipment. The principles of QFD and TPM were studied. MQFD model was designed by coupling these two principles. The practical implementation feasibility of MQFD model was checked in an automobile service station.