There are seven stages in autonomous maintenance (Nakajima, 1988), which
are conduct initial cleaning and inspection; eliminate sources of
contamination and inaccessible areas; develop and test provisional
cleaning, inspection, and lubrication standards; conduct general inspection
training and develop inspection procedures; conduct general inspections
autonomously; workplace organization and housekeeping; and fully implement
the autonomous maintenance program. However, for this study, focus is given
to the three main activities: training and education, teamwork, housekeeping
and employee involvement (McKone et al., 1999). The commitment of top
management to smoothen the autonomous maintenance activity cannot be
denied. Therefore, the company set up TPM organization structure that was
headed by the General Manager. The TPM committees consist of several
managers from Production Engineering, Quality, Materials, and Maintenance.
Technician and engineers were working together to improve equipment
availability and performance. The elementary maintenance jobs such as