Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) has been recognized as one of the
significant operation strategy to regain the production losses due to equipment
inefficiency. Many organizations have implemented TPM to improve their
equipment efficiency and to obtain the competitive advantage in the global
market in terms of cost and quality. In the implementation of TPM in a
manufacturing organization, both Human-oriented and Process-oriented
Strategy has been identified as critical success factors. This paper, therefore,
focuses on the two TPM operational strategies, which is posited, will improve
the extent of TPM implementation in manufacturing organizations. This study
is an attempt to look at the TPM implementation from the perspective of a
developing country such as Malaysia.