Abstract. In today’s highly competitive business environment, manufacturers have to offer a great variety
of products on a high quality level, in the least amount of time for an acceptable price. Therefore machine
maintenance and in general, implementing an appropriate maintenance strategy has become increasingly important
for manufacturing companies to accomplish these requirements. Total productive maintenance (TPM)
has become one of the most popular maintenance strategies to ensure high machine reliability. In this paper
and through system dynamics concepts, effects of implementation of TPM on machine reliability, process
quality and net throughput has been analyzed. Results obtained show the effectiveness and usefulness of TPM
in reducing breakdown maintenance (BM) tasks as well as enhancing machine reliability, process quality and
product’s throughput.