article · Management Science Letters
This research presents an integrated continuous improvement model combining Total Productive Maintenance, the Toyota Production System, and Total Quality Management structured around the Plan-Do-Check-Act cycle. It addresses an identified gap in industrial literature, where very few studies integrate all three operational philosophies or provide corresponding guidelines for execution. By analysing the distinctive attributes, shared practices, and existing limitations of each methodology, the study synthesises these concepts into a unified framework. Existing insights regarding the unique and overlapping practices of the three systems are retained. The resulting framework and its implementation guideline are designed to assist manufacturing organisations in sustaining long-term competitiveness and boosting overall profitability.
Manufacturing organisations frequently struggle to coordinate separate maintenance, lean production, and quality management initiatives. By unifying these three complementary approaches into a single continuous improvement cycle, the work provides an aligned framework to help industrial managers streamline operational strategies and enhance bottom-line performance.
The model is aimed at plant managers and operational improvement teams across manufacturing industries. As it was developed entirely from literature analysis rather than empirical field trials, the framework represents early-stage conceptual work. Moving towards practical adoption would require testing and validating the implementation guidelines inside operational factory settings.
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The purpose of this research is to develop an integrated literature based TPM, TPS and TQM model through PDCA cycle, and implementation guideline for the implementation of the model. At this time very few studies are available on this research area, even this research on integrated model of TPM, TPS and TQM practices, and implementation guideline are not corresponding. The methodology to develop the model and the implementation guideline is based on identifying the uniqueness and common practices of TPM, TPS and TQM systems, existing practice of the integration and implementation guideline, identifying the existing gaps on the model and implementation guideline, developing new integrated TPM, TPS and TQM practice model, and implementation guideline. Previous very few studies of uniqueness, common practices and implementation guideline of the three systems are preserved. The findings of this research, an integrated cutting-edge model of TPM, TPS and TQM practices and implementation guidelines are developed. The originality / value of the developed model and implementation guideline enable manufacturing industries continuously to be competitive and profitable.
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DOI: 10.5267/j.msl.2017.11.002
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