ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS FOR IDENTIFICATION OF ATTRIBUTES FOR TPM IMPLEMENTATION

Total Productivity Maintenance is one of the effective strategy designed primarily to maximize the effectiveness of equipment throughout its entire life by the participation and motivation of the entire workforce. The paper presents the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) methodology for the implementation of Total Productivity Maintenance (TPM) in an organization. A TPM implementation methodology has been developed for identification of weight and priorities of TPM attributes by using pare-wise comparison (PCM) method of AHP. The result of this paper is evident that TPM can bring in commendable reforms and improvement in terms of equipment effectiveness, better products quality, meeting promised delivery and conductive work place and may be very useful for strategic and operational decisions. Key words: AHP, TPM, PCM