Abstract
Total productive maintenance is supreme for organizations striving to remain competitive, sustainable, and improve productivity. Maintenance of infrastructures in any corporate establishment is subject to limitations in employees' perspectives. Contributing factors include financial constraints, education, resource constraints, technologies, training, and most importantly the cost of replacing infrastructure. The inabilities to deal with these and other limitations have resulted in significant constraints on the fossil power generating plants. This paper extensively investigates protocols relating to employees' perspectives suitable for effective implementations resulting in sustainable total productive maintenance. The Electricity Supply Commission (Eskom) located in the Republic of South Africa (RSA) is investigated to present a case. Eskom has embarked on different design constraints, role-out skills, and systems-based solutions towards ensuring sustainable total productive maintenance. This paper comparatively reviews the total productive maintenance implementations at Eskom and propose feasible sustainable strategies collected from best practice literature to improve current conventional applications.