Abstract
Customer needs have become increasingly difficult to satisfy, forcing organisations to bring their A-game to the table and compete effectively. This can be done by having stable processes, effective employees and reliable products that meet or exceed customer expectations. The tyre assembling/manufacturing industry is not immune to this challenge, and it is constantly faced with the difficulties of not producing enough tyres to meet the market demand. This work is set to apply Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) at PUQ (not its original name) tyre assembling process in accordance with the organisation’s strategy to improve process reliability. The primary aim of this work is to improve process reliability of a tyre assembling machine using TPM. This will be done by reducing cured tyre scrap quality loss, reducing body ply stitcher cycle time and determining repetitive downtime and mitigation plan put in place to ultimately improve process reliability...
M.Phil. (Engineering Management)