STUDY OF SYNCHRONIZATION IN THE AREAS OF TPM IMPLEMENTATION

Resumo

It is normal to find industries, which implemented the TPM (Total Productive Maintenance) as a factory management system the challenge of understanding, practicing, and transferring knowledge to the new members of the team according to the turnover. The synchronization among management, maintenance, and production when defective results in serious damages on a strategically level. This paper aims to analyze the biggest difficulties when synchronizing the areas as well as verifying if the problems start top-down or bottom-up. A survey has been used as a research method in order to evaluate the level of understanding and acknowledgment by the involved and it has been found that, in this specific team, the impacts (the positive as well as the negative ones) start in a bottom-up manner.