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CHAPTER 1
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background
In this study, it is clearly shown that the conditions of machine are the important term in manufacturing industry. Proper hands-on maintenance techniques provide increased
reliability and uptime for our injection molding machines. The common focus of this study is changed from fixing breakdowns machines to preventing them. The benefits of
Total Preventive Maintenance TPM come when companies transition from a fire- fighting mode of fixing one sudden breakdown after another to preventing those
breakdowns.
The research of this study involved the fundamentals of maintenance of Arburg 420C injection machine and the process which are related to the TPM concept. The main
focus of this study is focuses on TPM of Arburg 420C injection molding machine. The propose of this research is on the aspect need on maintenance of injection molding
machine such as daily maintenance, weekly maintenance, monthly maintenance and annually maintenance.
Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka UTeM as a university technical was establish since 2001 which involve in manufacturing also has use the Injection molding machine.
There are a injection molding machine model Arburg 420C has located at Casting Laboratory at FKP laboratory since establish. Here the student will operate this machine
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were use the injection molding machines in their course, so the frequency of use this machine is very high. In this situation, the maintenance action is very important to avoid
the breakdown problem from happened to the machine. There have Preventive Maintenance, Breakdown Maintenance and Corrective Maintenance had been
implement in this lab, but the shown the poor result of maintenance and not implement systematic. So the solution is to implement of TPM programme to the Arburg 420C
injection molding machine at casting laboratory. This project will define TPM in some detail, evaluate its strengths and weaknesses as a maintenance philosophy, and discuss
implementation procedures. Examples of successfully implemented programs will be presented.
1.2 Problem Statement
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