Nakajima 1988 in Japan, which covers the entire life of equipment in every division including planning, manufacturing, and maintenance. It describes a
synergistic relationship among all organizational functions, but particularly between production and maintenance, for continuous improvement of product quality,
operational efficiency, capacity assurance and safety.
TPM aims to increase the availability and effectiveness of existing equipment in a given situation, through the effort of minimizing input improving and maintaining
equipment at optimal level to reduce its life cycle cost and the investment in human resources which results in better hardware utilization.
Currently in the Machine Shop at Faculty of Manufacturing Engineering, Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka UTeM has improved the maintenance system by
developing a checklist in order to keep the lathe machine from breakdown.
1.2 Problem Statement
Currently in the UTeM workshop which has lathe machine facing a major problem regarding on the maintenance activity especially on maintaining the machine and
prevent any breakdown.
In order to overcome this problem especially on maintaining the lathe machine a TPM spreadsheet is developed. It is necessary because the technician in the
laboratory can determine which machine needs to carried out maintenance work and to identified the machine that cause problems frequently.
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1.3 Objectives
The objective of this project is:-
1 Develop a Total Productive Maintenance spreadsheet for the lathe machine in UTeM laboratory especially at Faculty of Manufacturing
Engineering.
1.4 Scope
The scopes of this study are as follows:
1 The project just focusing on the lathe machine at the laboratory in the Faculty of Manufacturing Engineering.
2 This project is fully using the Visual Basic Application VBA in Excel 2003 to develop the spreadsheet.
1.5 Importance of the Project
The importances of the project are:
1 To study the current TPM method applied in the manufacturing industry 2 To identify the method used to carry out the maintenance in laboratory.
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1.6 Report outline
Chapter 1 explains about the introduction which consists of background, problem statement, objectives, scope and importance of the project. Chapter 2 is about
Literature Review that explains in detail about total productive maintenance, spreadsheets and lathe machine. Chapter 3 about Methodology which explain about
flow chart of project, flow chart of programming and step to develop of TPM software. Chapter 4 describe in depth about the process development of spreadsheet.
Chapter 5 will explain about the result and analysis from the spreadsheet that been developed. The outcome of the result will be used to analyze. Chapter 6 is about
discussion which will explain about the problem face and countermeasure during the developed of the spreadsheet. Chapter 7 is conclusion and recommendation which
described the overall project and stated the objective that achieved. Mover it also will discussed about the future recommendation which can improve the spreadsheet that
been developed.
1.7 Summary
