Maintenance: From Total Productive Maintenance to World Class Maintenance

Literature on maintenance management practices evolution from total productive maintenance to worldclass maintenance has so far been very limited. This paper reviews a large number of papers in thisfield and suggests the retrospective growth in this field. Subsequently, the need of maintenance, TPMattributes with it’s different pillars, shortcoming of TPM are discussed in details then the world classmaintenance system with its components, modules, factors for success and how to implement the worldclass maintenance system in any industry are discussed. A survey of CMMS Implementation isdiscussed by considering factors affecting implementation success, important aspect of CMMSimplementation and benefits obtained from CMMS implementation. The paper provides manyreferences and case studies on maintenance management. It gives useful references for maintenancemanagement professionals and researchers working on maintenance management.