Analysis of the fall of TPM in companies

The search for interaction between maintenance and production has been of great intensity in the manufacturing industries. With the maintenance policy it is possible to enhance the productivity in a global way. In this sense, the most used methodology is total productive maintenance—TPM, with its sustainable pillars guide will create routines that enable that interaction. Companies may be classified in three ways regarding to TPM: the ones that really have the structured and working methodology; the ones who say they have it, but they do not have even the structured basic principles; and the ones who had already established the pillars but let this structure to fall serving its fragments only to satisfy the audit. This paper is about this third case, where the main factors that lead to the gradual abandonment of already reached levels of excellence of application of the TPM methodology is presented. For the analysis of the problem operators, maintenance people and managers involved in the productive process were heard. This document was elaborated based on these multiple visions.