Track: Reliability and Maintenance
Abstract
Apart from Reliability Centred Maintenance (RCM), Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) and World Class Maintenance (WCS) are the other two most popular inclusive maintenance strategies and they are broadly applied in the industrial settings. Some companies are currently applying TPM whilst others have opted for WCS or other variants of maintenance strategies. The underlying factors for selecting one of these two strategies need to be unveiled and the points of departure and similarities in these two strategies need to be exposed. A literature review approach was undertaken to analyse the basic tenets of the two strategies and ascertain their compatibility or immiscibility.