This book present the state of the art in Total Productive Maintainance
(TPM) and its benefits. The authors present a survey applied to 368
manufacturing industries in order to determine their level of execution
of TPM. Then a series of causal models are presented. For each model,
the authors present a measure of the dependency between the critical
success factors and the benefits obtained, allowing industry managers to
differentiate between essential and non-essential activities. The
content also allows students and academics to obtain a theoretical and
empirical basis on the importance of TPM as a lean manufacturing tool in
the context of industry 4.0.