If the objective is maximizing the quality production by ensuring production machine availability and reducing machine breakdowns, which of the following lean tool will best work for this?
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Keep these direct associations in mind for Lean tool questions:
- Breakdowns + Availability $\rightarrow$ Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)
- Continuous Small Changes $\rightarrow$ Kaizen
- Workplace Organization + Layout $\rightarrow$ 5S / Visual Management
Look at what the objective is actually asking for, keeping machines running, cutting down breakdowns, and getting good quality output from those machines. Kaizen is about small continuous improvements everywhere, visual controls are about making status visible at a glance, and a control plan is about tracking dimensions and inspection points, none of these directly target machine health. Total Productive Maintenance, on the other hand, is built specifically around involving operators in day to day upkeep of equipment so that breakdowns are prevented and machine uptime and output quality both improve. So the tool that fits this objective is Total productive maintenance, option 4.
