Total productive maintenance, Kaizen Event, innovation performance in Malaysian Automotive Industry

Manufacturing processes must be implemented optimally to remain competitive in the current economic environment. The manufacturing process involves the maintenance of equipment and this is known as Total Productive Maintenance (TPM). TPM practices will impact on Innovation Performance (IP). The relationship between IP with TPM practice will be more effective if supported by other practices such as Kaizen Event (KE). The purpose of this paper is to identify the TPM and KE constructs to innovation performance measures for Malaysian automotive industry and also to develop research model of the TPM, KE and, IP measures relationship for Malaysian automotive industry. A conceptual model based on previous studies has been proposed. This model will be used to study the structural relationship between TPM, KE practices and IP for Malaysian automotive industry. Based on the proposed conceptual model and reviewed, research hypotheses are being developed. The paper culminates with suggested future research work.