Root Cause Analysis for Reducing Breakdowns in a Manufacturing Industry

Abstract – Now a days manufacturing industries are facing a greater competition in the market. Because of this, they try to improve and increase both quality and productivity continuously. One way to increase the productivity is to increase the availability of existing machines; Total productive maintenance aims to increase the availability of existing equipment so no further capital investment is needed. Availability of machines can be increased by reducing the downtime or Breakdowns of the machines. The main objective of this study is to find out the major breakdowns causing production losses to the company and to suggest counter measures by which these problems can be reduced. In the study a Root cause analysis is conducted to find the root cause of breakdowns and some parallel improvement opportunities were also identified for implementation so as to reduce the downtime.