Development of Inventory Management System in a Total Productive Maintenance Environment

Implementation of Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) is increasingly being seen as a suitable initiative or technique for effectively involving the workforce in manufacturing based organizations to increase productivity with the support of both effective and efficient maintenance works as well as...

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Main Author: Lim, Benedict Chin Khian
Format: Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2004
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Online Access:http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/5909/1/FK_2004_26%20IR.pdf
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spelling my-upm-ir.59092022-02-04T02:04:04Z Development of Inventory Management System in a Total Productive Maintenance Environment 2004-11 Lim, Benedict Chin Khian Implementation of Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) is increasingly being seen as a suitable initiative or technique for effectively involving the workforce in manufacturing based organizations to increase productivity with the support of both effective and efficient maintenance works as well as inventory management system. The aim of this research is concerned with the development of a computerize inventory management system using Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0. This improvement is to replace present manual paperwork procedure towards the implementation of TPM and IS014000. The proposed system attempts to achieve this by providing a database for parts information storage with search function, ability to record each inventory transactions in real time, calculating material requirement planning (MRP), create Bill Of Materials (BOM) and making purchase order (PO). This research also includes the evaluation of the system on real data from the company. The data shows that this system produced correct result and reduce the time spend on data searching by 80.4% or increase the manpower efficiency by 510%. These results show that this system can lead to increase the controllability and monitoring of inventory, and increase manpower efficiency. Total productive maintenance - Case studies Inventories 2004-11 Thesis http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/5909/ http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/5909/1/FK_2004_26%20IR.pdf text en public masters Universiti Putra Malaysia Total productive maintenance - Case studies Inventories Engineering Megat Ahmad, Megat Mohamad Hamdan
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Lim, Benedict Chin Khian
Development of Inventory Management System in a Total Productive Maintenance Environment
description Implementation of Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) is increasingly being seen as a suitable initiative or technique for effectively involving the workforce in manufacturing based organizations to increase productivity with the support of both effective and efficient maintenance works as well as inventory management system. The aim of this research is concerned with the development of a computerize inventory management system using Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0. This improvement is to replace present manual paperwork procedure towards the implementation of TPM and IS014000. The proposed system attempts to achieve this by providing a database for parts information storage with search function, ability to record each inventory transactions in real time, calculating material requirement planning (MRP), create Bill Of Materials (BOM) and making purchase order (PO). This research also includes the evaluation of the system on real data from the company. The data shows that this system produced correct result and reduce the time spend on data searching by 80.4% or increase the manpower efficiency by 510%. These results show that this system can lead to increase the controllability and monitoring of inventory, and increase manpower efficiency.
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title Development of Inventory Management System in a Total Productive Maintenance Environment
title_short Development of Inventory Management System in a Total Productive Maintenance Environment
title_full Development of Inventory Management System in a Total Productive Maintenance Environment
title_fullStr Development of Inventory Management System in a Total Productive Maintenance Environment
title_full_unstemmed Development of Inventory Management System in a Total Productive Maintenance Environment
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publishDate 2004
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