PT Komatsu Undercarriage Indonesia is facing tough heavy-duty equipment competition and to give optimum effort to attain business objective of “Providing Products that Satisfy Customers” by improving manufacturing competitiveness in quality and reliability.
Their objectives are to optimize current production capacity and to build a sustainable growing brand image so it can maintain its position as a market leader with a market share of above 45%.
Since 2013, PQM Consultants started to facilitate the Total Productive Maintenance, (TPM) implementation for 1 Model Machine in Forging and 15 Pilot Machines (including Machining and Assembly). The purpose of the TPM is to build an improvement culture (people awareness), physical machine transformation, and finally to improve the overall efficiency of the company. Some Kaizen and daily problem-solving initiatives have been done by employees and the standard maintained during Total Productive Maintenance Implementation, such as developing a basic mentality of employees, improving randori (quick change-over of dies), reducing downtime (guide cotter, heat exchanger, electromotors), reduce idle and stop time during door discharging or cool-water quenching, synchronize WIP supply between process.
