The Awareness of Lean Manufacturing Implemented Practices in SME in Sabah State: TQM And TPM Practices Approach

Abstract

This study aims to evaluate the awareness of implemented practices that already applied and the implementation of lean manufacturing practice of Total Quality Management (TQM) and Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) on Small Medium Enterprise (SME) companies in Sabah. Regarding the implementation of TQM and TPM practices of lean manufacturing, this study evaluates the awareness implementation of lean manufacturing practices TQM and TPM among manufacturing company located in Sabah before analyzing the respondent survey data. As to know better the awareness of TQM and TPM practices, a study of the awareness of lean manufacturing implemented practices was conducted which to identify the practices that already been implement and the pillars practices that highly and lowest implemented to the SME’s companies in term of TQM and TPM practices. The scope of this study has covered the manufacturing company of drinking manufacturing industry that is actively operating in Sabah, specifically on Small Medium Enterprise (SME) companies. The methodology used for the study was by survey questionnaire which contains open and closed ended questions, sent out to desired respondents. The outcomes of the analysed data were created using descriptive statistics by explaining the trends in dataset and Cronbach’s Alpha to test the internal reliability of the item. This study finds significant evident of the implementation of lean manufacturing and its practices among SME’s drinking manufacturing companies in Sabah, as well as the awareness implementation of lean manufacturing practices with a statistical value.

A Review of Sustainable Total Productive Maintenance (STPM)

“…Independent organizations began developing standards in the last decades of the 20th century to support the rise of Quality Management Systems (QMS); at the time, the concept of Total Quality Management (TQM) originated as an American response to Japan's quality revolution [124]. In the literature, TQM is often discussed with or without TPM or JIT in a framework of lean manufacturing or continuous improvement to achieve world-class manufacturing [23,35,37,41,[51][52][53][54][55][58][59][60][61][62][63][64][66][67][68][69][70]72,74,77,78,81,125], and the literature is inaccurate in encapsulating TQM and its country of origin (i.e., US or Japan) [115,126]. TQM is a company culture in which all employees actively participate in quality improvement [127].…”

Enhancing Lean Implementation in SMEs: Exploring Barriers and HRM Strategies

“…This situation highlights that SMEs with a shorter operational history lack fundamental knowledge about lean methodologies, and the prevailing concept in the survey is that of a toolkit for improving production. Furthermore, another study conducted on 31 SMEs in Sabah, Malaysia, revealed that approximately 74% of surveyed SMEs lack any type of knowledge or experience in lean methodologies, resulting in a significant lack of awareness about what Lean Manufacturing truly entails (Adzrie et al 2021). The absence of commitment at different organizational levels of SMEs was also identified as an additional barrier.…”

Impact of Lean Tools in the Supply Chain: Pharmaceutical Industry Perspective

“…TQM: As Adzrie et al [13] point out, this is a management system based on the principle that each member of staff must be committed to maintaining a high standard of work in all aspects of the business activity.…”