TPM IMPLEMENTATION IMPACT ON COMPANIES? COMPETITIVITY IN THE MEDELLIN METROPOLITAN AND ANTIOQUIA?S EASTERN REGION, COLOMBIA

摘要

Best practices methodologies have been used by different companies as competitive growing tools in a globalized market. In Colombia, particularly in the Medellín Metropolitan Area (MMA) and Antioquia?s eastern region,; it can be noticed that total productive management (TPM) has been adopted as a competitive support tool. This article evaluates the TPM implementation impact on different competitiveness variables for the companies that are working on it at the AMVA and near easterly regions, finding that there is not a clear relationship between the improvements reached and the main returns, efficiency and even in the results obtained in key business indicators such as overall equipment effectiveness (OEE), failures (breakdowns) and throughput.