Identify two companies in unrelated industries that use TPM approaches to ensure reliability in the products or services that they sell, and in a 4- to 6-page Microsoft Word document, create a report responding to the following questions:
- What are the activities that they do under their TPM programs?
- What similarities do you notice between the approaches of the two companies? What differences do you identify?
- What is the importance of reliability in a production environment?
- Identify any elements of the 5S approach that you see in the TPM activities of the two companies.
Support your responses with examples.