Facing the advent of knowledge economy in the 21st century, the competitive advantages for enterprises have been transformed from physical land, capital and labor to invisible knowledge. Knowledge has become the most important assets for business. Thus, knowledge management is the most important issue in the age of knowledge economy for enterprises.
TPM (Total Productive Maintenance) is based on Preventive Maintenance (PM) system from U.S. PM was first introduced to Japan in 1950s to 1960s, and then transformed to TPM by being added with local notions and concepts. JIPM (Japan Institute of Plant Maintenance) started to promote TPM in Japan since 1971. After TPM was introduced to Taiwan in 1994, it¡¦s been remarkably aware that TPM improved enterprise effectiveness and strengthened the competitive advantages of business as a result of implementation by the enterprises.
Employees created amounts of knowledge to solve problems after the enterprise adopted TPM. It helps employees to improve the performance on their jobs. It seems that knowledge management activities are embedded in TPM but has not be evoked enough attention. This research explores the relationships between TPM and knowledge management activities by case study method. The findings present a result that the generation of knowledge is more obvious in TPM, but the repository of knowledge is needed to improve compared with processes of knowledge management activity. The research result may help to provide a concept as a reference for enterprises.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0731102-114448 |
| Date | 31 July 2002 |
| Creators | Lee, Bruce |
| Contributors | none, Hsiangchu Lai, none |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0731102-114448 |
| Rights | campus_withheld, Copyright information available at source archive |
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