Total productive maintenance (TPM), is one of the practices most used by automotive companies, to increase their productivity, which is why this research is carried out in an automotive company validating this assumption, with the implementation of the TPM in a productive line and determining by means of an experiment design, if the TPM does not significantly affect the indicators of efficiency, waste, reliability of the equipment, because these indicators are important for the productivity of

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... he company. With this analysis it was possible to demonstrate, for this particular case, that the MPR tool does help improve two of the indicators, although this conclusion only applies to this company and the line in which said analysis was applied, under the conditions in which was evaluated the tool, so that this conclusion is more general, it has to be evaluated in other companies and to be able to make the comparison of the behavior in each of them.