What is the need of Total productive maintenance (TPM) in a manufacturing company

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• 1. What is the need of Total productive
  maintenance (TPM) in a manufacturing company?
  Select any manufacturing company of your choice,
  and do a detailed study of its TPM process. 
• 2. Michael Porter in 1985 in his book,
  "Competitive Advantage Creating and Sustaining
  Superior Performance" proposed three generic
  strategies of cost leadership, differentiation,
  and focus. Select any Indian company and explain
  how it has implemented the Porters generic
  strategies. 

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• 3. Activity-based costing (ABC) has helped many
  companies for decades gain a true understanding
  of their costs to produce and distribute products
  to customers. ABC provides a precise, accurate
  view of costs at very granular levelsnamely, at
  the individual product, service and customer
  level. Successes during the 1980s in applying ABC
  methods to manufacturing prompted an eventual
  expansion of this methodology to other key
  components of the supply chain (e.g.,
  distribution). Manufacturers such as Proctor
  Gamble and Warner-Lambert began using ABC models
  to determine their overall costs to serve
  individual customers (e.g., Walmart), and to
  evaluate the costs of offering different
  individual services to customers (e.g., services
  such as vendor-managed inventory and advanced
  shipment notices, or ASNs). (Source Miller, B.
  T. The ABCs of Activity-Based Costing for
  Logistics.)

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• a. What is ABC and how is it different
  from the traditional costing methods? 
• b. Using suitable examples, explain the
  important factors for selecting the cost drivers
  in ABC.

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