TPM has been implemented in Japan since the 1970’s with over a thousand companies involved now.  It made its way to the United States in 1985-86 through Tennessee Eastman, a division of Kodak, and Baxter-Travenol (now Baxter Healthcare).  

Increasingly, more U.S. companies are seeing the value of TPM (TPM is basically another name for TPM) and have adopted it.  3M, Quaker Oats, Timken, Corning, Proctor and Gamble, Westinghouse, Lever Brothers, DuPont, Milliken, Texas Instruments, Motorola, GM, Exxon, and Ford are just a few such companies.