Mr. K S. Shetty, Vice Chairman, CII Puducherry State Council Welcomed the participants attending the session on Total Productive Maintenance (TPM). At the outset he mentioned that as part of the service to the Industry CII has taken up the initiative of organizing today’s Programme on “How to improve the Business Competitiveness through TPM approach” at Puducherry. Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) originated in Japan in 1971 as a method for improving machine availability through better utilization of maintenance and production resources. TPM being a Japanese concept is followed by most of the manufacturing industries today. He spoke about the YY Analysis, Energy Pillar, Energy Conservation, Prevent Breakdowns, Saving Energy, Root cause to prevent losses, Reduce down time and wastage losses.

Employees in every Industry are empowered to work in a very effective manner, which can be resulted in increase in productivity, could help as a tool to increase in growth of the industry thereby increase of sales turnover adding up to the Economy and the GDP. One way to think of TPM is "deterioration prevention": deterioration is what happens naturally to anything that is not "taken care of". For this reason many people refer to TPM as "total productive manufacturing" or "total process management". TPM is a proactive approach that essentially aims to identify issues as soon as possible and plan to prevent any issues before occurrence. One motto is "zero error, zero work-related accident, and zero loss". Implementation of TPM in the true essence would increase financially help both the top and the bottom line of any organisation.

One of the key essences of TPM is to eliminate the losses that are occurring in the organization there by incurring the bottom line. The losses are of 2 types; first those that are measured like the breakdowns, Quality defects etc and the second like setup and change over, Minor stoppages, lesser resources utilization etc which are generally missed. Kobetsu Kaizen or the Focused Improvement pillar of TPM addresses both these types of losses with the activities that maximize the overall effectiveness of equipment, process and plant through uncompromising elimination of 16 types of losses and improvement of performance.
 
Focused Improvement activity is a priority in the TPM development programme with activities performed by cross-functional team. These teams identify and design activities to eliminate / minimize the 16 losses, which are carefully measured and evaluated. With this introduction of TPM,he welcomed Mr K D Saravanan, Counsellor, Institute of Quality & Member of TPM Club India to conduct the session today and to bring awareness among all the participants from various industries, which could help in their respective industries to upgrade themselves.