A two-day workshop on ‘How to Improve Business Competitiveness through Kobetsu Kaizen (KK) Methodology of TPM (total productive maintenance)’ was organised at Career College of Management. It concluded here on Thursday, wherein various management aspirants participated.
Expert Abdul Wadood, Principal Counsellor and Head TPM Club India, CII Institute of Quality addressed the two day workshop. He is a senior TPM Consultant trained by JIPM, Japan.
During the workshop, the expert talked on the topics like defining and understanding what is a loss, understanding the 16 losses of TPM,
structured approach for
eliminating or minimizing these losses, Methodology for calculating overall equipment efficiency (OEE), loss tree and exercise, cost tree and exercise, cost loss matrix, theme matrix, Kaizens registration and Kaizen execution methodology.
During the workshop, experts said that the implementation of TPM in the true essence would increase financially 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.
Kobetsu Kaizen or the Focused Improvement pillar of TPM addresses types of losses with the activities that maximize the overall effectiveness of equipment, process and improve performance.He said that the Focused Improvement activity is a priority in the TPM development programme with activities performed by cross-functional team. During the workshop, not only students but manufacturing heads, engineering heads, managers and maintenance heads participated. A questionnaire was also held marking the conclusion of the workshop.