TPM implementation started with the selection of key model machines from
different areas and initiation of four activities – autonomous maintenance, preventive
maintenance, focused improvement and quality maintenance at these critical
production facilities. The responsibility for implementation and follow up of TPM
activities at each of the machines was attached to supervisors and engineers concerned
with that particular production activity area. The small group activities (SGA), the
driving force behind the TPM implementation, were then introduced at various
manufacturing areas in the plant with the production operators and executives at the
various levels and related with the different organization functions encouraged to form
the small group kaizen teams.