INTRODUCTION
The concept of Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) has been introduced and developed by Japanese in 1971. This came in response to the maintenance and support problems in commercial factory. It is team-based preventive and productive maintenance and involves every level, from top executive to the floor operator. TPM has been proven to be successful for helping to increase the productivity and overall equipment effectiveness. TPM can be defined as a program for fundamental improvement of the maintenance functions in an organization, which involves its entire human resources. TPM philosophy requires the development of a preventative maintenance program for the life-cycle of the equipment and the involvement of operators in maintaining the equipment in order to maximize its overall efficiency and effectiveness. TPM is all about Total Plant Maintenance. The underlying concept is, if you properly maintain plant machinery there will see a sharp decline in machine breakdowns, safety and quality problems. There is emerging need for TPM implementation in the Indian Industry and need to develop TPM implementation practice and procedures Under TPM, machine operators carry out routine maintenance
such as checking water, oil, coolant, and air levels. This may involve some training of machine operators. Through operator training to do simple maintenance on machines will promote ownership and more attention to detail. The actual maintenance teams should as a result of spending less time doing routine maintenance is in a position to concentrate on more urgent machine breakdowns.