The management of the company observed that maintenance costs increased for 30-40 percent of the production costs and emergency repairs were three times more expensive then the same job done in pre-planned manner. Since the plant facilities and manufacturing processes were extremely equipment intensive and the data collection and analysis process revealed that the total idle time for the critical process equipment was observed to be extremely high which was not at all acceptable under the prevailing circumstances. Thus, the need for fostering an efficient TPM implementation program was felt fundamentally necessary