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How To Customise TPM Implementation To Suit Your Organization Culture TPM was developed in Japan between 1950 to 1970.  Like  TQM ,  Lean  and  Six Sigma ,  TPM  also one of the proven strategies for  Operational Excellence .  Seiichi Nakajima is regarded as Guru of TPM. The Core of TPM is Machines and Equipments.  Some people called TPM as  Medical Science  for Machines. Similar to Lean, TQM and Six Sigma; TPM is also expanded beyond manufacturing Industry. Today even healthcare Industry, Hospitality Industry and Service Industries are exploring the possibilities of Integrating TPM in to their  Business Excellence Strategies . While more details on TPM are available in many websites and Wikipedia, the purpose of this blog is to provide our insights on how to make it work in different Countries, Industries and cultures. Managing Change  is a challenge from Centuries. One of the  TP...

Is Business Excellence Journey Sustainable The billion dollar question in Business Excellence Journey is,“is it sustainable”?. The next question that follows is, which is the best methodology?  TQM ,  TPM ,  LEAN ,  SIX SIGMA ,  TOC , AGILE, BPM?. After years of practical exposure of working with various  organization, we found the answer. We decided to share it with rest of the organizations. Seven Steps Business Transformation Systems  was founded about a decade ago with the mission of Making Excellence a Culture. We have developed a Seven Step methodology to achieve and sustain Excellence.Two major factors that play important role in sustaining  Business Excellence Journey  and its results are : Leadership and Culture. One of the great Business Gurus, Dr Edward Deming said “The secret of success is constancy of purpose”. If the Leadership believe in long term and aligns & integrates all Business strategi...

Creating Quality Culture in an Organization Quality is the result of collective effort of every employee in an organization. Quality cannot be achieved only through stringent quality control methods and use of sophisticated instruments or by highly competent quality department. Dr. Deming claims that 85 % of quality problems are created by people who never touch the product. Also quality cannot be achieved using flavor of the month approach. When individuals make quality as a habit, it becomes a culture at organization level. In this paper we are making an attempt to summarize traits of an organization where quality is a culture. 1: What is Quality Culture and how we measure it? During one of the plant visit, we entered their canteen and found beautiful visuals for keeping the used food plates, cups, waste food etc…And in practice most of the employees mixing cups and plates, partially clearing waste foods from plate etc… We came to a conclusion that thi...

TQM; TPM; LEAN; SIXSIGMA: What is the right strategy for my organization’s business excellence journey? Starting  Business Excellence journey  is a strategic decision for any organization. Once top management decides to take this journey, the immediate question arises is what is the approach? Where and how to start? Selection of right approach at the beginning is critical for the successful journey. Each organization is unique and challengers are unique. One solution does not fit other organizations and also same organization at different time periods. During the midway of the journey if organization realizes that the approach they are taking is wrong, they already lost lot of precious time! Also, it will confuse employees if organization changing the approach often. A study says less than 2 % companies sustain the  Business excellence journey  beyond 5 years. This is because of selecting wrong strategy or using Flavor of the month approac...