TPM practitioner certificate course

TPM, Total Productive Maintenance and Management is a business strategy which can transform a factory by developing existing people and equipment with innovative management strategies and total employee involvement throughout the enterprise.

Transforming a factory into an operation with an equipment-oriented management that is consistent with the changes in contemporary society is very important for survival in today's globalized, privatized and liberalized business world.

TPM Practitioner Certificate course was introduced in October 2009 hosted by JASTECA for the benefit of manufacturing industries and so far 120 TPM practitioners have been certified by JIPM accredited TPM instructor and Lean Management consultant Thilak Pushpakumara.

He was former plant manager Unilever Sri Lanka and former General Manager, Productivity Improvement and Training and Development at Loadstar. Currently he functions as the CEO, Institute of Lean Management.

He has a sound theoretical knowledge and hands on experience in TPM implementation at Unilever with Japanese experts and has exposure to overseas TPM implemented factories and trained manufacturing managers in Egypt, Pakistan, Bangladesh and China.

In Sri Lanka, very few companies have realized the importance of TPM and they continuously invest for TPM training. Certified TPM Practitioners represent leading organizations such as MAS Holdings, Omegaline, Ceylon Biscuits, Brandix, Ceylon Cold Stores, Fonterra Brands, Nestle, Premium Exports (Subsidiary of Unilever), Hemas, Atlas, Kelani Cables, Dankotuwa Porcelain, Midaya Ceramic, Hayleys Dipped products, LOLC, Lanka Brush, Vidul Lanka and Moratuwa University.

Inhouse courses were also conducted where MAS Active cluster and Avery Dennison Lanka, a fortune 500 company invested on a South Asian regional TPM Practitioner Course for the benefit of their operational staff.