Indian expert to speak at quality and productivity convention

Narasimhan Gopalakrishnan a Senior Consultant of the Kaizen Institute of India will present a paper on day one of the convention and will be the Guest Speaker at the Closing Ceremony and Award Presentation of the National Convention on Quality and Productivity organised by the Sri Lanka Association for the Advancement of Quality and Productivity (SLAAQP) to be held on two days, 23 and 24 March.

On day one he will speak on ‘Higher Plant Efficiency through the Autonomous Maintenance Pillar of Total Productive Maintenance’ (TPM). India is very advanced in TPM and has many companies which have been certified by the Japan Institute of Plant Management (JIPM) on TPM Excellence.

TPM is a method which originated in Japan, and which is believed to have contributed to the very low breakdown rates of machinery in Japanese factories.

In fact the birth of the culture of looking after your machinery with tender loving care is believed to have originated in Japan soon after World War Two when most of the factories were destroyed, and the remaining factories had to produce without interruption.

TPM has many pillars, and Autonomous Maintenance, where the operators themselves are trained in basic maintenance work, leaving the maintenance team to focus on major breakdowns is considered an important pillar.

There will be seven other presentations on day one as follows: MAS Intimate, Lean Enterprise Director Shri Skandaraj on ‘Productivity through Lean Transformation, a MAS Experience’.

Browns Group Senior Vice President and Hemas Manufacturing former Director Supply Chain Canisius Fernando on ‘The Award Winning Strategy: Case study of an FMCG’.

Piramal Glass Ceylon PLC Managing Director Sanjay Tiwari on ‘Manufacturing Excellence; The Experience of Piramal’. Ministry of Health Director (Organisation and Development Management) Dr. S. Sridharan on ‘Quality Assurance in the Health Ministry; The results and challenges’.

Trelleborg Lanka (Pvt) Ltd GM –Production and Systems Lasantha Wijeweera on ‘Productivity Enhancement through Lean and 5S; The experience of Trelleborg’.

Lanka Harness (Pvt) Ltd CEO Rohan Pallewatta on ‘Aculturisation as a Strategy to go Beyond Six Sigma; Lanka Harness Experience’.

Kelani Cables PLC CEO Mahinda Saranapala on ‘The Four Pillar Strategy for Manufacturing Excellence; The experience of Kelani Cables’.

On day two there will be 14 quality circles/CI team presentations. in the evening the closing ceremony and award presentation will take place.

At this function the keynote address will be delivered by Narasimhan Gopalakrishnan, and will be on ‘Performance Improvement in the Public Sector of India.’

The Chief Guest on this occasion will be Minister of Public Management Reform Navin Dissanayake.  Over 75 have registered for the Full Convention while there will be over 100 participants for day two.