Singapore..A TPM Country....

I have been to many states in the USA from East to West and to many countries in Asia. I have been to Europe and to the Middle East. There is only one country that can parallel if not exceed Japan's orderliness, and poka yoke enforced discipline in the public systems. I am talking about 5S implementation on their public transport, public parks, Train and bus station, highways and streets.

Their tenement housing which are now called condominiums; which I believe they copied from the blueprint of Marcos'es planners are not degrading as much as what I saw in Taiwan and even in Hong Kong and Macau. They are well maintained and relatively clean.

There are no electric posts and no overhead wiring. There are no billboards and the grasses are always mowed. Public plazas are a sight to behold as if they are part of a well maintained golf course. Public toilets don't stink and have continuous supply of tissue paper. Though in some establishments you have to pay 20S$ to pee.

Those who want to implement 5S and TPM in their companies may well take their TPM 5S Coordinators and leaders in the streets of Singapore to see how a country , the whole country and its systems move and flow in 5S and TPM!

God bless us all!

TPM A Universal System

I met a friend through the internet and he is from India. He is very interested to learn and share in his beloved country the TPM System. We share the same desire. While he wants to spread it in India, I want to make sure it is proliferated here in the Philippines. The TPM does cut across boundaries and is not limited by culture or language.

TPM is universal and applicable to all nationalities, color, or creed. While it is originated in Japan, the system is simple and adaptable to and by any cultures. As long as the people search for a complete and total system to improve whatever business or activities they perform.

I am so excited to further cultivate the connections internationally so we can help spread the TPM System throughout the world.

God bless our dream!

Engineers with Experience on Electronics and Semicon Companies Needed

Hi Dear Friends,

I would like to let you know that Maxim in Gateway Business Park - General Trias Cavite, is looking for Managers and Engineers for their expansions. I am helping out in sourcing out potential candidates.

Salary is negotiable and is based on your capabilities and experience.

In as much as the compensation and benefits are confidential i am only allowed limited information For the salary the range will be higher than 10-20% of the current compensation and benefits package, said package may change depending upon the extensiveness of experience and competencies of the applicant.

Kindly require your referrals to attach their transcript of records (for Engineers and Supervisors only) and pertinent records on trainings and seminars and forward resume to my email richbenj.santiago@gmail.com.

After evaluation of their resume, they will be notified for the schedule of initial interview
Successfully placed applicant should be on board on or before end of June 2011.

Pls see the Vacancies required to be filled up and their job qualifications/requirements.

Thank you very much
Thanks and God Bless You!

Benj Santiago
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LIST OF JOB VACANCIES - MANAGERIAL POSITION
TEST SYSTEMS MANAGER
Responsibilities/Qualifications:
• Provide support to production in improving manufacturing measures including Availability and Cycle Time
• Maintains the tester/machines according to vendor or company specifications
• Interfaces with tester vendor on spares, repairs, upgrade and new purchases
• Capability to train and test quality systems engineers
• Develops candidates with other procedures processes or tools to improve systems performance
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Must be well versed on the fundamentals of electronics devices
• Ability to establish priorities, work independently and proceed with objectives
• Leadership Skills is a must
• Ability to manage and work technically at the same time

SECTION MANAGER FOR TMT TESTER CELL
Qualifications:
• Degree Electronics Engineering field
• 8-10 years experience in a semiconductor mfg environment
• Strong communication, cost management and leadership skills
• Highly Motivated, pro active and well organized
• With food technical knowledge on manufacturing final test
• Experience in production Management courses and seminars are also advisable

WAFERSORT MAINTENANCE SECTION MANAGER
• Degree/Diploma in Electrical, Electronics or Mechanical Engineering fields
• 8-10 years experience in a semiconductor wafer sort manufacturing environment
• Possess strong communication, cost management and leadership skills
• Highly motivated, proactive and well organized
• TPM history with other semiconductor sort company
• Candidates with other WLP/Bumped Die manufacturing experience is an advantage
• Background in probe card maintenance and selection is a must Management course and seminars are also advisable

RESOURCE CAPACITY PLANNING MANAGER
• Bachelor degree and MBA in Business, Operations or related field
• 12 years managing a large diverse, Planning or Supply Chain operation
• Guiding, directing and motivating a team
• Conflict resolution and negotiation techniques
• Knowledge of assembly and test manufacturing process
• Effective project management, analytical and written communication skills
• Proven track record of delivery, effective prioritization and decision making
• Working knowledge of MES/ERP systems
• Work well with various engineering disciplines including the production floor, shop personnel , vendors and internal customers
• Only self starters and leaders need apply


LIST OF JOB VACANCIES – ENGINEERS

SENIOR MECHANICAL ENGINEER (Supervisory Level)
Qualifications:
• Bachelors Degree in Mechanical Engineering, highly preferred EE, ECE degree
• Licensed Mechanical Engr, or Licensed EE or ECE highly preferred
• Minimum of 6 years or more in combined engineering practice gained from a semi con or electronics industry
• Proficient in suing solid works or related 3D CAD soft ware’s for design and its documentation
• Proficient in the use of Microsoft Office (Powerpoint, Word, Excel)
• Good reporting skills, able to communicate on all levels of people in the industry
• Experience in design for manufacturing and assembly
• Ability to use standard test and measuring equipment to quantify design margins and procedures
• Ability to handle simultaneous tasks in a fast environment
• Ability to communicate plan, projects and capabilities to management
• Project leadership experience

TEST PRODUCT ENGINEERS
Qualifications
• Graduate of BS ECE, EE, Material Science
• Semiconductor experience in the same capacity would be an advantage
• Knowledgeable in circuit/die level analysis
• Must have strong fundamentals in semiconductor physics
• Good communication skills

• FRESH GRADUATES WITH EXCELLENT SCHOLASTIC RECORD ARE WELCOME TO APPLY
PCB LAY OUT ENGINEERS
• Graduate of BS ECE or equivalent
• Preferably with experience in Cadence Allegro designing signal circuits
• Ability to establish priorities, work independently and proceed with objectives with minimal supervision
• Basic background on the fundamentals of electronics devices
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• FRESH GRADUATES WITH EXCELLENT SCHOLASTIC RECORD ARE WELCOME TO APPLY
TEST SYSTEMS ENGINEERS
• Graduate of BS ECE or EE or Computer Engineering
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Basic background on the fundamentals of electronics devices
• Ability to establish priorities, work independently and proceed with objectives with minimal supervision

• FRESH GRADUATES WITH EXCELLENT SCHOLASTIC RECORD ARE WELCOME TO APPLY
PROGRAMMER /ANALYST
• High level of proficiency with PHP and MYSQL, at least 5 years experience
• Must be an expert with PHP : Arrays, MYSQL DB access, reusable code, code optimization
• Must be expert with MYSQL: Joins, Indexing, Optimizing queries, Transactions
• At least 3 years experience with user interface design/mock up
• Knowledgeable in Linux command –line administration, preferably Ubuntu
• Basic AJAX proficiency

TPM Needs Leadership

Components for successful TPM includes among others, Total People Involvement, Total Management Commitment, TPM Leadership, and TPM Consultant.

Among this component, the most difficult to develop is TPM Leadership, and yet this is the most critical component in ensuring continuous, and relentless pursuit of TPM Activities.

Natural leaders, the Supervisors and Managers of each area are expected to take this role on their specific areas, but an Overall TPM Leader (or in some companies they call this as TPM Champion) needs either to emerge from among the leaders or be assigned by the Company President who is in fact the TPM Champion himself. So the one assigned will be his alter ego in the actual implementation of TPM.

Absence of this TPM Champion or weak leadership of the TPM Champion will surely delay or hamper the implementation of the TPM Activities in the factory. So check it out, is there a designated TPM Champion?

God bless!

TPM Promotes Patience , Orderliness, and Discipline

I have come across this article in the On-Line Inquirer.net. This typifies the Japanese culture that props them up amidst their triple whammy disaster of earthquake, tsunami, and radioactive leaks.

It is exactly what the TPM aims to achieve in the company. Companies may encounter difficulties or actual disasters such as fire, earthquake and whatever, or even disasters financially, or sales wise or maybe on the manufacturing operations or all of the above, but with TPM, surely, the company can easily prevent this to happen, and whenever it happens they can easily rise up and move on.

Please read on, this is really inspiring...

MANILA, Philippines—Like the super slow-moving classic Japanese Noh drama, the stoic behavior of the Japanese people as they grappled with the triple crises posed by a killer earthquake, a tsunami and a radioactive threat puzzled those not familiar with their culture.

Western media marveled that, amid the ruins in Fukushima, there was no looting or rioting. Survivors sheltered in evacuation centers politely lined up for water and food rations.

In Metropolitan Tokyo, people waited patiently for their turn to make telephone calls or board trains—no pushing, no shoving.

In various evacuation centers, survivors went to work to help themselves, with the assistance of government and nongovernment organization workers. Doctors, dentists and barbers, whose clinics and shops had been ravaged, gave free services to fellow survivors, according to news reports.

Repairmen fixed bicycles for free; local veterinarians donated cages for stressed-out pets; and high school students either put up signs saying “Gambarre, Nihon!” (Push on, Japan!) or did the laundry of evacuees, also for free.

Short on fuel, shuttle buses ferried people from evacuation center to evacuation center, various accounts said.

To give a semblance of normalcy, survivors walked their dogs while garbage in evacuation centers was segregated into biodegradable and nondegradable categories.

In the temporary shelters, available physical spaces were “divided” according to geographical neighborhood associations, complete with a representative from each neighborhood who takes up grievances with the proper authorities.

Stoic endurance

This orderliness or harmony (wa in Japanese) amid an unprecedented national emergency minimizes or prevents open conflicts.

Such conflicts are frowned upon by the Japanese who value their gaman (patience) and konjo, a Japanese word that combines “passive, stoic endurance” with “all-out drive to accomplish a goal.”

The explanation to this kind of discipline is to be found in the Japanese culture, which ostracizes people who disturb the fabric of social conformity and who are seen as wagamama (greedy).

Japanese values are inculcated in the people at an early age.

Power of perseverance

As a graduate student in Japan in the early 1990s, my non-Japanese classmates and I became familiar with the concept of konjo, which is basically a diligent, quiet and conscious effort (doryoku) to temper the spirit (seishin) in order to reach a goal, no matter how big or small.

In the present crisis, the Japanese people have collectively shown the power of patience and perseverance (gaman), orderliness and harmony (wa), passive, stoic endurance (konjo) and discipline.

This is the same stoicism and sense of self-sacrifice the Japanese people showed in surviving atomic bombings and numerous other calamities.

Country first

Three days after the March 11 disasters, I wrote that Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan did not mention the workers bravely battling the developing nuclear crisis in the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in his first nationally televised addressed following the calamities.

Fueled by gaman and konjo, the workers did not abandon their posts even if it seemed suicidal to go on. They showed another Japanese trait: putting first their country, community and group over their individual concerns.

Their family members did not go to the media to complain that their husbands and fathers were already at risk. They quietly accepted the fact that the workers simply had to accomplish their task of preventing a full nuclear meltdown regardless of the risks they faced.

To those who can read and write Japanese, it is interesting to note that the words society (shakai) and company (kaisha) are represented by two completely similar Japanese characters.

The web of ‘giri’

All of the above does not blur the fact the Japanese society and the Japanese people have numerous problems such as discrimination, bullying and corruption, both in the political and business arenas. But there is another forum to ventilate these problems.
Lastly, the polite refusal of the Japanese government to accept assistance during the equally devastating 1995 Kobe earthquake that killed 6,000 people also baffled the world, eliciting comments that it stemmed from Japanese arrogance.

The truth is: Japan’s cultural traits emphasize self-reliance, the obligation and duty to take care of one’s own, and the anxiety of causing trouble to strangers that may strain social relations.

There is also the fear that a Japanese who receives favors from strangers may be unable to return the favor someday. Once a Japanese starts receiving favors or gifts, he or she is caught in the complex web of giri (obligations).

It may surprise the non-Japanese but the ritual of giving and receiving favors, especially gifts, in Japan is governed by a complicated set of norms.

Hence, the decision of the Japanese government to allow the international community to ship donations, such as food, water and blankets following the March 11 tragedies, is a sign that Japan is indeed opening up.

But it can do more so that it will not be accused of being too proud.

(Editor’s Note: Ibarra C. Mateo is a Filipino journalist who worked for the Japanese Kyodo News agency from 1986 to 1992 and covered the presidency of Corazon C. Aquino from 1986 to 1992. He is the first Southeast Asian admitted to the Ph.D. in the Sociology program of the Jesuit-administered Sophia University in Tokyo. Now a freelance journalist living in Manila, Mateo lived in Tokyo from 1992 to 2002.)

TPM in Government Institution

Airports and Railway Stations are run by government and they are very good target for TPM Implementation. The basic 5S is almost complete.

So the next steps will just be focused on how to improve the efficiency and productivity of the institution and the team members.

I just hope somebody in the government realizes the need to do TPM as it is not solely applicable to private companies.

So if you are in government, whether local or national level, and you want to know more about TPM, just drop me an email. This will certainly help our government increase efficiency in service and reduce cost.

God bless!

TPM Means Never Ending Improvements

May companies search for one true and lasting program to encourage and motivate their employees to excel. Many consultancy companies abound offering the "eureka" to all the companies ailments. Along with the programs are expensive software and systems that gets outmoded.Some succeeds to find a program that works but does not last for long.

TPM is very simple approach in achieving a long term and long lasting improvements in the factory. It also harnesses the energies, creativity , and enthusiasm of all the employees of the company. What is even more impressive about TPM is that it does not only improve the factory performance . Itt also creates harmony, well being, and high morale among the employees. It is something that can be perpetually implemented and will never be outmoded regardless of the improvements in technology.

If you want Total and Never Ending Improvements...TPM is the way....

God bless!