The document discusses the concept of "Hinshitsu-Hozen" or quality maintenance in TPM. It aims to maintain integrity of quality through condition setting, inspections, quality preventive maintenance, trend control and predictive maintenance. Key aspects covered include understanding defect phenomena, preparing a QA matrix to relate defects to processes, analyzing equipment and process conditions, conducting why-why analysis and taking countermeasures to improve quality. The last part presents a sample QM matrix to relate component malfunctions to defect modes on the product.