BHEL to form quality circles at supervisor and executive level
Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) has initiated
measures to form quality circles at the levels of supervisors and
executives, Chairman and Managing Director B.Prasada Rao informed on
Thursday.
Though they are already involved indirectly
in the quality circle movement through guidance, quality circles for
officials will help in discussion of higher level of issues, Mr.Prasada
Rao said inaugurating the 23 BHEL Annual Quality Circle Summit 2012
here. Enhancing productivity by increasing quality standards was vital
for right pricing of products to sustain in a competitive scenario. “We
must keep working on optimisation of cost, and talk, think and perform
quality.” BHEL was continuously improving technology, he said,
justifying the company’s high expenditure on research and development.
Top technology must be developed indigenously as no country would part
with its current technology, Mr.Prasada Rao explained.
Quality
being all-pervasive, sequential delivery of products requires
attention. Right from designing to commissioning, even a single aspect
of quality cannot be ignored, he said, inviting the attention of
employees to the difficult phase BHEL was in at present after expanding
capacity to 20,000 MW. Fortunately, customers who had earlier patronised
Chinese equipment were coming back to BHEL. It was the responsibility
of employees to take the company’s brand value to a higher level. Ideas
generated by quality circles must be implemented down the years across
the units, he emphasised.
In his key note address,
the executive director of BHEL Tiruchi A.V.Krishnan said the company has
already demonstrated its high quality products globally, and was a step
ahead in competition. Calling for physical, emotional and intellectual
involvement of employees, he felt certain that the Quality Circle
Movement will serve as a platform to perform better. Mr. Krishnan saw an
augury for making quality a way of life at workplace in the increasing
interest of younger generation in Quality Circle movement, and the
prizes they have been winning.
Presenting an
overview of Quality Circle Movement, Anuj Bhatnagar, General Manager /
Corp. Quality, said in three decades time, the number of Quality Circles
in BHEL has reached 1200 accounting for 9,000 plus employees. The
movement was a platform for value addition through higher productivity
and quality. This year, four units of BHEL won four laurels – three gold
medals and one sliver – in the annual International Quality Circle
convention. Newly instituted CMD Trophy was won by the High Pressure
Boiler Plant, Tiruchi Complex.
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