Quality Circles help cut down Costs And Create Healthy Work Environment Sri PK Rath CMD RINL

Quality Circles help cut down Costs And Create Healthy Work Environment Sri PK Rath CMD RINL

Visakhapatnam: Sri PK Rath, CMD,RINL inaugurated the two day 19th Chapter Convention on Quality Concepts organized by Quality Circle Forum of India (QCFI) today in Visakhapatnam. The theme was “Quality concepts for cultural breakthrough”.
 
Speaking on this occasion, Sri PK Rath mentioned that a quality-focused culture creates a healthy work environment and leads to satisfied customers and to achieve this, quality concepts play a vital role in Total Quality Management and stressed the need to practice continuously by the organizations with total employee involvement. He said that over the last few years, quality and productivity have emerged as major areas of  focus for business and the main ingredients for quality culture are togetherness, host communication, access to information, focus on processes and doing best for improvement.
 
Sri Rath said that Quality circle is a unique tool for having an impact on productivity, quality, cost reduction, safety, customer satisfaction, team work and motivation and added that as employees are involved with problem-solving and overall improvement of the working process, quality circles represent bottom-up innovations in productivity management. He observed that continual improvement is one of the guiding philosophies that have contributed for the success and glory of many organizations. Besides financial benefits, quality circles and 5S teams contribute significantly in bringing participative work-culture and also towards  improved quality of work life for  the quality management.
 
Sri Rath said that RINL has been constantly encouraging on employee empowerment to enhance the quality of work life through participative fora  like QCs, 5S, Suggestion schemes etc. RINL has been consistent through implementation of several  QC projects every year setting a bench mark in the steel industry.  He called upon the  industries to see that more and more employees are involved in this movement of  Quality Circles, 5S etc. 
 
Sri KK Ghosh, Director (Projects) RINL - VSP & Chairman of Visakhapatnam Chapter welcomed the participants and highlighted the concept of quality movement and stressed the need to develop quality culture or mindset within the organization and integrate it throughout the company.  
 
Capt. Giri Prasad, GM,  Naval Dock Yard, Vice-Chairman  &  Hon. Secretary  of the body spoke on this occasion. Sri Madhusudhan Rao, Divis Director (Projects), Divis laboratory  participated as the guest of honor. Sri G Gandhi, DGM(CSR), VSP & Acting Secretary of the chapter explained about the programme details.
 
Chapter convention is an important event in the annual activities of QCFI as it acts as a prelude to the National Convention on Quality Circles held every year. This year, National Convention will be held in Varanasi during December 2019. The Quality Circle teams selected here will be participated at National level.
 
This year 93 teams consisting of 500 Quality Circle, 5S team members, facilitators & coordinators from 24 organizations  like Visakhapatnam Steel Plant, NTPC-Simhadri, Naval Dockyard, Naval Armament Depot ,Bhilai Steel Plant , , NTPC- Korba ,NTPC- Faridabad, JUSCO-Jamshedpur ,BEL Machilipatnam, RCF Mumbai  etc, are participating in the two day convention.
 
Various events like Case study presentations, Quiz competitions, crossword   competitions, seminar on convention theme etc are being organized during the two days. 

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