Quality circles help cut down costs: RINL CMD PK Rath

Visakhapatnam: RINL CMD PK Rath inaugurated the two-day 19th Chapter Convention on Quality Concepts organised by Quality Circle Forum of India (QCFI) on Thursday in Visakhapatnam. The theme of the event was "Quality concepts for Cultural breakthrough." Speaking on this occasion, PK Rath, CMD, RINL 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. Rath further said that quality circle is a unique tool for having an impact on productivity, quality, cost reduction, safety, customer satisfaction, teamwork and motivation and added that as employees are involved with the 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 to 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 quality management. 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 the implementation of several QC projects every year setting a benchmark 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.

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RINL's Director (Projects) KK Ghosh and 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. Madhusudhan Rao, Divis Director (Projects), Divis laboratory participated as the guest of honour. G Gandhi, DGM(CSR), VSP & Acting Secretary of the chapter explained 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, the National Convention will be held in Varanasi during December 2019.

The Quality Circle teams selected here will participate at the 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.

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