The top management of BHEl is giving thrust to quality of products and services in the face of stiff competition from multinationals and many initiatives have been taken in this direction. SR Prasad, Executive Director- Bhopal and Anuj Bhatnagar, ED (Corporate Quality) along with K Srikanthan, GM (Corporate Quality) and DK Dikshit, GM (Quality) reviewed quality aspects at BHEl Bhopal on Monday and Tuesday.
Prasad, while deliberating with General Managers and group quality heads, emphasized that the unit plays a very key role in promotion of quality and all efforts should be made at unit level to promote quality of products and services. The corporate vision of Quality was enunciated by Anuj Bhatnagar. The recent quality related initiatives taken at unit level including fortnightly Quality Review by ED- Bhopal, on-line systems for management of quality related data and job-card and docket-system approach were deliberated and were appreciated by Executive Director (Corporate Quality).
With a view to having competitive edge on quality front at manufacturing stage, Executive Director (Corporate Quality) and GM (Corporate Quality ) along with GM (Quality) visited the manufacturing shop of Hydro, Electrical Machines and Transformers products and held on the spot deliberations with General Managers and Heads of Departments of respective manufacturing blocks.
Due to slowdown in the national economy, the market has becomes more competitive and the top management is focusing on further reducing cost, improving delivery and quality of input material. The Corporate team held meeting with Material management representatives and deliberated on process flow from indenting to material receipt, acceptance process, quality appraisal and vendor development. The modified Vendor Performance Rating system was inaugurated by ED (Corporate Quality) on the occasion. The modifications in VPR system shall help in further promoting quality and delivery of incoming material as the rating is now based on every consignment supplied by vendor.
The Corporate team also deliberated with Heads of Engineering and Sales and Services departments on non-conformities management process. The roles and responsibilities pertaining to quality function were shared by Anurag Shukla, DGM (Business Excellence). Brajesh Agrawal, AGM (QCS, QAX) proposed vote of thanks.