The Bharat Aluminium Company limited (BAlCO) had organised the 8th Internal Convention on ‘Quality Circle’ and ‘Kaizen’ recently.
The participants of the Convention were honoured by Ramesh Nair, CEO & Whole-time Director, BAlCO, Deepak Prasad, Head-Aluminium Business and DK Patel, GM-Powe, a company Press release informed.
Ashutosh Dwivedi, Head-1,200 MW Power Plant and RK Dhancholia, Head-540 MW Power Plant were also present.
The officers gave their good wishes to the winners and to the participating teams. The programme was organised in the Alumina Canteen.
A total of 90 teams took part in the two-day Convention CPP-3 bagged the ‘Qualtech Champion Award’ for the best performing SBU. Five teams got the ‘Par Excellence’ award and 5 more teams got the ‘Excellence Award’ The winning teams for Quality Circle are: ‘First Shine’ — Team of Quality Assurance lab — 2. ‘Ablaze’, a Team of Rodding, ‘Niyantran, a Team of Pot Room Maintenance, ‘Be Positive’ Team of GAP and ‘Super Helpline’ a Team of Balco Hospital. The Teams honoured for Kaizen are: Rectifier-2’s team — ‘Improvement’, Mechanical Maintenance Team — FIT, Pot Room’s Maintenance Team-’Parivartan’, CPP (C&I) Operation’s Team — ‘Astha-1’ and ‘Ashtha-2’ a Team of CPP-2.
Amiya Ranjan Das of Pot Room’s ‘Niyantran’ Team got the ‘Quality Circle Smart Award’, Ashish Shukla of Pot Room’s Manthan Team won the ‘Quality Circle Addition Award’. Balco ladies Club’s Team — ‘Alpha” which took part in the Quality Circle Programme for the first time was honoured with a Special Recognition Award.
At present 131 Kaizen & QC Teams are active in Balco. Business excellence Team is working on a goal to increase this number to 250 by the end of 2016.
Quality Circles have been formed in various units of Balco to encourage the creativity and productivity amongst employees and contract workers. Quality Circle members are trained to identify problems and also solve them by use of 12 ways and 7 QC Tools. Kaizen’ is a Japanese term which means’ improvement’ or Change for Excellence’.
‘Kaizen’ System is considered as very important in the formation of long term competitive strategies by any organisation. Employees of all levels come together with a positive attitude and prepare strategies for achievement of goals and also implement the strategies. This enables continuous improvement in production processes.