As a part of its Quality Month activity, the Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP) organised a ‘National Best Practices Competition’ to highlight and promote innovation and ingenuity in the application and implementation of good ideas which have served the needs well in one domain and can be applied to other domains as well.
The objective of the competition was to learn from each other and replicate best practices across the organisation to institutionalise them, a BSP press release stated here on Wednesday.
It may be noted that this is the third time in row that BSP is organising a ‘Best Practices Competition’. From being a competition that covered the BSP teams only during 2012, it graduated to the programme covering all SAIl units in 2013.
Notching up the level, BSP organised a ‘National Best Practices Competition’ in 2014, which was continued in 2015 too. The themes of the competition were Employee engagement and involvement, Identification and development of competencies, Communication, Safety and Environmental Practices, Process Orientation and Enterprise Process Mapping.
In all, a total of 13 teams participated. Of these 7 teams were from Bhilai Steel Plant and 6 Teams were from other organisations like BSl, ISP, DSP, RDCIS Ranchi, SRU Bhilai and NSPCl Bhilai.
DA lothe, exGM (MM), BSP, RK Tewary, GM (M&CS), BSP and Sumita Dave, from Amity College formed the Panel of Judges for the competition held at Main Assembly Hall on November 28.
Best Practices spanning from “Unique CSR initiative Of the Rail & Structural Department – Bringing ‘Muskaan’ to the children of ‘Muskaan’ ”, “Collaborative approach towards Material Planning”, “Utilisation of Si-Mn fines in Converter”, “Prevention of VVFD drive failures by systematic maintenance practices”, to “Innovation Scheme” were presented.
The presentation and the abstract submitted by the teams were adjudged on the basis of Background/reasons/triggers for initiating the practices including any survey or analysis recorded, Impact of the practices on the working of the organisation including benefits (tangible or intangible achieved), Innovativeness of the approach/practices started, learning from the practices and ability to be replicated/review mechanism initiated or being planned to refine the approach and the presentation highlighting the various aspects of the best practices followed by 5 minutes Questions/Answer session.
Team comprising of Pankaj Puri and Kaushal Kumar Dewangan of RSM won the first prize for their practice “Unique CSR initiative Of the Rail & Structural Department – Bringing ‘Muskaan’ to the children of ‘Muskaan’ ”. The first prize consisted of prizes worth Rs 6000, trophies and certificates.
Team consisting of S Mandal from DSP who presented on “Innovation Scheme” won the second prize consisting of home prizes worth 4000, trophies and certificates.
Yatendra Kumar and Nitin Agnihotri of SMS2, BSP who presented the “Utilization of Si-Mn fines in Converter”, and Smriti Thapliyal and Tanu Priya from BSl who presented the “Collaborative approach towards Material Planning”, received the consolation prizes, which were token gifts. ED(P&A), lT Sherpa gave away the prizes for ‘Best Practices Competition’.