By Pervez Bari, TwoCircles.net,
Bhopal: In Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited, (BHEL), Bhopal unit, a meeting chaired by Executive Director R. K. Singh, was held to review excellence initiatives in the Unit the other day. All General Managers, Additional General Managers, Business Excellence Leaders and Quality Circle Steering Committee members attended the programme.
During the interaction session, Singh emphasized on concerted effort for achieving business excellence. He stressed that team work is very essential in achieving higher goals. He emphasized on adoption of initiatives like 5-S, QTM and RCA in a much bigger way which can help the unit in building a good foundation for other initiatives. He emphasized on importance of ‘5-S’ and felt that it gives first impression about the factory and is the foundation building block for all other improvements.
A .K. Jain, GM (Corporate Quality) while reviewing excellence initiatives praised the efforts of the unit in areas like capacity augmentation, acquisition of state of art facilities, team-working, Quality Circle movement and the direction adopted by the unit in promoting business excellence. He visited Thermal, Hydro, Electrical Machines, TCB, TPTN and CIM shop floors along with Product Managers and Manufacturing Heads.
He held deliberations with Apex TQ taskforce team on promoting business excellence and also viewed presentations on ‘File Tracking system’ prepared by P. Kesharwani and his team, ‘Holistic Reward and Recognition Scheme’ made by V.K. Jain, AGM(PYX), and ‘Ón-line Vehicle Booking System’ and ‘Ón-line TA / LTC system’ made by D. Sen, AFM (IFX & Comm.).
Earlier, Prabhat Kumar, GM (P & D) in his address thanked Jain for reviewing shop floors and for suggesting improvements. In the end, K. Purswani, AGM (BEX & EC) thanked Jain for taking time out from his busy schedule for visiting and guiding the unit on excellence front.
Padmashree B. L. Chouksey, Engr (BEX) made a presentation on status of Quality Circles amidst declaration of hosting of next Inter-unit Quality Circle Convention by BHEL, Bhopal. ([email protected])