Mr PK Rath CMD of RINL inaugurated the two day 19th Chapter Convention on Quality Concepts organized by Quality Circle Forum of India in Visakhapatnam. The theme was Quality concepts for cultural breakthrough. Speaking on this occasion, Mr Rath 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.
Mr Rath said that Quality circle is a unique tool for having an impact on productivity, quality, cost reduction, safety, customer satisfaction, team work and motivation and added that as employees are involved with 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 for 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 the quality management.
He added 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 implementation of several QC projects every year setting a bench mark 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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