The financial year has just ended. Indian Industry continues to pass through a turbulent time and economy at its low growing with a very slow space. The winds of change have been started in the country and we all hope & pray that the year 2014-15 may be the turning point for the country in general and economy, in particular.

At our QCFI Mumbai, the year ended with lot of excitement and achievements. Our 27th Annual Convention was most successful with record breaking participation and professionally managed event. The programs like “Members' Day” & “Asset Management Towards Zero Breakdown” were really unique, innovative and were appreciated by one & all. Similarly, the programs like Trainers Training, 5S Lead Auditors received very good response from our member organisations. We hope these programs will lead in creation of trainers & auditors within organisations and help them not only in sustaining but further enhancing the activities related to Quality Concepts.

During this year, we have started operating from our new own office and were finally successful in creating the permanent address after 27 years of our existence . NCQC 2013 at Kolkata was a mega event and was very well managed by Durgapur and Kolkata Chapters. During this convention, our chapter activities were once again appreciated and recognized by awarding three specials awards. RCF Ltd, one of esteemed customers and a great supporter was honored with Best PSU of the year, for successfully practicing the Quality Concepts. During the QCFI Annual General Meeting, Dr.R.C.Agrawal relinquished his office after very successful tenure and new team under the leadership of Dr. Ashok Mittal, as president, took over charge. In the first Board meeting, your Chairman, Mr.K.B.Bharati was nominated as Director on the QCFI Board.

On training front we are very fortunate that loyalty of esteemed customers like MDL , Naval Dock, RCF, M & M, Tata Steel, Tata Power, Mukand, Reliance, Kokuyo Camlin, to name a few, still continue and we are proud & happy to be associated with them as partner in their Journey Towards Excellence. While the old clients continue to have faith in us, we are happy to inform you the new organisations like Gulf Oil, Gargi, Portescape, Indian Railways, Everest Masala, Balmer Laurie, Aditya Birla group of companies and many more are in the process of becoming our esteemed customers.

Our yearly election process for electing the council members by rotation is in progress. I appeal to all the life members to exercise voting right to have the representative of your choice in the Governing Council of Mumbai Chapter.

In the coming quarter, we have planned Kaizen competition on 21st June 2014 and expect about 100 teams to participate in this event. We look forward for your active support to make this event a grand success. In the coming years, we have lot of plans like, to substantially increase our membership may be number one in the country, opening of sub chapters, conducting floated programs, our mega event -CCQC, where this year we expect to cross 300 mark of team participation, Quality Conclave, initiating bimonthly lecture series for the

The success of all these events was not an accident. It is a result of our attitude and our attitude is our choice. Hence, the success is matter of choice and not chance.

Volume I / Issue : 8January to March 2014

S. R. Pandey

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stReport on 21 Annual QC Convention - 2014 of RCF Ltd. Thal & Mumbai

RCF Ltd, Thal and Trombay units organized their 21st Annual Quality Convention on 10th & 15th February 2014 respectively.

The convention at Thal was inaugurated by their CMD, Mr.RG Rajan. Mr. KB Bharati, Chairman, Mumbai Chapter and Director, QCFI India, Mr. CM Britto, Director (Tech), Mr. Ashok Ghasghase, Director (Marketing), Mr. RK Jain, Executive Director (Thal Unit) and Mr. HCL Das, GM (Operations) &, GM (Quality), BHEL graced the inaugural function. The function was attended by RCF Ltd senior officials and union representatives.

Mr. RG Rajan, CMD, felicitated Chaitanya QC of Ammonia-Instrument and Ashwamedh QC of Bagging-Mechanical Department for completing 15 and 10 years of their journey. All the dignitaries addressed the gathering.

Mr. Jayant Malshe, Secretary QCFI Mumbai Chapter was a judge for evaluation of their case studies and presentations. During the valedictory and prize distribution function, the winning teams were awarded with trophies. Prakashjyot QC of Chemical Group of Plants –Electrical, Kshitij from HWP-Production were felicitated as Best QCs of the year and runner up respectively. All the other QCs were also appropriately honored with awards.

CMD Mr. RG Rajan inaugurating the convention.

The convention at Trombay was also inaugurated by their CMD, Mr.R.G.Rajan. Mr.K.B.Bharati, Chairman, Mumbai Chapter and Director, QCFI India, Mr.C.M.Britto, Director (Tech), Mr.Ashok Ghasghase, Director (Marketing), Mr.Abir Banerjee, Executive Director & QC Steering Committee Chief (Trombay Unit) & Mr.R.K.Jain, Executive Director (Thal Unit) graced the inaugural function. The function was attended by RCF Ltd. senior officials, QC Leaders, Facilitators, union representatives and QCFI Mumbai chapter council members.

Mr. Abir Banerjee presented performance report for the year 2013-14. He appreciated the fine work done by their QCs in the last 25 years, including performance at Chapter, National and International levels. All the other dignitaries also addressed the gathering and delivered inspiring speeches. They expressed happiness on the contribution of QC movement towards enhancing the participative culture in the organization.

Mr. RG Rajan felicitated teams which had completed 10, 15 and 20 years of their journey in the organization and congratulated them for winning cheers and laurels at different conventions. He assured support from top management for enhancing the growth of QC movement in coming years. Mr. KB Bharati congratulated both RCF Management and all employees for organizing the prestigious event on a grand scale.

Mr.K.B.Bharati addressing a gathering

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benefit of all members and many more. The task ahead is difficult but not impossible, since we believe,

I have faith in all of you that it is possible and will happen.

Happy readings !!

Wishing you a happy and prosperous new financial year.

K.B.Bharati

Two day National Seminar on Asset Management Towards Zero Breakdown

Chapter Activities

QCFI Mumbai Chapter, in collaboration with RCF Ltd, Trombay Unit, organized two day National Seminar on Asset Management Towards Zero Breakdown on 21st and 22nd February, 2014. Sixty delegates from Public and Private Sector Units participated in this seminar.

The seminar was inaugurated by Mr. HS Karangale, Director general of the Indian Chemical Council (ICC) In his brief inaugural address, Mr. Karangale emphasized the need to manage the asset management like human, knowledge, intelligence etc. apart from usual work equipments and machines. He said, management in the past was looked upon as “crisis management”; today the concept has changed

to planning, study of history, acquisition and strategies. He further said, collective efforts and involvement of all concerned departments such as operations, materials, finance etc will help us achieve our objective towards zero breakdown.

Six eminent speakers – Mr. Anantha Subramaniam (Associate Director, Frost and Sullivan), Mr. Abir Banerjee, Executive Director, RCF Trombay Unit, Mr. AS Kashikar, GM (Maint), RCF Ltd, Mr. Rajendra Potdar, CEO and Founder, MABEC, Dr. Dibyenddu De, Director, Reliance Management Consultants Pvt Ltd, Mr. Jitendra Malhotra, General Manager (Business excellence) Aditya Birla Group, Mr.Harshad Chhaya, Director, Business Development, IRD, Mechanalysis Ltd, Mr. Ajay Agarwal, Senior Advisor, Shell India Markets pvt. Ltd and Dr. Tarapada Pyne, Head, RCF, JSW Ltd presented technical papers. Their presentations received thunderous applause from the participants. There was a Panel discussion on Centralized Maintenance and Decentralized Maintenance. Knowledge sharing in this was precise and precision. Participants were enthused in sharing their queries and getting them addressed through the learned speakers.

During the question-answer session and panel discussion, the speakers addressed a number queries from the audience.

Out of three case studies presented, the Best Case study award was presented to Mr Bani Mukherjee of Bokaro Steel Plant.

During the concluding session, some of the participants from Bokaro Steel, Vedanta , Uttam Galva, century Rayon, Ruchi Soya ,IPCA , RCF Ltd , Kokuyo

Mr. HS Karangale, DG, ICC, delivering inaugural speech.

Camlin etc shared their views about the seminar and thanked QCFI for selecting topics that concerned their area of work. The tone and tenor of all was "BAHOT JAGAH SEMINAR ATTEND KIYA LEKIN ITANA ACCHA KAHI BHI NAHI THA." They were happy that they could derive a pool of knowledge

through this prestigious seminar.

Mr. Abir Banerjee also shared his views and complimented QCFI for their team work and for selecting excellent topics. Mr. KB Bharati, Chairman, QCFI Mumbai Chapter and Director, QCFI delivered concluding remarks. He thanked RCF Management & their volunteers for making the seminar successful. Mr. Jayant Malshe, Secretary, QCFI Mumbai Chapter compered two day seminar.

Views by eminent people about the Seminar

Very good evening! Congratulations for the grand success of the Asset Management event at RCF. Thanks for inviting me to be part

of the event. You had left no stone unturned in arrangement, hospitality and other moments of knowledge-sharing with so much

precision. I feel honored with this great event.

The seminar on Asset mgt:zero Breakdown was indeed a great success and I thoroughly enjoyed the seminar and your company. The program was nicely organized and my compliments to you all for yet another successful event. I always enjoy my association with QCFI, Mumbai Chapter.

Success of the seminar was the result of joint efforts of all the office bearers & volunteers of QCFI and the speakers. Seminar of

this nature requires considerable ground work and QCFI equally deserves the complements. I was delighted to attend the seminar and take this opportunity to thank QCFI for providing a platform to contribute to Maintenance Strategies in our own small way. With

best regards to you and TEAM QCFI

To achieve zero breakdown is the dream of all manufacturing units, which was the theme of the seminar, held at RCF Training center on 21st & 22nd Feb. 2014. I had the privilege to be the chairperson of one of the sessions & I thank QCFI Mumbai Chapter entire team & Mr Rajendra Potdar for giving this opportunity. Kudos to all of them for organizing excellent Seminar.

Dr. T. Pyne, JSW Ltd

SV Subramaniam (Session Chairman), VP, TQM Supreme Group

Harshad Chhaya, Executive Director, IRD Mechanalysis® Limited

S.N. Roy, Director, MABEC

Mr.A.Banerjee, ED & Mr.A.S.Kashikar, GM (Maint.) RCF Ltd., presenting their Paper.

Participants of Zero Breakdown Seminar.

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About life membership

QCFI is updating membership information of the life members to issue a renewed certificate of membership (like I card) and also update the data available with them. In view of this, it is requested that all the life members of QCFI Mumbai Chapter are requested to forward the following latest information:

1) Address for correspondence, email, phone (land line/mobile).

2) Date of birth

3) Your specimen signature and passport size photograph

Please also inform us whether you are getting QCFI & QCFI Mumbai Chapter journals regularly (Yes / No)

Please send the above information through mail – at your earliest.qcfimc@yahoo.co.in

Retreat Meet of QCFI was held at Shelter Beach Resort, near Mahabalipuram in Chennai on 22nd & 23rd March'14 to focus on Governing issues, future development activities of QCFI.

Directors of QCFI Board, Chapter chairmen/GC members from all chapters took part in the Meet and elaborately deliberated on various issues. The Retreat was first of its kind where all the directors and chapter representatives discussed on the various governance /administrative issues. Lots of new ideas/concepts were discussed for creating a brand of QCFI. In continuation of these deliberations, action plan is being made for executing the same.

QCFI Board Retreat

You are aware, Camlin Ltd, Lions Club of Tarapur and QCFI Mumbai Chapter have undertaken

Ideal School Project in Tarapur-Boisar villages, as a part of Corporate Social Responsibility. In this project, these three organizations work for upliftment of school children and improving standard of education. These organizations provide these schools stationery, fans, chairs, white boards, chappal stands by generating donations etc.

Mr.Vasant Dharap and Mr. Vijay Lad, council members of QCFI Mumbai Chapter visited the schools from time to time and counseled students, teaching staff on 5 S concept, organized small camps to improve discipline and personality development of the students. In this year, three times, evaluation of performance of the students was done and appropriate ranks were given to schools.

This year's school felicitation function was organized on 26th March, 2014, in Tarapur Industries Mfrs Association Hall. Mr. Rajanikant Shroff, renowned educationist, was invited as Chief Guest. Mr. Dashora, President of Lions Club of Tarapur, Mr. R V Gote, Chief Operating officer, Kokuyo Camlin, Mr. KB Bharati, Chairman, QCFi Mumbai chapter and Director, QCFI, Mr. Vilas Pimple, Block Education Officer graced the function. The function was also attended by principals of schools, teaching staff , parents and company representatives. All the speakers appreciated the contribution of QCFI Mumbai Chapter.

Mr. Ajit Rane, Sr.Manager (HD & Admn.) Kokuyo Camlin, welcomed the Chief Guest, dignitaries on the dias, audience and handed over session to Mr. Vijay Lad for compering the proceedings of the function.

Mr. Gote expressed satisfaction about the work carried out by Camlin Ltd, Lions Club and QCFI and congratulated schools for showing exemplary performance. He assured support from Kokuyo Camlin Management for continuing this activity in the years to come.

Mr. Bharati stressed the need for enhancement of education level of students and implementation of 5 S concept to achieve overall performance of the schools. He informed the dignitaries on the dias and audience that QCFI Board

Report on Ideal School Project

Dignitaries on the dias.

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members have appreciated efforts undertaken by Camlin Ltd, Lions Club and QCFI Mumbai Chapter and have conveyed their support to strengthen this CSR activity.

Mr.Dharap gave report of activities carried out during the year 2013-14 - experts' guidance for the Maths, Science, Marathi to SSC students and students appearing for scholarship examination, aptitude test to guide students to decide their career planning, sex education to girls to understand physical, mental and psychological changes taking place at the age of thirteen.

Besides these programs, tree plantation around the school premises was done to improve environment. Vaxination is done to Adiwasi primary school students. Teachers' visits to municipal schools at Mumbai were organized to know new method of effective teaching for students having different grasping levels in the same class. Counselling and guidance sessions were organized for teachers of 16 schools. 5 S guidance and its implementation was also imparted. For the year 2014-15, the same activities will continue. In addition to this, emotional control training will be included in this Project.

More schools in these areas have expressed their desire to join this Project. Parents have also expressed desire that this Project should be continue in the years to come.

In this function, certificates and trophies were awarded to each school as per performance.

Ms. Madhuri Vartak of Kokuyo Camlin and Mr. Vijay Lad compered the proceedings of the whole function very nicely.

Mr. KB Bharati addressing the gathering

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We deeply mourn the sad demise of

and who were life members of QCFI.was associated with a number of social

organizations. He was also member of the board of many

companies. He was Founder Chairman of AIM (Association

of Industries in Maharashtra). worked with

M&M Ltd. for many years. He used to come to our

conventions as a judge for evaluating case study

presentations. May their souls rest in peace.

CA Milind Agharkar

Mr. Vinod KolekarCA Agharkar

Mr. Kolekar

Condolence

Quality Circle Forum of India- Mumbai ChapterB/603, Oxford Chamber, Saki Vihar Road,

Andheri (E), Mumbai 400072Web: www.qcfimc.com

Tel: 28470479

Programme Convenor : S. S. PatankarMail: sspatankar@rcfltd.com, Mob: +91 93225 11947

Programme Co-ordinator: Sanjay PhalkeMail: phalke.sanjay@mahindra.com, Mob: +91 9004391654

For Correspondence & DetailsJaysing Kale , Office Administrator, QCFI, Mumbai Chapter

qcfimc@yahoo.co.in, Mobile :+91 8108119017

Registration Fees Rs. 4000 for a team of 2 members + 12.36 % Service taxRs. 2000 for additional member + 12.36 % Service tax

to be paid by Cheque/ DD in favour of QCFI Mumbai Chapter

Kaizen Competition: 21-6-2014

Quality Circle Forum of India – Mumbai Chapter

Objective:

has great pleasure in extending its warm welcome to all the institutional members and Individual members to participate in its Kaizen Competition. This unique event will be an excellent platform for presenting the best and innovative work done through Kaizen concept by various organizations. It will be unique opportunity for all of us to share and learn exclusively on Kaizen concept.

• To share knowledge amongst the Team members from different organizations.

• To provide recognition and encouragement to members of Kaizen teams.

• To learn and understand the practical aspects of Kaizen concept across the different organizations.

Who should participate:

• Organizations practicing Kaizen or about to launch the same.

• Organizations practicing other Quality Concepts and desirous to know about Kaizen.

• Students from Engineering college and Management Institutes

Introduction:

+91 22 28986238

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