The Company’s Tarapur Wire Plant and Flat Product Division have both been certified to ISO/TS 16949.

The certification for Flat Products Division was presented to it by Mr R A Venkatachalam, Managing Director, Underwriters Laboratories Incorporated (UL India) and was received by Mr B Muthuraman, Managing Director, Tata Steel. Also present at the function were Dr T Mukherjee, DMD, Steel, Mr H M Nerurkar, VP, Flat Products and Mr U K Chaturvedi, VP, Long Products.

Mr Partha Sengupta accepts the certificate for wire Division. The Flat Products certificate is accepted by Mr Muthuraman as Nerurkar looks on

The certificate for the Tarapur Plant was handed over to Mr Partha Sengupta, EIC, Wire Division by Mr Anil Rairikar,Chief Executive Officer and Member of the Board of TUV (India) Ltd at Tarapur.

The ISO/TS 16949 code is based on the requirements of ISO 9001:2000 systems and has been adopted by major auto companies in the world. It ensures many advantages such as organisational self-discipline, reduction in variability, reduction in non-conformities and cost saving as a result of less rejects.

The Tarapur Plant is among the first wire manufacturing plants in the country to be certified to ISO/TS 16949 to QS 9000 in September 2002.
 

A close bond between an esteemed customer and Tata Steel

Tata Steel completed the supply of 50,000 MT of Hot Rolled Steel (Cold Forming Grade) to Steel Strips Wheels Limited (SSWL) Chandigarh. SSWL is the third largest manufacturer of wheel rims in the Indian automotive market and has a world-class production facility, which produces about 2.5 million wheels per annum and caters to domestic auto giants such as Maruti and Tata Motors.

To celebrate this milestone, a function was organised at SSWL on February 19, 2004. Tata Steel was represented by Mr Ramesh Mani, Chief, Sales (Flat Products), who handed over a plaque on behalf of the Company to the Managing Director of SSWL, Mr Dheeraj Garg. The Company has been an Enterprise Account customer for Tata Steel, with a 100% share of spend since 1996. Mr Garg thanked Tata Steel for its continued support.
 

Knowledge Management now reaches out to the supervisors of the Company

After having successfully taken Knowledge Management to the officers of the Company, Tata Steel’s Knowledge Management Group launched “Aspire Knowledge Manthan” aimed at the supervisors and workmen.

The robustness of the Knowledge Management systems in place for the officers, whose needs are different from that of the workmen and supervisors, prompted the KM Group to develop a system for the latter.

While launching the programme, the chief guest and Deputy Managing Director, Steel, Dr T Mukherjee explained that “the purpose of this exercise is to give confidence to the people in performing their work better. This programme is the best means to assimilate knowledge and then disseminate it to a larger audience.” Also present at the function was Mr R B B Singh, President, Tata Workers’ Union.