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WINNERS OF THE QUALITY CIRCLE
COMPETITION FOR 2006 - 07
NATIONAL WINNERS
Position Name of QC Team Company Name
First Lupinus Sundaram Auto Components Ltd., Hosur
Second Magic Delphi-TVS Diesel Systems Ltd., Chennai
Third Newton Rico Auto Industries Ltd., Gurgaon
Position Name of QC Team Company Name
First Utsah Motherson Sumi Systems Ltd., Noida
Second Lakshya Minda Corporation Ltd., Noida
Third Newton Rico Auto Industries Ltd., Gurgaon
Third Tiger Asahi India Glass Ltd., Rewari
First Lupinus Sundaram Auto Components Ltd., Hosur
Second Magic Delphi-TVS Diesel Systems Ltd., Chennai
Third Vikasa Rane Madras Ltd., Mysore
First Prajakta Harita Seating Systems Ltd., Pune
Second Patang Jaya Hind Industries Ltd., Pune
Third Rajgarh Kirloskar Oil Engines Ltd., Ahmednagar
Third Achievement Tata Yazaki Autocomp Ltd., Pune
REGIONAL WINNERS
Northern Region
Southern Region
Western Region
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The ACMA Quality Circle Competitions
Over the years, training and development of skills has emerged as a critical requirement for the Auto-Component
Industry in its current high growth phase. The industry has taken many initiatives in this direction, some of which are firm
level steps and some are industry-level initiatives taken through ACMA.
One of the most important initiatives taken by ACMA is to involve the Shop-Floor Associates in the Quality Circle
Movement. ACMA and ACT organized QC Competitions at the Regional and National Level with the objective of
bringing Organizational Development through Total Employees Involvement, by promoting Team Building and problem
solving skills at the Grass Root Level.
All the Regional QC Circle Competitions have been successfully held in the Northern, Southern and Western Regions.
Total 102 teams participated at the regional level competitions. The 2nd National QC Competition was held on 10th
August, 2007 in New Delhi wherein the winners of the Regional Competitions participated for the 1st, 2nd and 3rd
Positions at the National Level.
An eminent Jury comprising of experts from OEMs and QCFI adjudged the presentations made by all the QC Teams in
the National Competition. The Jury comprised of Mr. M. Muthuraj, Senior Vice President Operations, TVS Motor
Company Ltd., Mr. Bharat Rajadhyaksha, General Manager (TQM), Force Motors Ltd., Mr. A. K. Verma, Asstt. General
Manager, Hero Honda Motors Ltd., & Mr. Mahendra Aggarwal, Director, QCFI.
Dr. Krishan Kumar, Director, Maruti Centre for Excellence, was present as the Chief Guest. He also graced the occasion
and distributed the trophies to the winning teams. A brief summary of the top three award winning QC Circles at the
National level is as follows:-
LUPINUS QC Group Team Members are:
To recognize the outstanding contribution of the Associates, the QC Team who won the First Position at the National QC Competition will be awarded the Trophy by the Chief Guest at the Awards distribution ceremony of ACMA Annual Session.
Mr. R. Palvannan- Member
Mr. V. Bhaskar Reddy- Member
Mr. Vijaya Kumar P- Facilitator
Mr. R. Venkataramanan- Team Leader
Mr. M. Muniraju- Member
Mr. V.V. Srinivasan- Member
Winner
'LUPINUS' Quality Circle from Sundaram
Auto Components Ltd., Hosur
Sundaram Auto Components Ltd. is a TVS /
Sundaram Clayton group of company and
manufactures precision injection molded Plastic
Components for Automobiles.
The problem selected by the QC team was
“Reduction in High Breakdown Occurrence in
SM Series Molding Machines”. Total no. of
breakdown occurrence reported in the year
2005-06 were 323 which finally got reduced to
52 in the year 2006-07, which amounts to 84%
reduction in total machine breakdown.
Various QC tools like Pareto Analysis, Cause &
Effect Diagram and Scatter Diagram were used
extensively to find out the root cause of the
failures. Poka-Yoke and Horizontal Deployment
were applied to prevent the occurrence of the
defects.Cost saving achieved was Rs. 2.59 Lacs
/Annum by elimination of start-up rejection due
to power failure and increasing the availability
of machines for production.
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MAGIC QC Group Team Members are:Mr. S. Raja -Team LeaderMr. S. Gokulakrishnan - Member Mr. S.N. Parthasarathi- Member
Mr. K. Nanda Kishore- MemberMr. L. Navaneetha Krishnan-MemberMr. S. Hariharan- Facilitator
NEWTON QC Group Team Members are:Ms. Pushpa Bisht - LeaderMs. Monika Jindal- Dy. LeaderMr. Nitin Bharadwaj - Member
Ms. Vikky Chauhan - MemberMs. Anjum- MemberMr. Jayarama Pradhan- Facilitator
1st Runner Up'MAGIC' Quality Circle from Delphi-TVS Diesel Systems Ltd., Chennai
Delphi TVS is a joint venture between Delphi Automotive Systems, USA and T V Sundaram Iyengar & Sons, India. The Company is one the largest manufacturers of Rotary Fuel Injection Equipment in India.
The problem of low OEE of Parishudh Grinding machine was selected by QC Team for the improvement through Brainstorming & Pareto Analysis.
Team has used various QC tools like Cause and Effect Diagram, Histogram and Control Charts to arrive at the root cause of the problem and the controls thereof.
Overall equipment efficiency 74.81% has gone up to 88%. Other benefits like Setup Change Over Time has also got reduced from 4859 minutes to 125 minutes. Finally group succeeded in meeting the customer demand from same equipment.
2nd Runner Up
Rico Auto is one of the known manufacturer of Pressure Die-Casting & machining parts, supplying to major OEMs in India and abroad.
Newton QC circle of Rico Auto has selected the problem of high rejection due to Over Flatness in Rear Cover 7231 which results into the leakage from the Cylinder Block.
QC tools used to find out the root cause for the problem are Cause and Effect diagram, Pareto Analysis and Histogram.
Rejection because of over flatness got reduced from 6000 PPM to 0 PPM which has resulted in cost saving of Rs. 2,70,000/- per annum.
'NEWTON' Quality Circle from Rico Auto Industries Ltd., Gurgaon
The Jury ……………..
Dr. Krishan KumarChief Guest
Mr. Mahendra AggarwalMember
Mr. A.K. VermaMember
Mr. Bharat RajadhyakshaMember
Mr. M. MuthurajMember
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Regional Award WinnersRegional Award WinnersNR
SR
Utsah Motherson Sumi Systems Ltd., Noida
Lupinus Sundaram Auto Components Ltd., Hosur
WR Prajakta Harita Seating Systems Ltd., Pune
Separate category for SMEs & Non SMEs from the year 2007-08. Equal opportunity to win Trophies at Regional/National level.
Good News for SMEs
NR-Utsah from Motherson Sumi Ltd., Noida
SR-Lupinus from Sundaram Auto Components Ltd., Hosur
WR-Prajakta from Harita Seating Systems Ltd., Pune
UTSAH TEAM
LUPINUS TEAM PRAJAKTA TEAM