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VISIT TO VISTEON INDIA, EMVIRONMENT MANAGEMENT
SYSTEM (ISO-14001): MARAIMALAI NAGAR, 29 NOVEMBER 2000
A 30 member delegation visited Visteon India. It is
the very first Auto Component unit, in India, to get
the ISO-14001 certification. The focus of the visit
was to bring first-hand exposure on the Environment
Management System-ISO 14001, to members of the Delegation.
At Visteon, presentations were made,
starting with an Introduction to ISO-14001 and on to
Elements and Implementation of ISO-14001. During the
Plant visit, members were exposed to the excellent Environment
Management System and the stringent safety measures
adopted by the Company. The System as well as the knowledge
of the Faculty on the subject was very impressive and
requests were made by Participants for more programmes
on ISO 14001.
SEMINAR ON IMPLEMENTATION OF
ISO 14001: CHENNAI, 28 DECEMBER 2000
In less than a month, responding to the request of Membership,
a second programme on Environment Management System,
was organised-this time on the "Implementation
of ISO 14001". Once again the faculty was Mr Anil
Kaul, Mr. Vairavan, and Mr. Pandey from Visteon India,
whose commitment to and knowledge of the subject (as
mentioned earlier) enthused enough members to pack,
not only a "full house" but also lament that
it was not a full day programme.
Visteon India has been more than generous in sharing
their success stories and experience with the ACMA Membership.
WORKSHOP ON POKA-YOKE: 10th JANUARY 2001, CHENNAI
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"Poka-Yoke"
translates into Human Error Prevention and aims
at simple and practical methods to eliminate defects
and errors in operation, which is usually owing
to human error or carelessness. Many of these
errors are due, not only, to attitudenal behaviour
but also often because the mind has not been applied
to ‘provide’, ‘make’,
‘modify’ arrangement to eliminate
these errors, thereby sustaining zero customer
complaint.
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To
give more insight on the subject, the Southern
Region Office organised a Workshop on Poka-Yoke
which received overwhelming response and many
last minute delegates had to be disappointed,
in view of limited seats. We would wish to inform
that further programmes on the subject will be
organised in Chennai and other Centres of the
Southern Region, giving another opportunity to
those who "missed the bus" earlier,
to attend subsequent Workshops. A second in the
series has already been organised in Bangalore
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The programme was conducted by Mr.
D Manivannan, Sr. Manager-TPM, Sundaram Clayton Ltd,
who shared his company’s experience in attempting
to bring about a new thought process, necessary for
a successful introduction of ‘Poka-Yoke"
which would rapidly eliminate customer complaints and
internal failures.
In his inaugural address, Mr. C Narasimhan,
Chairman ACMA (SR), mentioned that the customers, particularly
after the entry of global majors in the field, have
become very discerning in terms of quality, cost and
delivery (Quality = zero defects; Cost = reduction of
5% every year; and Delivery = on time, every time).
With competition from all quarters, mistakes would be
more than just costly but could be avoided through Poka-Yoke
thus doing away with rejections and complaints.
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