Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Lean & Six Sigma Excellence Awards’08 (India)

The 2 day "Lean & Six Sigma Excellence Awards’08" was held on 10th & 11th October 2008.This was organized by Symbiosis Centre for Management & Human Resource Development (SCMHRD) in association with Sakaal Media Group & Minitab. Eleven eminent persons from field of Six Sigma, Quality & Statistics were in the panel of Juries. This National level event is considered as one of the prestigious competition in the field of Six Sigma.
More than 100 projects from 75 companies, participated under 3 categories of Six Sigma (DMAIC, DFSS & LEAN). SKF forwarded 2 projects to the competition.
We feel glad to share that both the projects got short listed in the final round of competition.
Project 1: Reduction of Shop Supplies consumption of all TRB Channels from 8 % of Delivery value to 6.4 % of Delivery value & HBU Channel from 15 % of Delivery value to 8 % of Delivery value - presented by Black Belt - Manjunath K N (ABU Dept), Sponsor - Shrikant Savangikar (Factory Manager-ABU), & Master Black Belt Nitin Ghatpande.
Project 2: Net Output Improvement from 23.27 k/day bearings to 30 k/day bearings in 6205 type and 19.5 k/day to 30 k /day in 6004 type in CH-6 – presented by Black Belt Sudhir Chougule (ETW – DGBB B), Process Owner - Jnanesh N (DGBB-B Ch 6), & Master Black Belt Nitin Ghatpande.
In extremely tough competition our ABU Team bagged "Lean & Six Sigma Excellence Award" under DMAIC Support category.
We congratulate Manjunath, Shrikant & Nitin for their achievement.
We also will like to appreciate entire project team for their involvement and support during the project. The team includes - K S Kulkarni,Prashant Hande,Jayawant Mate,Pradeep,Chandrashekar, Kolurkar,Anil C Patki,Santosh,Yogesh P,Anjali Bhat & Kishor M.

3 comments:

Kishore Bodapati said...

1. Congrats Kishore:
Greg Schlegel...VP Bus Devlp for SherTrack LLC. We support LSS Teams during DMAIC projects in Supply Chain & Complex manufacturing with Digital Modeling, Discrete-event Simulation and DOE methods.
We've been talking with LSS SKF Champions from Sweden, Mats Holm & Christoph Remmert.

Wondering If you know them?
Congrats again on awards and keep the Lean/Six Sigma moving forward!
Cheers
Greg
gschlegel@ shertrack.com
www.shertrack.com
By
Greg Schlegel Multi-Industry Executive Consultant and Supply Chain Professional
posted 6 days ago

2. Dear Kishore,

Pleased to see this achievement. time to celebrate the success.
convey my wishes to all stakeholders.

rgds

ganesan
By
Ganesan nagaraj Senior manager - QSE at Vestas India
posted 1 day ago

3.Dear Kishore,
Congratulations to your teams and your company for being supportive to share the projects. Keep up the great work!
Sincerely,
Floyd Yocum
Business Transformation Leader
By
Floyd Yocum Business Excellence Leader
posted 12 hours ago

ramaswamikv said...

What did the competition do?
Why do you think you won?
Did firms "prepare" for these kind of events or did it come naturally?

Kishore Bodapati said...

1) What did the competition do?
Best practice sharing of different industries
Use of six sigma methodology for problem solving and learn from other companies.
Six sigma deployment patterns across the industry.
2) Why do you think you won?
The award winning project satisfied all the requirement to qualify as a best within nominations.
3) Did firms "prepare" for these kind of events or did it come naturally?
Yes, they use this platform for promoting their brand,attract new talent and so on.

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