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VIZ-Steel employee initiatives are increasing the equipment efficiency
Owing to the introduction of initiatives, it was possible to decrease the cold rolling department equipment idle time.
VIZ-Steel (Company of NLMK Group) reviewed the results of the implementation of staff suggestions (initiatives) aimed at revealing the hidden reserves to improve the quality of products, increase equipment reliability and decrease the raw materials consumption in the first half of 2016.
Initiatives are one of the instruments of NLMK Production system in effect at VIZ-Steel. Any enterprise employee may make a suggestion regarding the improvement of working processes. In case the technical council approves the initiative, the author is entitled to receiving a cash bonus. If later the measure provides a positive economic effect, he or she will receive an additional material consideration.
The initiative system was introduced at the enterprise in 2013. As of today 137 suggestions were made, including 50 in the first half of 2016. Owing to the introduction of initiatives, it was possible to decrease the cold rolling department equipment idle time.
Employees of all departments participate in the development of initiatives. Maintenance and service department (MaSD) is one of the most active ones. In particular, the serviceman of MaSD heating equipment and industrial ventilation systems Pavel Bolshakov was the author of three initiatives aimed at increasing the equipment reliability in the current year. Thus, implementation of the suggestion, made by him together with his colleagues, on the delimitation of service areas of cooling devices of decarburizing annealing equipment between MaSD services will allow decreasing the equipment idle time.
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