Monday 1 August 2011

Quality Circle Forum of India - Madurai chapter:

Quality Circle Forum of India - Madurai chapter is one of the very active chapters of the forum. Madurai chapter was established in 1991 and has won best Chapter awards five times and won several other awards for various activities. Madurai chapter has been succeesfully spreading all these concepts in the southern part of Tamilnadu in several industries, schools, banks, hospitals etc.

Our clients are , Sri Govindaraja Group of Mills, Sri Jayajothy &co Spinning and OE units, Bannari amman Spg Mills, Shiva texyarn ltd, ATK Textiles, Renuga textiles, Sharada terry products, and Super spinning mills, Karpagambal mills,Madras cements, India cements, Chettinadu cements,DCW,. Sterlite , Malco, Shasun chemicals, TVSSrichakra,Hitech Arai , Fenner, Sundaram Industries, BHEL, Salem Steel plant, Neyveli Lignite corporationTVS school, SBOA school, Meenakshi hospitals, Canara bank etc.

Madurai Chapter introduced Total Quality Management to engineering college students through week end classes. SACS MAVMM college utilized this offer effectively and this enabled all the students to get very good placements in industry. The success of this program was instrumental to introduce TQM as compulsory subject for all branches of engineering colleges of Anna University from last year.

We have full fledged trained faculty who have very good industrial experience. We hosted National Convention at Madurai during Dec 2003. This convention shattered all the previous records both in terms of number of delegates and also number of QC teams. We were able to generate sufficient funds for establishing an office for the chapter. Now we have purchased a flat and set up our office.

We have given Five S certification to Sri Govindaraja Mills, Aruppukottai Sri Jayajothy & co Spinning Mills at Rajapalyam and OE Division at Virudunagar, Bannari Amman spinning Mills , Dindugal.

We are regularly conducting our annual chapter convention on these Quality Concepts at different locations as our area is very vast.We hosted our first Chapter convention at Madurai in 1991 wherein 25 Quality circles with 200 delegates took part. We had successfully hosted this convention 5 times in Madurai, 4 times in Courtallam, one time each in kanyakumari, Sahupuram , pandalkudi, RRnagar, Tiruchi,Salem, Coimbatore, Kodaikanal. OOty, Munnar.In the last Convention at Munnar 95 circles consisting around 565 delegates took part. Many teams from North India are also coming and taking part in our convention and giving the colour of mini national convention.

This year we are planning to host our 20th chapter convention at Coimbatore. We expect around 650 delegates to take part representing 50 industries. We will be conducting competitions in Quality circles, Five S, kaizenn, TPM etc in 4 different halls concurrently.