Continuing its commitment to promote the cause of quality and reliability, by offering a fresh approach, innovation and change to eventually deliver better quality in every walk of life, National Institution for Quality and Reliability (NIQR) along with Quality Council of India (QCI) has organised the biennial National Convention with the theme ‘Quality – the Global Winning Edge.’
B Muthuraman lighting the lamp to mark the inauguration of 14th NIQR Annual Convention
The 14th NIQR National Convention was inaugurated today by B Muthuraman, Vice Chairman, Tata Steel. Delivering the keynote address he said, the quality movement, irrespective of the method, appears to be focused on fixing a problem but it should otherwise be looked at as an excellent opportunity to bring people together, empower, make them think and energise them.
“Quality movement is significant process for leadership development,” he said adding that a good leader who can propagate quality should have two competing dimensions – visionary and architectural, since this will help strike a balance on between creativity and the analytics. Besides, the leader should have the ability to change the mindset of people and recognise the power of workforce. The key attribute for any leader is that he should believe sincerely that customer is the king. As part of the progrmme, Muthuraman released the Souvenir of NIQR.
G Rangarajan, Chairman, NIQR Chennai Branch, said, “Working with QCI this convention aims at addressing the various aspects of quality and how adoption of quality as way of life will greatly enhance competitiveness and push Indian industry towards accelerated phase of growth.”
The 2-day event is expected to address the immediate need of bringing together industry professionals from across the industry spectrum on a single platform to devise strategies for future endeavours to make quality the way of life. Today it has three sessions – Innovation, Cost Competitiveness and Bench-marking Practices. Tomorrow the convention will have four sessions – Skill Development & Quality eduction, Role of Leadership, Reliability Engineering and Organisation Culture.
