Electric Loco Shed, Vijayawada bags Lean Sigma Six Implementation Certification

 First ever Electric Loco Shed in the entire SCR zone to get Lean Six Sigma Certification

20 Employees of ELS achieved Lean Six Sigma Green Belt Quality Management Certification

Electric Loco Shed Vijayawada (ELS) Division has added one more jewel in its Crown by bagging Lean Six Sigma Certification and Green Belt Training certification for its 20 Supervisors. With this, ELS, Vijayawada becomes the first Loco shed in the entire SCR Zone to bag Lean Six Sigma implementation certification. Anexas Europe, an independent third party globally recognized firm based at Bangalore presented the Lean Six Sigma implementation certification to ELS, Vijayawada for successfully implementing Sigma Six techniques with documented evidences of process improvements. As a part of Lean Six Sigma Certification, 20 Senior Section Engineers of Shed were provided with Green Belt Training and Practical session for 15 days through online and field sessions. 

Lean Six Sigma is a Process improvement Technique, which includes Root cause Analysis of process and previous failures to reduce /eliminate wastage of Material, Manpower etc., there by achieving target of Maximum productivity with existing resources. Sigma Six is a set of tools and techniques used by companies to improve production processes, eliminate defects, and guarantee quality. The main objective of this certification is to reduce the time wastage, improve productivity and elimination of defects with limited resources. Three projects were identified by ELS Staff for proper analysis to improve the productivity with reduced manpower. Staff successfully implemented the measures and bagged the certification from consultancy firm.

ELS, Vijayawada is currently maintaining 212 Locos of both Conventional and 3 phase, which are running all over Indian Railways in various Passenger and Freight trains. Adoption of Lean Six Sigma practices in Loco maintenance activities will help in reducing maintenance time, thereby increase in loco out turn of shed. This would definitely have a positive impact on movement of coaching and goods trains across the Division due to increased Electric Loco Out turn.

Shri Shivendra Mohan, Divisional Railway Manager, Vijayawada congratulated Shri Ch. Dinesh Reddy, Sr. DEE, Electric Loco Shed, Vijayawada and staff for successfully implementing the measures to increase the output and bagging the Sigma Six certification. He said that such certifications are testimony of our hard work and implementation of best and quality practices on par with internationally acclaimed standards.