THE INDIAN STEEL & WIRE PRODUCTS LTD (ISWP), JAMSHEDPUR, CELEBRATES RECORD PRODUCTION

ISWP, which had been closed for over five years, was taken over by Tata Steel on December 20, 2003. Within a span of 13 days, wire production was started from January 2, 2004. Within four months in end April the Wire Rod Mill was also put it operation. In July, within seven months both Wire Rod and Wire Mill made record productions, which had never before been achieved in ISWP's history of 80 years. These records were further broken in August - Wire Rod Mill produced 12765 MT and Wire Mill 5460 MT.

To celebrate this achievement and enthuse and motivate the employees to still greater heights, Mr.B.Muthuraman, MD, Tata Steel, visited the plant on September 1.

Wiring the relationship/Knotted by wire

It was about an year ago when IWCL, a big wire manufacturing company at Indore and India's biggest wire manufacturing giant TATA STEEL WIRE DIVISION started a business relationship through External Processing Activity Arrangement. On 14th September 2004 this relationship was redefined when TATA STEEL WIRE DIVISION started their first step through "SYNERGY" meet. This was targeted towards complementing the strength and weakness of both the companies so as to optimise the efforts by working hand in hand with each other. A team from TATA Steel Wire Division comprising of Mr.A.V.Shah, Mr.R.T.Gogia, Mr.G.S.Keshwani and Mr.Sushil Pednekar with a consultant Mr.Mohit Sharma, called for a meeting with IWCL employees which included the workmen, officers and senior management. The meeting started with introduction of the people and then Mr. A.V.Shah and Mr.R.T.Gogia threw some light on the agenda of the "SYNERGY" meet. Mr.Sushil Pednekar gave his presentation of plant statistics w.r.t. the performance trends. Mr.Keshwani gave presentation on Quality Management covering the topic field of Quality Assurance, Control and Problem Solving Techniques. Mr.Mohit elaborated on the subject 'Synergy' and 'Change Management'. This was followed by queries and suggestions from employees of IWCL. There were discussions on technical subjects and soft issues also with the greatest emphasis on "Ownership of the Problem" which was elaborated by Mr.R.T.Gogia and Mr.Keshwani with examples.

At the end of the meeting one could see the eyes of everyone enlightened with the fact that the relationship which earlier used to be professional was now getting restructured for a common improvement goal to achieve "SYNERGY".

- G.S.Keshwani

SAP Implementation at Wire Division
Touching Lives of everyone at Wire Division & beyond

Wire Division has embarked upon the implementation of SAP in various functional areas. The kick off meeting for the SAP project was organized on 28.10.04 at Borivali Training Centre where EIC formally inaugurated the Project. The entire senior management and many officers were present in the kick off meeting. In the kick off meeting EIC remarked that this is one of the mega change initiative that we have embarked upon in recent times. He also stressed upon the fact that, looking at the growth plan and aspirations of wire division to be one amongst the top global player in wire industry the robust IT system like SAP is imperative for us.

The implementation of SAP involves defining the various business processes and also aligning some of our business processes to the best practices as defined in SAP. The advantages of implementing SAP at Wire Division are as follows:

To have unified view of information for all business processes of wire division
Align IT system to Business needs.
Integration with Steel Division Enterprise system.
To enable uniform business processes across all locations
I.T. enablement of Business Processes as defined by task forces
such as Nai Disha, SOIP & SCM BPR.

SAP Competency Center of Jamshedpur & Kolkatta supports the implementation, alongwith the full time functional team from wire division.

Various modules of SAP will be implemented in a phased manner. Phase 1 of SAP would go live from 1st of April 2005 for all locations i.e. manufacturing plants, EPA, stockyard and Sales offices of Wire Division.

  Udyan Pandit Mr. Gulabrao Barate

Mr. Gulabrao Barate, Ex-Tata Steel Wire Division Employee opted for VRS in the year 2000. He decided to spend rest of his life in farming, since his roots were deep in the soil of his motherland at Ambegaon near Junnar. He showed sincerity and enthusiasm in farming just as while he was in service. Barren land was converted into fertile one within a span of three years. His work was appreciated by everyone in the area. He was awarded with 'Udyan Pandit Purskar' in the hands of Governor Shree Mohammad Fazal in presence of Shree Sushilkumar Shinde, former Chief Minister, Shree Vijaysingh Mohite-Patil, former Deputy Chief Minister.

    
Achievement of TATA STEEL Cricket Coaching Center : (Tarapur)

	Miss Amruta Mane daughter of Mr. P.B.Mane (Working at TWP) was selected in Mumbai women's cricket team for sub Junior national cricket tournament held in New Delhi from 14th July to 19th July 2004. She also participated in U/19 National Women's Cricket Tournament held at Hazaribagh and also in Senior National Women's Cricket Tournament held at Anantpur in Andhra Pradesh.
	Miss Najuka Sunil Dawane daughter of Mr.Sunil Dawane (Working at TVM) was selected in Mumbai Women's Cricket Team for Sub Junior National Cricket Tournament held in New Delhi from 14th July to 19th July 2004.
	Kumar Joshil Sukhani was selected to represent U-19 Mumbai Cricket Team.