Operation of Cement factory (Part 2)

Quality Control

Quality a Competitive Priority

There are four competitive priorities

1.     Cost

2.     Time

3.     Flexibility

4.     Quality

The product like cement cost priority is not best because of legal consideration and suffers heavy losses. Time can be used as competitive priority. On time delivery is most important but the sometimes demand is very high the company is unable to provided on time delivery. The flexibility is less because cement is standardized product. The only one competitive priority is the main base which offers the competition. This is achieving the high quality. As it was mentioned in the mission statement of the organization. Provide the high quality cement at competitive prices. Because the prices of cement are fixed so quality is the only competitive weapon through which a company can compete the market. Keeping this in its view, D. G. Cement Factory applied for ISO 9000 certificate.

ISO 9002

XYZ cement factory is providing high quality cement for its beginning. After the establishment of expansion department. The company No. 1 in the cement industry Pakistan.

To cope with the environment they apply for ISO 9002 certificate. The company hired Shakeel and Company Lahore as consultant to get ISO 9002 certificate. A committee is formed under the control of GM of the company Mr. Dr. Asif Bashir to be certified as ISO 9002.

The company get the ISO 9002, certificate in the long run. The main aim to get the certificate is to provide the customers the quality cement and competitive prices.

After getting the ISO 9002 certificate. The company reduce its inefficiencies in management as well as in production. It reduce in rework cost because of clear cut responsibilities are awarded to employees. It also increase the reliability of employee upon the D. G. Cement.

·        Modern equipped laboratory establishment

·        Quality to check according to plan at each stage.

Cement x-ray Spectrometer is used to check the quality of the product at different stage. It takes 5 minutes to assess the ingredients of the product. There are six tests for the quality assurance at different stages of the production process.

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