Total Employee Involvement
SGA (SMALL GROUP ACTIVITY):
Quality Control Circles, named SGA (Small Group Activity) is a group of employees from the same or similar work areas who meet voluntarily to identify, analyze and solve work related problems to improve not only quality, productivity and work methods but also the quality of work life.
QIT (Quality Improvement Teams) :
Quality Improvement Teams is a forum for engineers/managers to solve their work-related problems. This works on a higher plane by using advanced quality tools and techniques such as DOE – Taguchi, Shainin etc and conducting experiments/deep analysis etc.
Suggestions :
Apart from the SGA contributing to the continuous improvement, we also have a suggestion scheme in our organization. Supervisors and engineers participate in continuous improvement activities called Quality Improvement Teams, Cross Functional Teams, Task Force, Work Team’s etc.
The unique feature of the people involvement in Lucas-TVS is the co-existences of both the suggestions scheme -linked to Monetary Awards and the SGA-with no monetary awards. It is to be noted that the SGA Teams are proud to present their case studies and derive immense satisfaction and pride when felicitated by the top Management.
 
CEO presenting Suggestion Awards.
 
Voluntary Work Team (Sunday Club) :
Work Team is a unique concept conceived during 2001 (TQM promotion phase) to promote the Total Employee Involvement with a sense of ownership of factory at workforce level .The movement started off with one team (Shop Floor 5S) of twenty members and eventually grew over the last 5 years to 8 different teams (TPM, Enviro, Office 5S, Safety, Kanban , QCT , APS) to a membership of 625.The concept encourages the teams to create improvements in the above areas in different modules /offices of the factory on a schedule on Sundays .
The fact that this is done as a voluntary act emphasizes the love the employees have on their respective workplaces. The improvements as Kaizens bought about benefits by way of gadgets such as fabricated structures etc to maintain 5S, Safety Devices, Kanban enabling work elements, quick change problem solving etc all focussing on reducing wastage.
The members wear color coded T-shirts and are allocated into different teams to conceptualize and implement Kaizens. Full support is provided by the Management in the implementation of the same. The concept of Work Teams created over 7000 Kaizens besides significant tangible savings to the organization. This great concept has sustained for over 6 years, thanks to the team efforts of the members towards the same.
 
Sunday Work Team Annual Convention