Amara Raja bags eight Par Excellence awards at 46th ICQCC

The Amara Raja Group has announced that its teams have won eight par excellence awards at the 46th International Convention on Quality Control Circles (ICQCC) held in Hyderabad last week between 24th and 27th November. Up against over 900 teams comprising of about 5,000 participants from 13 countries, they each won the awards.

C Narashimulu Naidu, Chief Operations Officer of the company, said, "I am incredibly proud of the success our teams have achieved on such a prestigious global stage. Their achievements are certainly a testament to the exacting quality control standards we aspire to at the Amara Raja Group. They are also a reflection of our 'The Amara Raja Way' our culture and desire to constantly excel and keep pushing the boundaries to seek improvement in an open-minded, collaborative and inclusive manner."

Quality Control Circles (QCC) are a participative approach to problem-solving in which groups of operatives from the shop floor area identify, analyze and devise solutions to problems, driving a continuous improvement in business and quality standards. Amara Raja began incorporating QCCs in 2004, initially starting with just five circles. Today, nearly 1300 quality control circles comprising 8,000 employees are deployed throughout the group.

This push to instill a QCC culture has delivered tremendous value in the form of cost reductions, improvements in quality, delivery, safety, and ergonomic standards along with zero rejections, says the group whose flagship company Amara Raja Batteries Ltd is one of the largest manufacturers of automotive and industrial batteries in India. The group employs a workforce of over 16,000 people.