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New building bringsstores of space

Due to high demand for storage and quick

retrieval of raw materials for production

ASECO has completed the construction of

a new stores building.

The new site has well planned pallet

racking and rack supported mezzanine

systems, including pigeon holes. Each of

these pigeon holes will be equipped with

plastic bins to make sure all the items are

clearly marked.

The new stores building incorporates a

Receipt Area, Inspection Area, Rejection

Area, Red tag Area and Empty Bins Area to

avoid confusion.

As space was at a premium ASECO

decided to utilise the height of the build-

ing for added storage space.

Also in the steel yard ASECO has

ordered a Gantry Crane which has a 32

ton-capacity, with a span of 30 metres.

and length of travel 130 metres. The

height under the hook will be 8.5 metres,

which will help in storing steel items in a

proper systematic way.

The new stores building willprove vital for improved production facilities.

Value engineeringEven inspite of price hikes in

the market for steel we have

always tried to maintain the

price for our customers by

introducing new welding, cut-

ting & fabrication technolo-

gies in our company for e.g –

usage of costly Hardox plates

in rock tipper was cut down

by having a better & efficient

plate layout in the plate pro-

cessing section" an idea

inspired and implemented by

S.P.Velmurugan, thereby

reducing labour hours, simpli-

fied material handling, elimi-

nated shearing & heating and

minimized welding process.

Congratulations to SPV for his

valuable contribution.

Goodidea: SPVelmurugan.

A silo is a structure for storing bulk materials. Silos are more com-

monly used for bulk storage of grain, coal, cement, carbon black,

wood chips and sawdust. We manufacture custom-made silos for

storage of cement with the specifications below.

■ Available in sizes from 1000 cuft to 3500 cuft

■ With aeration system, air pads, air jets

■ Material: MS steel of grade ASTM A36/Equivalent

■ With foldable Hand rails on top

■ LiftingLugs tested and certified for empty lifting

■ Either with/without vertical skid

■ Provision of mounting load cell - Optional

■ With branched piping/ stand alone piping

■ External with epoxy painting

■ With ASME ‘U’ stamp certification - Optional

Silos – Learn whatASECO can do for you

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Q&A Q: ASECO World: What is your mainfunction as an Assistant SafetyManager?A: At ASECO my main functionrevolves around managing and coordi-nating the Organisation Health, Safetyand Environment activities, as well asproviding safety support services. Itfurther stretches to the followingroles:■ Develop materials and methodologiesto promote safety awareness throughoutthe organisation.■ Identify training needs and developand deliver training materials andresources for employees, covering theentire range of safety management.■ Implement HSE policy and follow theprocedures laid down by this organisa-tion.■ Manage, coordinate and conduct acci-dent and incident investigations andsafety audits in accordance with accept-ed international code of practice andmethodologies.■ Identify and provide support to thedevelopment of Environmental manage-ment process and policies in accordancewith UAE Federal Law, DM Local Orders& environmental Guidelines, Dubai CivilDefense Fire & Safety standards andOHSAS standards.

Q: What training, advice, precaution-ary measures do you adopt in

imparting safety culture in theorganisation? A:With safety first in mind, we adopt dif-ferent methodologies for imparting safe-ty culture amongst thework force at ASECO. Some of whichare:■ Daily safety tool-box talks.■ Green Cross calendar and e-mail mes-sages to promulgate unsafeincidents/conditions on a daily basis.■ Twice a week safety meeting with theteam leaders and area-wise monthlysafety meetings■ Safety training at Induction andrefresher training every six months.■ Promotions and rewards to improveproactive safety culture.■ Training in first aid, fire fighting, haz-ardous materials handling by externalagencies and also evacuation mock drillsto instill the confidence levels amongstthe employees.■ Area wise safety ranking system toincrease competence towards safety.■ Monthly performance score system forself responsibility for each employeetowards safety.

Q: Are there any inspection and certi-fication of safety standards by exter-nal bodies? What type of certifica-tion has the company been awardedwith? A: YES, with UAE Ministry of Labour,

DubaiMunicipalityEnvironmentdepartment,Dubai CivilDefense.They carry outregularinspectionsfor safetystandards. Inaddition TUV NORD conducts inspections& audits in accordance with ISO 14001and OHSAS 18001. ASECO has beenawarded with ISO 14001 (EMS) andOHSAS 18001/1999 certificates and are inthe process of upgrading OHSAS18001/2007 in the near future.

Q: How do you manage hazardous/non-hazardous waste disposal?A: We follow DM Environmental guide-lines for disposal of hazardous/ non-haz-ardous waste.

Q: Any other information you wouldlike to share on safety?A: To sum up, Safety has an importantrole in life, in the air, on the ground, inwater- any place you would care to men-tion. Best practice is not to hide anyunsafe incidents/ conditions, but share itwith the team. This will help receivegood suggestions/solutions and alertothers too.

ASECO World talks to Assistant SafetyManager G.V. Bharath Kumar

The first Quarter of this calendar year has been

dedicated to three re-certification Audits. These

were for ISO, American Society of Mechanical

Engineers (ASME) and Schlumberger.

The focus of ISO 9001, 14001 & 18001 is on

the compliance of a Quality Management

System for the environment, OHSAS health,

safety, quality policy and procedures.

ASME tests ASECO on design calculations,

material certifications, traceability, testing and

records for oilfield pressure vessels.

ASECO client Schlumberger checks the capa-

bility in terms of organisation, functions and

systems for existing as well as future process

requirements.

Audit teams were impressed by ASECO for

its efforts in Lean Manufacturing

Implementation with the use of tools like ERP,

teamwork, 5S,waste elimination, layouts, visu-

al management, tact time, TPM, built in quali-

ty, short lead time, new production launches

and quality Circles.

ASECO also thanked the Auditors for their

valuable suggestions to improve work instruc-

tions, facilities and capabilities, including

Stainless Steel, Alloy Steels and Aluminium.

These recommendations will go a long way in

stretching ASECO to meet increasingly strin-

gent global requirements.

ASECO was successfully re-certified for all

the above requirements. This is a fine example

of teamwork amongst all the functions and for

all of at ASECO to be proud.

The audit work was successfully handled by

P.Kumanan, Nasir Patel,

S.M.Rajan, Kalyan Shelke,

Rajeev Sharma, Alpesh

Desai and G.V. Bharath

Kumar.

Quality hat-trick for ASECO Nasir’s workreaps bigrewards

Nasir Patel, Assistant Manager

Production, has developed a computer

programme in Visual Basic to help with

Material Requirement Data.

And the programme has proved so

successful it is now being used at

ASECO.

On entering or updating a required

delivery date for a job, target dates for

components and processes to be com-

pleted at various locations are auto-

matically generated.

The same can be done on revising

the actual receipt date for a particular

process. In this case the system pro-

vides the revised job delivery schedule.

This initiative is improving job plan-

ning and schedules achievement as

well as team work between various

functions. It is also reducing unneces-

sary inventory time and space.

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Anniversary celebrations

Name No.of yearsKrishnakumar Karakkat 10P.Sulaiman Thanveer 10Rajgopal Bangera 10Bharathan Swaminathan 9Divakaran Muraleedharan 9Durgaprasad Satapathy 9Irfan Majeed 9Izhar Ahmed 9Jande Surendher 9K.A.Reghu Kumar 9Komban .C.Joshy 9Manikandan .T.C 9Maria Wilson Anthony 9Mohammad Irshad 9Mohammad Jawed Alam 9Mohd Mazaher Ullah 9Mohd Tarique Siddique 9Muna Chauhan 9Muraleedharan .N.Pillai 9Onkar Singh 9P.Sugathan 9Saneesh Mukri 9Shiva Rama Shetty 9Shoji Thomas .V 9Sunil Kumar Bhaskaran 9T.Mathai Joseph 9Yamuna Prasad Dubey 9Arul Jothi Easwaran 9A.A.Khader Abdul Razick 8Chathau Suresh 8Davis Kurian Thekkan 8

Name No.of yearsDivakaran Muraleedharan 8Francis .K.Paulose 8Ganesh.S.Shetty 8Gogavle Vasant 8Hariharan Kumar 8Harkanwal Jit Singh 8Jagtar Singh 8Jakkala Rajeshwar 8Katharsha Shafiulla 8M.Ali Anees Ahamed 8Madhu T Kutty 8N.Damodaran Sasi 8Premavasalan .K.P 8Rashpal Singh 8Shoji Thomas .V 8Soans Osbourn Habel 8V.V.Sabhari Gireesan 8Vanacherala Ram Babu 8Vinod.P.V.Mathew 8C.Unni Dinesh Kumar 7Gurdeep Singh 7Jamil Ahamed 7Joseph .K.Johny 7Mahendran Adiyeri 7Natarajan Ganesan 7Pachchaimuthu Kumanan 7Prabeen Thanathara 7R. Chinnathurai 7Shabbir M. Patel 7Shankar Rama Bangera 7Shiva.B.Rawal 7

Name No.of yearsSreekumar Edamana 7Khem Bahadur Sarki 6Anil Kumar B 5Birendra Kumar Shrestha 5Buddi Gurung 5C.P.Siju 5Chandran Pillai Sunil 5Chitra Bahadur Adhikari C. 5D Muthukumar 5Dev Bahadur Thapa 5Dil Bahadur Chhetri 5Edakkat Karappu Shaiju 5Ekambaram Viswanathan 5G.V.Bharathkumar 5Gopalan Ratishkumar 5Gunanidhi Neupane 5Hemakumara K 5Henry Michael 5Javed Ahmad Ali Hasan 5Jit Bahadur Kayat 5Khadga Prasad G.Magar 5Lok Bahadur B 5Man Bahadur Kami 5Nasir Adam Patel 5Raghu Kunnath Damodaran 5Shyam Shakhakarmi 5Sreekumar K Sreedharan Pillai 5Sunil Kumar Girdharilal 5Sunil Kumar P Vanarath 5Tarafder Partha 5Tham Kaji Gurung 5

Employees celebrating job anniversaries

These employees have been rewarded for giving suggestions to Improve safety, workstation, quality and reduce labour time, mate-

rial content, scrap and consumables. ASECO is proud of them for their active involvement in Quality Circles for continuous improve-

ments.

Star performers we are proud of you

The ASECO Premier League cricket series has been played in very friendly and

sportsman-like conditions, allowing staff and workmen to mingle amongst all

Cricket enthusiasts. And, it will also provide much needed practice for the

tournaments when the new season starts.

The 16-overs-a-side matches take place between the workmen and mem-

bers of staff from ASECO. The whole competition is organised by Mansoor Ali,

with the workmen’s team led by Shanker, and the Staff team led by Nasir.

Cricket competition proves a hit