Ulsan City Hosts the '2023 Ulsan Quality Control Circle Competition'

June 14-15, Held at Dongcheon Gymnasium

Applications Accepted May 8-12 for 16 Fields

Ulsan City will hold the '2023 Ulsan Quality Improvement Team Competition' at Dongcheon Gymnasium in Ulsan from June 14 to 15.

The event is hosted by Ulsan City, organized by the Ulsan Regional Headquarters of the Korea Standards Association, and sponsored by the National Institute of Technology and Standards under the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy.

The competition will consist of presentations on quality improvement cases, judging, and awards.

In particular, it is expected to be an opportunity for quality-related personnel from all industries to gather in one place, as before COVID-19, to share and spread excellent quality improvement cases.

The participating categories include 16 fields: On-site Improvement, Equipment (TPM), Maintenance Management (EAM), Service, Office Indirect, Six Sigma, Research and Development (R&D), Safety Quality, Intelligent Factory (Smart Factory), Free Format (Manufacturing), Win-Win Cooperation, Carbon Neutrality, Proposal Cases, Learning Organization, Social Value Creation, and Service.

Teams registered with the Korea Standards Association from companies in the Ulsan region are eligible to participate, and applications can be submitted to the Ulsan Regional Headquarters of the Korea Standards Association from May 8 to 12.

Outstanding teams will be selected through presentation judging, and awards such as Grand Prize, Excellence Award, and Merit Award will be presented by the Mayor.

In particular, teams that receive the Grand Prize and Excellence Award will be granted the qualification to participate in the National Quality Improvement Team Competition, which will be held for five days from August 28 at the Suncheon Bay Ecological and Cultural Education Center.

For more details, please contact the Ulsan Regional Headquarters of the Korea Standards Association.

An official from Ulsan City stated, “We will spare no effort to support the active discovery, sharing, and dissemination of excellent cases of quality improvement and productivity enhancement in companies so that local companies can strengthen their quality management capabilities.”

A quality improvement team refers to an autonomous small group that continuously meets to independently identify and solve quality-related problems within the workplace for quality improvement.

As of 2023, Ulsan has 4,459 teams registered across 195 companies, with 46,407 team members who have solved approximately 14,500 issues, saving about 588.3 billion KRW annually.

Last year, 17 teams from Ulsan (15 teams passing the regional preliminaries and 2 teams from workplace preliminaries) participated in the National Quality Improvement Team Competition, winning 7 Gold, 4 Silver, and 6 Bronze awards, all receiving the Presidential Medal.

Among them, the small and medium-sized enterprise Hyeonyeong Corporation competed in the safety quality category with the theme “Reducing Near-Miss Accidents by Improving the Assembly Method of Ship Engine Crankshafts,” achieving cost savings of 65.57 million KRW through seven improvement activities, including reducing the time required for crankshaft assembly, and won the Gold Award.

Ulsan City Hall.

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