Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries Achieves Gold Award at National Quality Control Circle Competition

Both Competing Teams Awarded... Innovation Cases Recognized in R&D and Field Improvement Areas

Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries (CEO Shin Hyun-dae), a subsidiary of HD Hyundai, achieved a remarkable feat by having all participating teams win gold awards at the National Quality Control Circle Competition, known as the "National Sports Festival of the Industrial Sector."

According to Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries on the 4th, the two teams that participated in the "49th National Quality Control Circle Competition," held from the 28th of last month to the 1st at the Suncheon Bay Ecological Cultural Education Center, both received gold awards.

The ‘DENOVATION’ team and the ‘Gaonnuri’ team from Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries, who participated in the ‘49th National Quality Control Circle Competition’ held at Suncheon Bay Ecological Culture Education Center from the 28th of last month to the 1st of this month, won the gold prize.
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Co-hosted by Jeollanam-do Province, the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy’s National Institute of Technology and Standards, and Suncheon City, and organized by the Korea Standards Association, this competition was conducted under the theme "Leading Korea’s Next 100 Years with Quality Innovation."

Previously, over 2,500 members from 273 teams nationwide, who passed regional preliminaries by city and province, participated.

At this competition, on the 31st of last month, the Hull Design Department’s quality control circle team "DENOVATION" presented on "Development of VLCC with Optimized Cargo Hold Structure" in the R&D category and won a gold award.

On the 29th of last month, the Automation Innovation Center’s quality control circle team "Gaonnuri" presented on "Reducing Work Time by Improving LNG Membrane Sheet Welding Method" in the field improvement category and also received a gold award.

A Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries official stated, "The efforts of our employees, who have always pursued the highest quality and devoted themselves to discovering practical improvement cases on site, have borne fruit," adding, "We will continue to stand tall as a leader in manufacturing innovation recognized nationwide through relentless quality development and on-site improvements."

Hyundai Samho Heavy Industries plans to provide various benefits, including cash rewards and opportunities for domestic training, to the award-winning teams.

The presentations from this competition will be shared across all industrial sites via the National Quality Award website, and the awards ceremony will be held at the "49th National Quality Management Competition," the largest quality promotion government award event hosted by the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Energy, scheduled for November at COEX in Seoul.

Meanwhile, the National Quality Control Circle Competition is held annually, where workers, the protagonists of quality innovation in industrial sites, present excellent cases of manufacturing innovation and on-site quality improvement, including field improvements and carbon neutrality.

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