Abstracts - Innovation and Improvement Projects
Listed below are abstracts of improvement and innovation projects that have competed in the previous QualTech Prize competitions. Please click on the title of each paper to access the corresponding abstract.
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Innovation Projects
Industry	Title of Paper	Company	Status
Aluminum	Reduction in Die Set Up Time	Hindalco	Winner
Aluminum	Reduction in Time for Work-Roll Change on Hot Rolling Mill	Hindalco	Winner
Copper	Improvement in Quality of Electrowon Cathodes	Sterlite Copper, Silvassa	Finalist
Energy	Innovative Method to reduce the down-time of Boiler Feed Pump	Reliance Energy Limited, Dahanu	Finalist
Energy	Fuel Cost Optimization - Decision Making Model	Reliance Energy Limited, Dahanu	Finalist
Heavy Engineering	Minimize Stub Length Wastage of Electrodes	Larsen & Toubro Limited, Hazira	Winner
Heavy Engineering	Welding Consumable Slip Kiosk	Larsen & Toubro Limited, Hazira	Finalist
IT	Service Improvement by Innovation	Wipro Infotech, Mumbai	Participant
Improvement Projects
Industry	Title of Paper	Company	Status
Aluminum	To enhance Customer Satisfaction through Energy Conservation	Hindalco	Finalist
Cement Manufacturing	Reducing Cycle Time for Indent Processing	Vikram Cement	Finalist
Cement Manufacturing	Reduction in High Electrical Energy Consumption	Vikram Cement	Participant
Chemicals	Improving Gypsum Quality in Phosphoric Acid Plant	Sterlite Copper, Tuticorin	Finalist
Chemicals	Six-Sigma project for Reduction in Break Down Cost of Rotating Equipments	Tata Chemicals, Babrala	Finalist
Copper	Leaching Rate Improvement	Sterlite Copper, Silvassa	Finalist
Copper	Improving fuel efficiency and reducing fuel consumption by 15% at anode furnace area	Sterlite Copper, Tuticorin	Finalist
Copper	Reduction in De-Tellurization Batch time	Sterlite Copper, Silvassa	Winner
Education	Supplier Quality Assurance	School of Management, IIT-Bombay	Finalist
Education	Total Quality Management in Physical Distribution	School of Management, NMIMS -Bombay	Finalist
Education	To Reduce the Number of Misfits from the Present 20% to 5%	Symbiosis Centre for Management and Human Resource Development	Winner
Electronics	Improvement in capacitor collection system of “Assembly machine”	Epcos India	Winner
Energy	Reduction in Number of Coal Mill tripping by 50%	Reliance Energy Limited, Dahanu	Finalist
Energy	Process Optimization - An approach to provide economical service to the customer (Reduction in Auxiliary Power Consumtion)	Reliance Energy Limited, Dahanu	Finalist
Farm Equipment	Reducing Time to Market in New Product Development by “Bringing Field to Lab”	Mahindra & Mahindra	Winner
Health Care	Energy Conservation	Indraprastha Apollo Hospital	Participant
Health Care	Continuous Management on Breakdown of Medical Equipment	Indraprastha Apollo Hospital	Participant
Heavy Engineering	Water Conservation	Larsen & Toubro Limited, Hazira	Finalist
Procurement and Construction	Continual Quality Improvement in the EPC business	Larsen & Toubro Limited, Powai	Participant
Retail	Customer Feedback Process	Shopper’s Stop	Winner
Steel	Increasing the Life of Refractory Llining of Steel Making Converter.	JSW Steel	Finalist
Insurance	Improvement of Pin-Mailer Generation and Regeneration Process	ICICI Prudential	Finalist
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