OREANDA-NEWS. January 31, 2008. ESTAR Group enterprises undergo inhouse benchmarking. Experts of Engels Pipe Plant (EPP, Engels, Saratov region) visited the Volgograd Small Diameter Pipe Plant (VSDPP). This week a group of leading specialists from VSDPP is to pay a return visit to Engels to share the experience and establish tight cooperation between the departments of the two plants. The main task in the framework of the strategy of ESTAR managing company is to compare the efficiency of different departments of the Group and introduce best practice of business processes management at the enterprises.

A long-established tradition of exchanging experience and experts fits in with the modern management model and allows an improvement of production processes.

Employees of CJSC EPP noted a high quality of equipment in the central laboratory with regard to mechanical tests of the pipes and professional skills of the control equipment department workers at VSDPP. The Volgograd experts, in their turn, were inspired by the quality management system created at the Engels pipe plant according to ISO 9001, and started preparing the documentation to introduce quality management system at VSDPP. 

The production sphere of VSDPP will also see some changes. A fixture for packing the pipes in hexahedral boxes is being prepared at the production line of small section pipes. Besides improvement of the appearance of the packed finished products, the hexahedral form allows maximum comfort when counting the pipes.