NCQP in March

The Sri Lanka Association for the Advancement of Quality Productivity (SLAAQP) will hold its National Convention (NCQP 2012) on March 23 and 24. This event is being organised after a lapse of a few years. The Convention will be held at the Sri Lanka Foundation Institute (SLFI), Independence Square, Colombo 7.

The event is organised as a contribution of the Association to the improvement of Sri Lanka's competitiveness. Improving quality and productivity on a national scale will deliver many benefits including better quality and higher reliability, improving competitiveness, reducing costs of production and service, thereby reducing the cost of living, and the improving service quality. In many countries including Japan voluntary and non-governmental organisations similar to the SLAAQP have made important contributions to the development of quality and productivity.

The SLAAQP is a member of the Co-ordination Committee of the International Convention on QC Circles.

Speakers for the technical papers will be announced in due course. Companies and organisations that are interested in entering their Quality Circles for presentation/competition and submit posters, slogans and Kaizen suggestions could download the forms from the SLAAQP website www.slaaqp.org.or call National Chamber of Commerce of Sri Lanka, which is the secretariat of the SLAAQP, and request application forms. The award ceremony will take place on March 24. The chief guest will be Productivity and Promotion Minister Lakshman Seneviratna.

The awards for Quality Circles will include best overall presentation, best use of analytical tools, best tangible results, best intangible results, and best presentation format, etc.