Team News Riveting
Rourkela, April 18
The employees of the Shops-Structural and Fabrication of SAIL, Rourkela Steel Plant (RSP) have displayed their skill and expertise once again by reviving and re installing a defective and unused CNC profile cutting machine of Blast Furnace#5 by using in-house resources.
The revived CNC profile cutting machine was inaugurated recently at the Structural and Fabrication Shop by Ravi Ranjan, CGM (Shops, Design and Roll Shop), in the presence of Shekhar Narayan, GM (Mechanical Shop), D K Nayak, GM (RS(M), S C Sabat, GM (Shops-S&F) and others senior officers of Structural and Fabrication Shops and user departments.
It may be noted that the CNC profile cutting machine installed at TLRS section of BF#5 was not in use as few components needed to be replaced to bring back the machine into operation. The employees of Shops- Structural and Fabrication decided to revive and reinstall the equipment with in-house resources. The scope of developing procedure was frozen under the guidance of Ravi Ranjan, and in consultation with S C Sabat.
With reference to the existing CNC profile cutting machine the renovated CNC profile cutting machine was reinstalled suiting to the site working parameters and developed totally with the in-house resources for the 1st time. The drawings were prepared by Design Dept and foundation work was done by Civil Engineering (Services).
Purchasing a new CNC profile cutting machine would have cost the company about Rs 50 lakh.
