Spirited SMS-II collective puts up excellent performance
   Date :18-Jan-2022
 
 
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Staff Reporter
BHILAI, 
SAIL-Bhilai Steel Plant’s Steel Melting Shop-II (SMS-II) team under the guidance of Anjani Kumar, ED (Works) and Sushil Kumar, CGM (SMS-II) put in concerted efforts to bring the Slab Casters back on track.
SMS-II collective with casting 40 heats at a single stretch in one Tundish in Caster-6 on Sunday surpassing the record 38 heats made just 10 days earlier.
With enhanced reliability
of Caster-6 and disciplined
operation led SMS-II in scaling this new peak.
In line with ED (Work)’s call for ‘Consuming the hot metal’ produced by Blast Furnaces, SMS-II also geared itself up for the challenging duration when CV-I of the Plant’s SMS-III was planned for shutdown.
During the entire shutdown period from January 10 to January 17, SMS-II stood up to the task, clocking an average of 60 heats per day.
On January 10, the first day of shutdown of CV-1 of SMS III, as many as 68 heats were
produced by SMS-II and on the next day, SMS II produced
71 heats surpassing a three year old milestone.
Demonstrating its prowess even when enough Hot Metal was not available for Bloom production, SMS-II produced 67 heats - all slab heats on January 16 surpassing the previous best of 60 slab heats.
This quantum leap was only possible because of excellent leadership and focused and synergized team efforts – not only by Team SMS-II, but by the supporting departments as well. With completion of massive Capital Repair of Caster-1, SMS-II is keeping the scoreboard of BSP ticking.
Director I/c Bhilai Steel Plant and senior officers have
congratulated the collective of SMS-2 and supporting shops’ teams for the record
performances.