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TIKKA RE-ROLLING MILLS
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2
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MBA BOOKS INDIA
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Case study
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220
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CASE : TIKKA RE-ROLLING MILLS
Mr. Ramesh, aged 56, was a senior operative in one of the rolling units of the Tikka Re-Rolling Mills, which had 3,000 employees on the rolls. He had joined the company 35 years earlier as a semi-skilled worker and had risen to his present position by dint of hard work.
In the rolling units, steel billets (rough square bars 50-125 sq. mm.) obtained from steel plants, were heated to 1300C° in reheating furnaces and were rolled into smaller sections according to the requirements of the market. This process involved the reduction of billets to the desired size by stages, by passing them through a set of rolls mounted on a housing. Any delay in rolling interrupted the subsequent processing of finished steel products. The rolling operation in each unit was controlled by three operatives who worked on a raised platform called `the rolling gallery`, just by the side of the mill. They had to manipulate, separately, but in perfect unison, the different controls for rolling. This involved operating the rolling tables to move billets forward and backward, giving correct passes in between the rolls, applying the right pressure on the rolls to the size of billets, etc. The work demanded quick reflex action as well as effective co-ordination on the part of the operatives.
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