KEPCO KPS has been honored with the Excellent Quality Competitiveness Enterprise Prize in the 1st class public sector category of the Korea National Quality Award at the 41st National Quality Management Convention at COEX Auditorium in Seoul on Nov. 18. KEPCO KPS was awarded the prize for the 17th consecutive year.
KEPCO KPS, designated as a top-rated company with the potential for sustainable growth by establishing maintenance technology infrastructure tailored to rise to a “global ace,” is credited for its creative corporate culture, breaking the mold and the limit of the public entity. The company has set its management tenets as “New Wind, a Promising Tomorrow,” a customer-oriented concept, and KEPCO KPS staff members are required to undergo 430 kinds of training programs to nurture manpower of global caliber. In-house qualification systems are operated in connection with personnel management to ensure manpower and technology development suiting the characters of a technology company.
The company is setting aside 5 percent of its annual sale to develop its own technologies, including the decommissioning of old nuclear units and the implementation of the Retrofit Project to improve the efficiency, performance and lifespan of outdated power plants. Recognition of KEPCO KPS’s service quality and quality management performance from the government attests to the fact that the company has a sufficient competitive edge to maneuver in the global market. This achievement was owed to KEPCO KPS’s staff’s endless efforts to offer quality maintenance services. KEPCO KPS is now redoubling its efforts to become a global company focusing on customers and markets, communicating and cooperating with interest groups, and being committed to its social responsibility.
Thanks to KEPCO KPS’s efforts to attain sustainable growth, the company has been establishing itself as a global premier maintenance company as it has won several awards, including the topping of an integrity survey among public entities; the listing of KOSPI 100; topping the top-10 list of companies with sustainable growth potential; the induction of the Hall of Fame of the Korea Service Grand Prix; and the achieving of the Quality Management Innovation Grand Slam.
KEPCO KPS is carrying out the KPS Way TPM (total productive maintenance), a five-stage quality management program. The program has paid off: achieving the feat of no stoppages stemming from a breakdown for the ninth consecutive year and reducing the period of planned preventive maintenance projects. In particular, the company has differentiated itself from others by developing patented technologies, including the devising of a guide for designating maintenance areas. KEPCO KPS has declared the service identity as “Professional Maintenance,” recognizing its identity as a maintenance company in 2015. KEPCO KPS specializes in reliable, high-quality maintenance of power plants, transmission, substations, and industrial facilities. First established for the efficient maintenance of electric power facilities in Korea, which are crucial to economic development, KEPCO KPS has brought greater convenience to the public by developing technology and nurturing experts in this field for the last three decades. Furthermore, the company has exerted enormous efforts to raise Korea’s maintenance technology to among the world’s best.
Thanks to years of hard work, KEPCO KPS now holds maintenance technologies for hydro, thermal, and nuclear power plants that are on par with those of advanced countries. Korea’s high utilization of power facilities ranks with those of advanced countries such as the United States and Japan. KEPCO KPS is among the world’s top when it comes to the diversity of its technology.
KEPCO KPS President Choi, in his inaugural speech at the KEPCO KPS head office in Bundang, Seongnam City, Gyeonggi-do, on Nov. 8, stressed solidifying its capabilities in a way that it cannot be swayed by any environmental changes, despite an expected raft of hardships and challenges, including the expanded competition of the power maintenance market.
He announced his top four management tenets management innovation through the reinvention of a management constitution; building a creative corporate culture through sharing and communications; creating synergetic effects by meeting customers’ needs; and strengthening global capabilities to rise to a world-class company.
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