In his New Year’s message, KEPCO KPS President Choi Yeu-geun said, “We have to renew a companywide sense of crisis, undergo development changes to the extent of innovation and ensure organization changes to survive rapidly-changing business conditions of today.” KEPCO KPS President Choi told his executives and staff members to look at the current situation and specify and clarify the company’s business portfolios and goals.
Choi made the remarks at a ceremony to kick off the 2016 business year at the innovative city of Bitgaram, Naju, on Jan. 4.
“The future will make a difference, depending on how much we make preparations, and we should continue to challenge toward the future full of hope,” he said.
KEPCO KPS President Choi revealed his company’s future management goals ramping up the competitive edge of the existing businesses, expanding of new growth engine business areas, securing of long-term growth businesses and establishing a new corporate culture. He urged his executives and staff members to achieve these goals.
President Choi took time out to exchange greetings and give KEPCO KPS staffs words of encouragement following the ceremony.
KEPCO KPS Boasts Top-Rated Maintenance Capabilities
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old nuclear units and the implementation of the Retrofit Project to improve the efficiency, performance and lifespan of outdated power plants.
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.
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