Hadeed, a wholly owned subsidiary of SABIC (Saudi Arabia Basic Industries Corporation), began its program with Reliable Manufacturing last October, during its Technical and Innovation week which focused on improving safety and reliability in the organization.
Reliable Manufacturing conducted a workshop titled ‘The Manufacturing Game’ to increase team learning and enhance cross-departmental communications and decision-making.
“The Manufacturing Game is a great way to instantly engage staff in the change-process and let them discover new ways to communicate and engage with each other,” said Hasan M. Al-Abandi, reliability manager of Hadeed.
“Staff began immediately applying the skills they learnt in the Game to real life issues within the organization; we have already begun to see a cultural shift in attitudes toward safety and reliability.”
The Manufacturing Game involves simulations of real world experiences to recreate the challenges that face organizations in improving reliability, customer responsiveness, production output and safety.
The 30 senior and middle management staff that took part in the initial workshop were able to simulate the experience of a five-year journey to world class performance in just two days.
The aim of the workshops was to ultimately improve safety, reliability and operations through cultural change and defect elimination. Early indications suggest the workshops are already having a positive effect.
Established in 1979, Hadeed is Saudi Arabia’s biggest Steel manufacturer, employing more than 2,800 people.
The company is part of SABIC, the largest and most profitable non-oil company in the Middle East.
It produces a range of products including rebar, wire, hot rolled strip, with a capacity of more than 5 million metric tons annually.
