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New Delhi , July 15

SAMSUNG India has asked all its vendors to ensure lead/cadmium/mercury and chromium-free components. This move aims at ensuring environment-friendly products for its customers.

Teams from Samsung Electronics, Korea, have been visiting the vendor facilities for checking the processes. Vendors have also been given a manual for ensuring conformity with ROHS (Restriction of Hazardous Substances) environmental guidelines. All Samsung vendor facilities, too, need to be 1SO 14000 compliant.

Further, according to the company, it is giving a fresh impetus to its vendor development programme by launching a TWIN Program (Together Win through Six Sigma) with its key vendors. The program aims to improve the quality of the parts supplied by vendors and bring efficiency in their manufacturing costs by reducing high operational losses, wastages and the non-value added activity at the vendor end.

Six Sigma is being used as a tool for improving the processes at the vendor end. Samsung India's team of Six Sigma Specialists (Black Belts) are supporting and monitoring the projects that have been taken up at the vendor end.

In April, Samsung India took a team of 10 plastic parts/mould vendors to Korea and China for a visit to injection moulding vendors for process mapping and benchmarking, a company official pointed out. Following the visit, the Process Innovation team from Samsung visited the vendor facilities and worked with them to make improvements in their processes.

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