A culture of improvement

Abstract

Two years ago, a large-scale transformation started at the Eurasian Resources Group - they began to implement the ERG Way production system at the company's enterprises. This is the path to improving the efficiency of the company and its production processes, including a safety culture. The project is strategic, and the ERG management expects tangible results from it in the form of continuous improvements, increased productivity, and a change in production culture. And, despite the fact that last year due to the pandemic, the active phase of implementation was suspended, the production system continued to develop. The project team was able to create conditions under which the changes made did not suffer losses, to preserve the achieved results, and somewhere even to increase. For example, in 2020, ERG employees submitted over 16 thousand initiatives to improve production processes. Oleg Zakharov, ERG Director for Operational Efficiency, said how we managed to maintain production indicators at the proper level in a difficult period.