Abstract:
Quality of construction project is mainly depended on quality of construction materials and the workmanship. The construction industry of Pakistan has been struggling with quality issues since long. The ineffective quality regulatory body and non availability of local quality standard specifications could not give a clear direction to local construction materials industry and compelled to follow international standards for high quality products. This issue has also resulted in production of many substandard and counterfeit products. The purpose of this research is an attempt to evaluate the implementation of quality management standards in Re-rolling Steel Mills during manufacturing of steel bars looking insight the knowledge and registration of Re-rolling mills with Organizations of International Standardization and Standards. A small survey was conducted to gather information of prevalence of quality management system in Re-rolling steel mills. The survey starts with a questionnaire which is designed to collect data from the executives and quality assurance personnel of Re-rolling mills. By analyzing the response to the questionnaire, the opinion of the executives and quality responsible personnel of Re-rolling steel mills on the quality assurance and control in general and its particular application in the manufacturing of deformed steel bars was comprehended. The collected data was analyzed by SPSS software using four types of statistical analysis, namely Shapiro-Wilk test for normality distribution, Frequency distribution, Friedman One-way ANOVA for comparison of Means and test for outliers. The findings of this study shows that the overall ranking of Quality assurance and Quality control procedures basing on their means is (1) Specification (2) Control of non conforming products (3) Test equipment (4) Internal quality audits (5) Suppliers quality assurance (6) Quality plan and management procedures (7) Monitoring, inspection and testing (8) Handling, storage, packing and delivery (9) Involvement of workers (10) Customers focus (11) Continual improvement (12) Document control (13) Statistical techniques (14) Personnel training.
