Published
January 6, 2017, 10:01 PM By Myrna M. Velasco
Two of the coal-fired
power facilities under the charge of Aboitiz Power Corporation had passed
international surveillance audit undertaken by a third party, thereby, affirming
their compliance to systems processes and service standards.
The plants recently
audited by TÜV Rheinland Philippines, Inc., an affiliate of
Germany-headquartered TÜV Rheinland Group, had been the 735-megawatt Pagbilao
and 300-MW Davao facilities.
For the Pagbilao plant,
Aboitiz Power’s Therma Luzon, Inc. (TLI) subsidiary is its independent power
producer administrator; while the Davao plant under Therma South, Inc. (TSI) is
owned and operated by the conglomerate.
The audit’s scope had
been on fuel management, ship unloading and coal yard as well as the
corresponding inter-functional processes of human resources. It primarily pored
over the company’s administration, security, legal and compliance risk
management, business systems management, information technology, corporate
social responsibility and those at its finance and accounting units.
For this year, Aboitiz
Power-Coal Generation Group President and Chief Operating Officer Sebastian R.
Lacson, noted that the coverage of the certification shall be expanded to cover
plant operations and maintenance.
“This will be made
possible by the ongoing business process re-engineering that began in June 2016
to prepare the group for ISO conformance and certification,” he stressed.
Aboitiz Power has
explained that “the annual surveillance audits are being conducted by a third
party to ensure the organization continues to conform to the standards of ISO
9001 Quality Management System.
ISO 9001 QMS is
considered a powerful business tool that enables an organization to identify
areas for improvements – be it in operations or becoming more cost-competitive
on its products and services.
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