OREANDA-NEWS. August 03, 2011. Baosteel ship plate electronic quality certificate online collaboration function is formally launched and put into operation. Thus Baosteel become the first domestic steel company to introduce the ship plate product electronic quality certificates. The system enables customers obtain Baosteel ship plate product quality certificates in a more efficient and flexible way. Since there is no need to print and mail ship plate product quality certificates, it not only reduces the cost but also is more environmentally friendly, reported the press-centre of Baosteel.

On October 2009, Baosteel Co,Ltd. successfully developed electronic quality certificates (not for ship plate products) and was widely acclaimed by customers. As the ship plate product quality certificates required inspection and manual signature of the classification society surveyor, traditional methods of manual printing, signing, issuing and sending were still adopted with long business processing cycle, low efficiency and it was  time-consuming and energy consuming. Domestic and foreign ship plate customers had  urgent need that Baosteel should shorten time in issuing Baosteel ship plate quality  certificates and provide convenient ship plate electronic quality certificates.

In the first half of this year, a team led by Baosteel Co.,Ltd. manufacturing management department, composed of the marketing management department, heavy plate department, Baosight Software, Bsteel Online, sorted out and improved internal management problems, made ship plate electronic quality certificates promotion plan and successfully developed a quality ship plate electronic quality certificates on-line system. Meanwhile, the team actively communicated with classification societies. Based on the successful experience of Baosteel five-meter heavy plate production line, quality classification was carry out by classification societies in Luojing area. Through the efforts, ship products in Luojing passed quality assurance from KR, NK, BV and LR, so that  Baosteel received the ship plate inspection and test authority from classification societies and conditions were created for the launch of electronic quality certificates. It is known that at present the first coodination pilot item is KR's ship plate electronic quality  certificates.