MUMBAI and NEW DELHI, March 29, 2016 /PRNewswire/ --
The Make in India program, launched by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, as part of a wider set of nation-building initiatives is a visionary step to put India on the global map. It has been devised to transform India into a global design and manufacturing hub. Against this backdrop, the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) along with Breakthrough Management Group India (BMGI) as Knowledge Partner, organized a conference aimed at enabling the Make in India program on the platform of 7th India Operational Excellence Summit on 22nd March, 2016 at The Taj Mahal Hotel, New Delhi. The theme of the conference was 'Make-ing India the Global Hub of Best-in-Class Manufacturing.'
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The event comprised of thought leaders from across the world with senior management representations from reputed organizations like Maruti Suzuki, Ingersoll Rand, Punj Lloyd Group, Coca Cola and Exxon Mobil to name a few and representations from industrial and governing bodies like the Niti Aayog and J&K State Industrial Development Corporation.
S Y Siddiqui, Summit Chairman and Chief Mentor, Maruti Suzuki India Ltd, opened the inaugural session with an introduction of the key speakers. He talked about importance of excellence for all businesses. Citing Maruti's example, he said it would not be possible for Maruti to export cars to Japan as well as lead customer satisfaction ratings in India, without a strong focus on excellence. He also talked about 'Designing for Lean', a concept that puts lean principles into a factory at the time of plant design.
Naresh T Raisinghani, CEO and Executive Director, Breakthrough Management Group India when introducing the theme of the Summit, talked about the three 'I's' for inculcating excellence in business. He stressed on the need to 'Integrate Strategy with Excellence', wherein excellence projects are identified by the leadership team. The second 'I' is to 'Integrate Excellence in the Organization Culture' by creating a critical mass of improvement practitioners. The third 'I' is the need to 'Innovate' with disruption in new products, services and business models being essential to complement excellence.
Dr. Arvind Panagariya , Vice Chairman, NITI Aayog, Government of India provided an economist's view of the Make in India program and excellence's role in it. He indicated that Make in India has been launched to move India from an agricultural economy to a modern industrial economy with the emphasis to generate employment and to give a boost to the economy. He further iterated that manufacturing is at the heart of the program, primarily because India is laggard in manufacturing as its percentage to India's GDP in comparison to other developing and developed nations. He further highlighted the need for excellence in manufacturing operations, which would provide a boost to growth in manufacturing.
The second session focused on the Panel Discussion: 'Is Make in India Possible without Manufacturing Excellence?' The discussion was opened and moderated by Naresh T Raisinghani, CEO and Executive Director, BMGI. The members of the panel were Ajay Shankar, Chairman, Expert Committee Constituted by DIPP and Former Secretary - DIPP, Government of India; Amit Sharma, Managing Director, J&K State Industrial Development Corporation (SIDCO); Sandeep Kalia, Chief Executive Officer, Valvoline Cummins Pvt Ltd; Vinod Sharma, Managing Director, Deki Electronics Limited and Arun Awasthy, President and Managing Director, Delphi Automotive System Pvt. Ltd. The key insights from the session are:
a) Manufacturing is absolutely essential to India's economic and employment growth
b) India needs to leapfrog her peers and work to make products that are of the highest quality, at the lowest cost using environmentally sustainable means
c) Involvement of employees across all levels of the organization is critical for excellence
The second session titled 'Designing a Best-in-Class Manufacturing Setup: From Good to Great Manufacturing', was chaired by Deepak M Muthreja, Principal Consultant, BMGI. Deepak provided the opening remarks for the session and introduced the speakers.
Varun Gadhok, Country Head, Manufacturing Solutions, Autodesk India Pvt Ltd, spoke about certain good practices in bringing new products to the market. He advocated the need for personalization at the concept finalization stage, for collaboration at the design stage with internal and external partners such as universities and finally, having a flexible production system built around the principles of lean.
In order to move from good to great manufacturing, Ashok Wadhawan, President, Manufacturing Business, Punj Lloyd Ltd, talked about the need for strong processes in manufacturing. He introduced a unique concept of making India the 'Back-Office of Manufacturing Processes'. To enable this, he highlighted the ability of building flexibility in our processes. To illustrate the point, Mr Wadhawan cited Punj Lloyd's example where on the same line, they make nuclear products and aviation parts.
Amar Kaul, Territory Vice President and Business Head, Ingersoll-Rand, highlighted the importance of excellence in our efforts to remain competitive. He espoused the use of an A3 framework as a strategy document, which provides alignment between operational excellence efforts and driving business growth. He shared ideas for driving manufacturing excellence, including defining standard work and building engagement between leadership and people at the gemba.
The third session on 'Sustainable Manufacturing' was chaired by Susmita Narayan, Senior Business Leader, Keysight Technologies International.
Staring with an example from his personal experience, Anil Gupta, Vice President, Platform Strategy, DataWind, spoke about a new CSR practice that helped drive sustainable development. He talked about the economic, environmental and social pillars for sustainable development. Talking about the five truths of sustainable development, he explained what is required to ensure that your organisation operates in a sustainable manner, such as the use of renewable resources must proceed at a rate that enables replenishment to be sustainable.
Why is there a need for sustainable manufacturing? Akshay Deep, Head, Technical Services, Gabriel India Ltd, pondered on this question while talking about how sustainable development is needed today more than ever before. He proposed ideas such as green manufacturing and orbit shifting innovation to address sustainable development. He also talked about how Gabriel India re-designed a product by replacing a solid bar with a hollow tube, leading to a more sustainable product design.
Manu Bhargava, Key Account Advisor, Industrial, ExxonMobil Lubricants, talked about how improved and advanced tech lubricants can enable the manufacturing industry become more sustainable by helping improve efficiency of machines, while reducing the environmental impact of the same. He illustrated how a change in lubricant in a plastic injection moulding machine based on temperature and energy studies led to a significant reduction in downtime and improvement in energy efficiency.
Kunal Sharma, Associate Vice President of Operational Excellence (South Asia Region), Hindustan Coca-Cola Beverages Pvt Ltd, talks about how continuous improvement initiatives can be an integral part of sustainable manufacturing. He starts by discussing the key drivers to run a successful continuous improvement program in a company, such as establishing the burning desire for the program and an ever-evolving diagnostic process. He talks about the need for successful change agents in the organisation to drive improvement initiatives, engagement of people and effective communication of success stories within the organisation to boost morale.
In the last session, which was the valedictory session, Padma Shri Dr. Pritam Singh, Noted Management Thinker and Chief Executive officer, LEAD Centre, talked about the need to build resilience in Indian businesses if they are to survive and thrive at the global stage. He offered his insights on how one could build resilience, i.e. by building strong leadership and looking within an order to understand what we did well today and planning what we will do tomorrow. He emphasized that leaders need to build an Olympian mind-set, wherein they encourage their employees to set their sights on new records and help them achieve those records. Dr. Singh also stressed on the need for Indian companies to look at the world as their market, i.e. have a global mind-set. He also exhorted Indian businesses to work hard on the development of their employees and ethical governance.
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About Breakthrough Management Group International, India:
BMGI is a management consulting firm focusing on Innovation Strategy, Innovation, Problem Solving and Business Transformation. Headquartered in the US, operating across 16 offices and more than 250 consultants worldwide, BMGI consults and leads organizational and business process transformation to improve performance, increase efficiency and effectiveness and reduce costs substantially. To know more about BMGI India kindly visit: http://www.bmgindia.com.
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