CII organizes 5th Jharkhand Manufacturing Conclave
Jamshedpur, June 7: Manufacturing has evolved over the centuries, from human-centered methods to machine-reliant assembly lines to the highly automated factories we’re beginning to see more of today. And the industry continues to evolve. Indeed, several trends are combining to transform manufacturing and, together, these trends can be referred to as “Industry 4.0.”
Against this backdrop CII Jharkhand organized fifth edition of Manufacturing Conclave on the theme “The Future of Manufacturing” at Beldih Club, Jamshedpur on Tuesday, June 7.
The conclave deliberated on the best practices in manufacturing and discussed latest trends that are available in the industry to enable manufacturing excellence and covered important topics of discussion including “Driving the Future of Manufacturing with Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT)”, “Robots & Cobots: Human-Machine Partnerships and Work of the Future” & “Advances in 3D Printing & Additive Manufacturing Technology”.
Tapas Sahu, Chairman, CII Jharkhand State Council, MD & CEO, Highco Engineers Pvt Ltd said that India being at the forefront of the next technology revolution through a thriving startup ecosystem is likely to further spur the growth and innovation. Industry 4.0 in its various forms is making its way into the ‘Indian way’ of doing business. Digital technology, Augmented Reality, Use of robots, Artificial Intelligence, Machine learning etc. are areas of great intrigue and significant investment that are being made by companies across sectors. Manufacturing will be transformed from single automated cells to fully integrated, automated facilities that communicate with one another and boost flexibility, speed, productivity and quality.
Ram Phal Nehra, Convenor, CII Jharkhand Manufacturing & Engineering Panel & Plant Manager – Director, Tata Cummins Pvt Ltd said that in order to remain globally competitive, the Indian manufacturing sector will have to strategise and plan how to take advantage of automation to leapfrog over the present labour intensive and uncertain manufacturing paradigms to a “smart” set up. Manufacturing companies will have to earmark additional investments and skills to take this leap and be a part of the “smart” world.
Ranjot Singh, Chairman, CII Jamshedpur Zonal Council & Managing Director, Emdet Jamshedpur Pvt Ltd said that MSME manufacturing firms have been imperative to the growth of the Indian economy. These small to medium-sized ventures have always contributed largely to the country’s GDP, and to different aspects of its development. The Indian MSME sector contributes about 29 percent towards the GDP through national and international trade. As per MSME Ministry data, as of May 16, 2021, India has approximately 6.3 crore MSMEs (including both service and manufacturing firms). It must be noted that this sector still has a lot of unexplored territories for growth.
Ujjal Chakraborti, Managing Director, JCAPCPL in his address on Manufacturing industry perspective said that deliberating on the future of Manufacturing in our country, we feel that the future trends rest in faster adoption of technologies that would reduce the turnaround time, with improved quality standards. Access to Technology and increase in Automation in the sector would help boost the growth and enhance the contribution to the global economy as well. The major pillars which will lead to a transformation in Manufacturing are 4S viz a viz Scale; Skill; Sustainability; Science & Technology.
Ravish Sharma, Chief Operating Officer, ESL Steel Ltd said that hand holding the stratups in the present times will act as a building ground for the future of manufacturing. For the future of manufacturing the importance of skilling the youths in country should be the focus which would act as a building milestone.
Sudhanshu Mohanty, Co-Convenor – CII Jharkhand Manufacturing & Engineering Panel & GM – Supply Chain, Tata Motors Ltd said that manufacturing has evolved over the centuries, from human-centered methods to machine-reliant assembly lines to the highly automated factories we’re beginning to see more of today. And the industry continues to evolve. Indeed, a number of trends are combining to transform manufacturing and, together, these trends can be referred to as “Industry 4.0
Over 120 delegates participated in this important forum.
The other important dignitaries who addressed the 5th CII Jharkhand Manufacturing Conclave included Umesh Kumar Singh, Vice Chairman, CII Jamshedpur Zonal Council & Managing Director, The Tata Pigments Ltd ; Sarajit Jha, Chief – Business Transformation & Digital Solutions, Tata Steel Limited ; Ramesh J, Product Head – Industry 4.0, Micromatic Machine Tools Pvt. Ltd.; Pankaj S Jain, Sr. Technical Manager, IBM Sustainability Software Solutions, IBM ; Rakesh Sharma, General Manager – Shared Services, The ISWP Ltd ; Pradosh Mohanty, General Manager, Head Transmission Factory, Tata Motors Limited ; Sharad Kumar Singh, General Manager (Technical Services), Tata Motors Limited; Varun Punjani, Head – Business Development, South Asia Universal Robots India Pvt. Ltd ; Pranay Kumar, Head-Heavy Fabrication and Machining, KGP, Tata Hitachi Construction Machinery Company Pvt Ltd and Nikhil Chowdary, AM Client Partner, Wipro 3D – Wipro Infrastructure Engineering, Wipro Enterprises (P) Limited.
