CII Communique - December, 2010

quality
10th TPM National Conference
“A one % increase in
labour efficiency would lead
to substantial improvement in
quality and productivity as in
the case of Total Productive
M a i n t e n a n c e ( T P M )
system,” said Mr Rajeev
Ranjan, Principal Secretary,
Industries, Tamil Nadu, in his
inaugural keynote address
on “Vision for Manufacturing
in Tamil Nadu” at a special
plenary session during the 10th TPM National Conference
organised by the TPM Club India of the Institute of Quality,
Confederation of Indian Industry, on 12-13 October in
Chennai.
Mr Ranjan said the TPM concept needs to be practised
by all manufacturing organisations in order to improve
firm-level competitiveness and also to contribute to
national manufacturing growth. He said that the Indian
manufacturing sector’s contribution to overall GDP was
only 15%, whereas it was 40% in Thailand; 34% in
China and 28% in Malaysia. “We need to increase the
Manufacturing GDP share to 25% in order to achieve a
double digit national GDP growth” he said. As 50% of
the workforce in India was in the manufacturing sector,
enhancing its share in GDP would result in creation of
more jobs in the manufacturing sector, he added.
The Tamil Nadu government, Mr Ranjan said, has formed
the State Manufacturing Competitiveness Council (SMCC)
on the lines of the National Manufacturing Competitiveness
Council, chaired by Dr M K Stalin, Deputy Chief Minister
and co-chaired by Mr Venu Srinivasan, Past President,
CII, and Chairman, TVS Motor Company. The SMCC
would work with industry associations like CII to bring
in best practices in the manufacturing sector to enhance
its global competitiveness, he added. He also said the
state Government was proposing a Business Facilitation
Act in the State to speed up industrial approvals through
a single window system.
Mr Ranjan further added that the Government had, with
industry participation, launched a Skills Mission in the
State to provide skills training to 1 lakh youth. Fifteen
industry sectors had been identified in the State which
required skilled manpower, he said.
Mr T T Ashok, Deputy Chairman, CII Southern Region,
T T Ashok, Dy Chairman, CII (SR) & MD, Taylor Rubber Pvt. Ltd.;
Rajeev Ranjan, Principal Secretary, Industries, Tamil Nadu; and V
Narasimhan, Chairman, TPM Club India, CII & Executive Director,
Brakes India Ltd - Foundry Division
and Managing Director,
Taylor Rubber Pvt. Ltd in
his welcome address said
that CII has pioneered,
piloted and championed the
implementation of various
management philosophies
and practices such as
ISO 9000, Total Quality
Management (TQM), Total
Productive Maintenance
(TPM), Lean Management,
Six Sigma, etc. Mr Ashok said that TPM had supported
Indian Industry in the journey of competitiveness,
especially the Manufacturing Sector.
Speaking on the Indian Manufacturing sector, Mr Ashok
said, that according to CII, the single point agenda for
the development of this sector should be the creation of
100 million jobs by 2025. This would entail the sector
contributing 25% to the GDP (from the present 16%),
which in turn would require a long term average growth
of 11-12% per annum. While it sounded eminently
possible, very few countries in the world have been
able to sustain such growth rates over the long term,
he pointed out.
Mr V Narasimhan, Chairman, TPM Club India, CII, and
Executive Director, Brakes India Ltd - Foundry Division,
highlighted the role of the TPM Club over the years,
and also the achievements of Indian companies which
had adopted TPM as an integral part of their business
strategy.
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