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Cover Story
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Strengthening Ties
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Winning Strokes
Sharpen Edge
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Birthday List
Congratulations
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View Points
Creations
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Face of the Quarter
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Editorial
SIGMA FREUDENBERG NOK PVT. LTDInside...
Darpan
(Quarterly Newsletter)
Newsletter No.SFN/0409/001 April, 2009
“Safety is as simple as ABC - Always Be Careful”.
ED’s Desk
Every Journey begins with the First Step, and
this is my first message to you through this
NEWSLETTER which should help us getting
to know each other better, and keep all of us
informed about the business environment in
which we operate. This will also prepare us to
face all possible eventualities in the future.
I know we have accomplished many things together over the past years and
have always supported each other in all ups & downs. This news letter is
the best forum where I can acknowledge our commitment to excellence and
customer satisfaction, which is the foundation of whatever we do. The corner
stone of this foundation is the unique relation we develop with our work place
and profile in every representation.
Apprehension & fear take away courage and make great performance impossible.
This organization has been busy with many projects and the journey
continues. But with pride in our achievement, confidence in our capabilities
and commitment to achieve higher goals, I am proud to lead this team. We
will convert every target into a memorable victory.
Doubt and hesitation makes decision making difficult & causes procrastination.
We should be proud of being an important part of this great organization
where we experience hard work, dedication, career guidance, positive thinking,
empowerment, and meaningful networking.
We need to say thanks to great almighty and our families who are always with
us as inspiration and induce confidence.
R. K. SUD
(Executive Director)
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“Safety is free - Use it generously”.
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RECESSION... NOT DEPRESSION
April, 2009
Cover Story
Broadly defined a recession is a downturn in a nation’s economic activity, where the consequences
typically include increased un-employment, decreased consumers, declining stock
prices and recovery in market is slow.
The National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) formally defines a recession as three
consecutive quarters of falling values of gross domestic product (GDP). During recession the inflation
in the market & the interest rate in various banking operation may decline which can result
in drop in profits & dividend values for many organizations.
Excellent strategies by Indian automobile sector has overturned the threat of recession in Indian
market.
Maruti Suzuki has not seen a good sales figure in last few months but has shown positive figure
compared to last financial Year, and still expect around 1.5% higher sales over the previous
financial year. Hero Honda grows at 11 % against the entire two wheeler industry which grew by
1.7 % for the first 11 months of FY 2008-09.
Analyst says that Hero Honda celebrating 25th anniversary this year managed the downturn this
year by following strategical marketing plans like 50:50 Rural-Urban sales, focus on 100cc bikes
& encashing brand equity.
TVS Motors posted 2% growth where as Honda Motorcycle & Scooter (HMSIL) the makers of
Activa made 2.4% growth in the month of March,09 which includes domestic sales & export both.
Hyundai, the country’s second largest car maker was able to maintain sales momentum of
45.3% growth in February.
Meanwhile Tata Motors has launched NANO the world’s cheapest car but its sales fell 4% with
the company’s selling 23,680 units in domestic market. The company had bounced back in February
with sales growth of 1.4%.
Honda Siel saw sales got a boost 17% in March when it sold 7368 units in March 2009 against
5579 units in February.
The new Honda City has emerged as an exemplary performer even in this challenging time,
sales of the Honda city has grown by 20% ever since the deliveries started in November 2008.
The success of XYLO made M&M saw its passenger utility vehicle sales grow by 30 %. However
sales of Renault’s Logan for March dipped 69% to 962 units over the same month last year.
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TATA NANO
“Failing to prepare = Prepare to fail”.
April, 2009
Cover Story
In last quarter many important customers visited our plant . From Brazil one of the biggest aftermarket
autoparts manufacturer , International team of TATA Landrover and people from TATA
NANO. All of them have shown interest for further bussiness with SFN. TATA Landrover has
immediately called our technical team to initiate further business talks.
SFN has signed single source supplier status
for next five years for engine and transmission
seals. We are one of the prestigious
auto component manufacturers to achieve
such status.
We have also received purchase order for engine
seal for Nano diesel and Nano Europa.
RECESSION... NOT DEPRESSION
Indian Government & RBI have taken various policy measures to counter the effect of recession.
However the Market leaders are playing all the cards very carefully as the world wide
economic deceleration may cause some more downgrades over next few months.
“The Export oriented sectors textiles, automobiles & auto auxiliaries as well as real estate may
see more downgrades” said Mr. P K Chaudhury, vice chairman & group CEO, ICRA, another
top rating agency.
We believe that together we can & we will definitely score over the
possible down grades and beat the effect of recession
SO, go ahead!!
Strengthening Ties
gesa ;g crkus esa xoZ egl wl gksrk g S fd SFN us TATA NANO ds lkFk batu rFkk Vªkalfe’ku lhy ds
fy, ik ¡p oÔksZa dk ,d òksr l qiyk;j gksus dk vu qca/k gLrk{kfjr dj fy;k g SA ge , slh miyfC/k çkIr
djus okys dqN ,d çfrf"Br v WkVks ?kVd fuekZrkvksa esa ls ,d g SA gesa usuks Mhty vk Sj usuks ; wjksi ds
fy, Hkh lhy r S;kj djus dk vkns’k çkIr g qvk g SA
SFN is working with all the up-coming projects of global automotive manufacturers in India.
SFN Hkkjr esa o Sf’od Lrj ds eksVj okgu fuekZrkvksa ls vk jgh ifj;kstukvksa ds mij dke dj jgk g SA
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Strengthening Ties
FIAT:
MARUTI:
GENERAL MOTORS:
FORD:
DAIMLER:
“Safety is the state of mind - Accidents are the absence of Mind”.
SFN has signed single source status. All the samples
are already approved. Within short time regular production
will start.
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ls gh lc ue wuksa dks eaat +wjh fey p qdh g SA tYnh gh
fuef;r :i ls mRiknu Óq: gks tk,xkA
Maruti has launched the new A-Star with K B Series Engine.
Many of the new Maruti Suzuki projects will have
the same Engine. In near future due to this production
of Crank seal will go up at SFN.
Ekk:rh us ,d ubZ dkj “, LVkj” Óq: dh g S ftlesa KB
Series Engine yxrk g SA bl bZatu ds fy, Crank seal
dk ,dy L×kksr SFN gh g SA bl otg ls SFN esa bl
SEAL dk mRiknu vkus okys fnuksa esa c< + tk,xkA
SFN has received purchase order for GM small Car engine & transmission seal. In
this project too, SFN has been chosen as the single source. In days to come GM
small car has the potential to lead the world Market. SFN has developed the seals
and they are under testing. GM dh NksVh dkj ds Engine vk Sj Transmission Seal
ds fy, [kjhn vkns’k çkIr g qvk g SA bl ifj;kstuk ds fy, Hkh SFN dks ,dYk L×kksr
ds :Ik esa Pk quk x;k g SA vkus okys fnuksa esa GM dh NksVh dkj fo’o ckt +kj dk
usr `Ro djsxhA
Sigma engine : For another prestigious project of Ford, SFN has been chosen
as vendor for for seals to be used in their Sigma Engine. This seal will
be manufactured in India at SFN for all future requirements for Ford Sigma
Engine which is presently used in Ford Feista , Ford Icon and will be used
for future projects of Ford Small car.
Ford ds ,d çfrf"Br ifj;kstuk ds fy, SFN dks p quk x;k g SA ;g seal
India esa Ford ds fy, SFN gh cuk,xk, tks orZeku esa Ford Fiesta vk Sj
Ford Ikon esa ç;ksx gks jgh g SA buds Hkfo"; dh lHkh vko’;drkvksa vk Sj
NksVh dkj ifj;kstuk ds fy, SFN gh seal cuk,xk A
Commercial vehicles project: SFN is looking forward to develope business
with Daimler commercial vehicles. Discussion regarding engine transmission
and axle seals development is going on. Daimler: Okkf.kfT;d okgu
ifj;kstuk : batu rFkk Vªkalfe’ku seal fodkl çfØ;k ppkZ ds rgr g S A
SFN RECEIVED BEST SUPPLIER AWARD
FROM ENDURANCE SYSTEMS AND WIPRO
INFRASTRUCTURE ENGINEERING AND
MANY OTHERS DURING 2008.
WE ARE PROUD OF THIS ACHEIVEMENT
AND ARE AIMING FOR MANY MORE SUCH
OUTSTANDING AWARDS.
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We list up training into four essential steps to become effective:
April, 2009
Winning Strokes
Production & Maintenance departments have modified existing Pokayokes
for spring checking which gives good control on Part traceability and
Part flow. By doing this, online checking & packaging has also started in
production cells.
The same system will be implemented on shop floor for other parts with in
next four months.
Our Maintenance Dept. has developed a
special purpose machine (SLIM), inhouse
which is a tribute to their team work and capability.
We wish them all the very best !!
The Salient Features of this Machine are :-
• Automatic spring loading on both sides
• 100% Spring Detection by Camera
• Sorting of 6 types of defects
• Higher productivity
• Tell them – what they need to know
• Show them – hands on experience
• Let them do it – in the field and on the job
• And follow it up to be sure they are doing it as told.
Sharpen Edge
Training and Development is an activity aimed towards enhancing the performance of individuals
and groups in the organization.
“We at SFN are also playing the same role for developing our employees. Training in any
business is important and we are proud to say that here at SFN, there has been a contineous
and regular effort to focus on this particular requirement. For individual’s development,
specific trainings are planned. This helps to give them the required and desired
exposure”.
Training here has always been an ongoing and continuous process with regular improvements.
We believe that “everyone here is a trainee as well as a trainer”, because every trained employee
can train other employees in turn.
A trainer must develop a positive attitude towards himself first because you cannot give to others
something that you don’t have yourself. The trainer also has to be convinced that he is contributing
towards the success of the organization. At the same time the trainees too need to have a
learning attitude. The genuine beauty of learning is that we can learn anytime, from anywhere
and from anyone. SO “NEVER STOP LEARNING”.
The trainings here are planned separately for all the levels. In the last quarter, 61 Trainings
were conducted. Out of these, 24 trainings were for management staffs and 37 trainings
for operators.
Shakun Vij
“Even in a hi-tech world your eyes are your greatest asset”.
(TRAINING DEPT.)
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Glimpses of INHOUSE TRAINING
April, 2009
Cost & Budgeting – Mr. R K Sud ( Executive Director ) shared knowlege about Basic Principles of Product Costing
& Zero based Budgeting
OEE - Mr. Ashish Majumdar ( Sr. GM – Operation) shared his views with Engineers on Operational Efficiency Effec-
tiveness.
Executive Health – Mr. R S Khokhar (Corporate GM – HR) emphsized on health and lifestyle which will help keep us
fit and energetic
PLC & HMI- Mr. Vishal Gautam (Engineer- Maintainence) shared specific information about PLC & HMI with Engi-
neers & senior operators working on those M/c.
Emotional Intelligence – A soft training by Mrs. Anju Singh (Asst. Manager- HR) was imparted to managers &
staffs which was on self awarness and interospection.
“Seven days without exercise make one “WEAK” ”.
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“Know safety - No accidents”.
Darpan April, 2009
Apart from all the above a number of Functional & Behavioural trainings were imparted through out the quar-
ter, viz. Lean Manufacturing, Business Ettiquets, Kaizen, SPC and Store Procedure.
IN ADDITION TO THESE A FEW OF OUR EMPLOYEES HAVE BEEN SENT FOR ATTEND-
ING IMPORTANT EXTERNAL TRAININGS ON TPM, QMS, MARUTI PRODUCTION SYS-
TEM, LEADERSHIP & TEAM WORK.
ALL OF THEM HAVE BEEN HIGHLY BENIFITTED WITH THESE TRAININGS AND HAVE
ALSO SHARED THEIR LEARNING WITH OTHER TEAM MEMBERS.
Name Birthday Date
Sumer Kumar malhotra 20 April
Mukesh Aggarwal 20 April
Didar Singh 20 April
Shakun Vij 20 April
Tanveer Asif 21 April
Arun Kumar Sharma 22 April
Varun Misra 22 April
Dheeraj Sharma 22 April
Rajesh Garg 28 April
Sukhvinder Singh 03 May
Vishal Kumar 05 May
Parampreet Singh 06 May
Avinash A. Managoli 23 May
Tejinder Singh Pannu 28 May
Alok Kumar 29 May
Sarwan Singh 31 May
Gautam Ahlawat 01 June
Neeraj Kumar pandey 01 June
P.K. Pati 07 June
G. Venkat esh 10 June
Vinod Bhatt 10 June
Hitender Kumar 12 June
Rajni Gera 15 June
Gurpratap Singh 19 June
K. Jai Ganesh 20 June
Sumit Bansal 21 June
Ravinder Kumar Mago 22 June
Umesh Kumar Dhatwalia 25 June
Mr. Surinder Singh Saini ( Incharge Stores) has successfully completed
his Diploma in Logistic & Supply Chain Management from International
Council of Management Studies. He came out with flying clours and
achieved 1st Class with 63% marks. SFN Team wishes him all the best.
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ds Diploma esa 63% vad ysdj mRrhZ.k g q, g SaA ;g mik/kh mUgsa International
Council Of Management studies , Chennai ls i zkIr g qbZ g SA SFN ifjokj
mUgsa gkfnZd c/kkbZ nsrk g SA
Birthday List
Congratulations
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View Points
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“A timely word may push up stress ..... A loving word may heal & bless”.
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cMk + gh egRo g S !
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SIGMA FREUDENBERG NOK PVT. LTD
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Mr. B. B. Sharma
Mr. Ashish Majumdar
-: Editorial Team :-
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