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As the global manufacturing industry is at the cusp of a major technological transformation, digitisation and smart manufacturing will help build Brand India, industry representatives said at the National Business Excellence Conclave 2016 and KN Shenoy Oration, organised by CII Institute of Quality, here on Monday.
“Five mega trends will shape the future – digitisation, economic power shift from West to East, widening economic disparity, changing relationship between us and our planet and urbanisation. These mega trends have brought into focus digitisation and smart manufacturing. We need digital technology to be more competitive, faster to market and improve quality. This will build brand India,” said Kamal Bali, Managing Director, Volvo India.
“There is urgent need for pragmatic policy, adoption of best practices from successful countries, defining a vision for manufacturing and identifying some champion industries to drive positive impact on the entire ecosystem,” he added.
Global competition Sunil Mathur, Managing Director, Siemens India, said: “Manufacturing continues to evolve and it has become much more complex as customers have become much more demanding and discerning. Today there are Indian manufacturers capable of competing on a global scale, but unfortunately for us, they are too few. With 1.3 billion people, a workforce of around 500 million and a young intelligent population, India has it all. Yet somehow we are not seen as a country of manufacturers.”
He said that if manufacturing moved out of the cities and into the towns, it would revolutionise the economy of the country. “Today manufacturing contributes around $300 billion to India’s two trillion economy. The target is to increase the contribution of manufacturing to a trillion dollars by 2025,” he said.
Industry 4.0 As the world is moving towards industry 4.0, India will also have to move with it if ‘Make in India’ has to succeed. This will mean that we have to adopt and adapt new technologies not only in our manufacturing but right through our supply chains. Thus, manufacturing in India will only succeed if SMEs step up to the challenge,” Mathur said.
He pointed out that in India children are taught outdated technologies. Skill development is vital in our journey towards building Brand India and competitiveness.
R Mukundan, Managing Director, Tata Chemicals Ltd, said the key task would be to create an organisational culture around quality as the stage is now set for smart manufacturing and smart factories.
“The latest manufacturing revelation will fundamentally change how products are invented, manufactured, shipped and sold and this will make zero emission, zero incident manufacturing possible,” he added.
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