Achieving Manufacturing Excellence
As manufacturing goes digital, it will allow things to be made more economically, in much smaller numbers, more flexibly and with less labour. Sensible, intelligent automation is possible in manufacturing, says B. Santhanam, Managing Director, Saint-Gobain Glass India Ltd. “Future factories may look more like those of weavers’ cottages than Ford assembly lines.”
K. Nandakumar, President, Automation Industry Association, says that for a $2 trillion GDP economy, the share of manufacturing sector was only 16 per cent and contributing 12 per cent of total employment. In comparison, China’s manufacturing sector contributes to nearly 35 per cent of that country’s GDP and in Thailand it is nearly 40 per cent. “If we do not bring employment generation from manufacturing sector to nearly 20 per cent in the next decade, it will create social problems.”
Mr Santhanam, Mr Nandakumar and other eminent speakers shared their vision, success stories, insights and inspiration with leaders in the Manufacturing Industry. AIA knitted together the theme as the Knowledge Partner of the Conference “Achieving Manufacturing Excellence & Increased Return on Investment through Industrial Automation” organised by CII Southern Region at the Hotel Park Sheraton on 25th August 2012.
Kindly download the speakers presentations by clicking on the relevant topic.
Topics and Presentations
| Download the Presentation | Topics | Speaker |
| Welcome and Theme Address |
Ms Uma Balakrishnan |
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Special Address – Industrial Growth, Holistic Development and Automation |
Mr K Nandakumar |
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Keynote Address – Business Leadership, Manufacturing Excellence and Automation | Mr B Santhanam Dy Chairman, CII-SR & MD, Saint-Gobain Glass India Ltd |
Session-I: Exploring an Automation Strategy
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Understanding strategic relevance of industrial automation investments in driving manufacturing excellence |
Mr N Ramachandran |
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Holistic approach to address old & new plants with varied pedigree of plant equipment, control technologies and people skills. |
Mr R K Raina |
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Best practices and global standards in the Automation Industry |
Mr Vijay Srinivasan |
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Financial exploration and ROI / EVA expectation from a chosen strategy | Mr V Ramanathan General Manager – Operations Wabco India Limited |
Session –II (a): Sectoral Case Studies
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Implementing Lean Manufacturing for higher throughput |
Mr Manish Ramakrishnan |
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Integrated Control and Supervision of Manufacturing Facility |
Mr B K Shashikumar |
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Industrial Solutions - from Sensors to Services |
Mr Amit Verma |
Session –II (b): Sectoral Case Studies
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Regulatory compliance and benefits of Manufacturing transparency through Automation systems |
Mr Manoj Kumar Lal |
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Good practices in energy management and efficient execution with Automation |
Mr Shibu George |
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Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV) systems in Lean assembly operations |
Mr A Suresh Assistant GM – PPC TVS Motor Ltd (supported by Hitech Robotic Systemz Ltd) |
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ARC Hyderabad Forum 2012
AIA President spoke at ARC's Tenth India Forum
The AIA President delivered the keynote address at the ARC Forum on July 6, at Hyderabad on the theme ' Transforming Industry and Infrastructure Keynote Presentations.
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AIA President Speaks at ARC's 9th India Forum
The AIA President, Mr V. V. Paranjape delivered the keynote address at the ARC Forum on August 2nd, at Pune. Addressing the theme ' Gaining Sustainable Competitiveness and Achieving Operational Excellence', Mr Paranjape focussed on the Digital Manufacturing Vision, its impact and challenges.
Click here to view his presentation.
Operational excellence is an ongoing process even in the best of times and in today’s integrated and turbulent world, the need for companies to pursue continuous improvements is even greater. How companies design, engineer, source, make, and distribute products, and manage their assets, ultimately determines their success. Playing a crucial role are the people and processes, well supported by enabling technologies
India’s automotive, auto components, and machinery industries, which are poised to post robust growths in the years to come, have opportunities to emerge as best-in-class. While domestic demand drives industries’ growth, their challenge is protecting their margins and gaining global competitiveness. The entire Design-Operate-Maintain cycle will need to be continuously addressed to discover newer ways to delight consumers and gain competitiveness. There is a constant need to channel investments into systems and solutions and adopt best global industry practices in order that greater operational performance levels are achieved.
Shortening design and engineering cycle times is critical to reducing manufacturing costs, which essentially means reduced iterative actions necessary to design, manufacture, and deliver products to consumers. Manufacturers will need to invest in technologies and solutions leveraging digital manufacturing, third-party product engineering services, and collaborative production management (CPM/MES) systems, backed up by state-of-the-art factory automation, and supply chain and product life cycle management systems. OEMs must have state-of-the-art plant-floor automation systems and integrate them with enterprise and other decision support systems.
AIA Working Group for Automotive
Besides its own events and Round Tables, AIA supports many initiatives such as the ARC Forum, the Automotive Engineering Show and the AIEC - AIA Skills Enhancement Centre. We have.constituted a Working Group to advise and lead Automation related initiatives specially tailored for the Automotive segment. The group members are listed below
| Sr. No. | Name | Company | Location |
| 1 | Nitin Nair | Siemens Ltd. |
Mumbai |
| 2 | Sadashiv Lad |
Messung Systems Pvt. Ltd. | Pune |
| 3 | Uma Balakrishnan |
Axcend Automation & Software Solutions Pvt. Ltd. | Bangalore |
| 4 | P V Sivaram |
B & R Industrial Automation |
Pune |
| 5 | P Gopalakrishnan |
Emergys Software Pvt. Ltd. |
Chennai |
| 6 | Naresh Kantoor |
Encon Systems International |
Gurgaon |
| 7 | Manoj Dunung |
Festo Controls Pvt. Ltd. |
Bangalore |
| 8 | Sunil Raibagi |
Gudel India Pvt. Ltd. |
Pune |
| 9 | Bipin Jirge |
IFM Electronic India |
Kolhapur |
| 10 | Jayendran Balasubramanian |
NextFirst Engineering Technologies Pvt. Ltd. | Bangalore |
| 11 | Pradeep Arora | Turck India Automation Pvt. Ltd. |
Pune |
| 12 | Nominee Awaited | PARI | Pune |
If you are an active user, researcher or a related subject matter expert, we shall be interested in getting your needs and ideas across to these members. Please write in to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it
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SME India Outlook 2011
10th February 2011 | Novotel Mumbai Juhu Beach
‘SME India Outlook 2011’ has disclosed the opportunities that Small & Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in India can leverage for operational excellence, through smart IT & Automation technologies.
AIA was a knowledge partner for this event. AIA members serving the SME sector were invited to participate and showcase best fit technologies and solutions.
Program Details
| Name | Designation, Company | Presentation - Click to Download |
| V Srinivasan | Managing Director, India Subcontinent, Invensys India Pvt. Ltd. | Achieving Operational Excellence in Manufacturing |
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K Nandakumar |
Vice President, Chemtrols Industries Ltd | available soon... |
| D Hambardikar |
Messung Systems Pvt. Ltd. |
available soon... |
| Milind Kulkarni |
A&D Division, Siemens Limited | available soon... |
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ARC's Sixth India Forum
July 23-25, 2009 - Hyderabad, India
Paper on Automation Systems Help You Drive Performance and Emerge Best-in-Class presented by Sunil Khanna, President, Automation Industries Association (AIA) and Managing Director, Emerson Process Management India
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Workshop on Process Control Instrumentation and Process Optimization in Fertiliser Industry, Bengaluru Thursday, 23 rd July 2009
(Knowledge Partner : Automation Industry Association (AIA)
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Automation & Instrumentation India 2007 Exhibition
Feb 2007, New Delhi
AIA member-companies showcased unique solutions at the 'Automation & Instrumentation India 2007 Exhibition' to facilitate process manufacturing and consumer industries in India become more globally competitive. The exhibition organized by the Confederation of Indian Industries (CII) at Pragati Maidan in the Capital, focused on asset management, information integration, quality control, regulatory and safety compliance among other related issues. AIA Director, Anup Wadhwa explored areas of cooperation with ACMA representatives.
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Jan 2007 Mumbai
AIA Founder Member Sunil Khanna spoke about the challenge that auto manufacturers are facing today.Though there are certainly a number of automation and information technology solutions available, the automobile supply chain is still full of hurdles when it comes to passing information from ancillary units to the shop floor. If it takes just 72 hours to actually build and assemble a car in the manufacturer's shop floor why does it take 6 weeks for most cars to get delivered to the show room once the order is placed?
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Nov 2006, Mumbai
Key decision makers from different industries, suppliers of automation systems and enterprise solutions, and other stakeholders such as engineering consultants and policy makers deliberated, discussed, shared experiences, and formulated strategies to succeed in these challenging but opportune times. JP Singh, AIA President outlined the strategy being pursued by AIA.
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November 2006, Ahemdabad
This Seminar was designed for ITAMMA members. About 75 delegates represented metal and plastic component manufacturing for the textile industry explored the benefits of making strategic investments in automation technology. Vikram Singh, AIA facilitator, supported by Piyush Sheth made a lucid presentation.