22 Jul 2021 What will lead to the change in the automotive industry? Would it be Artificial Intelligence (AI), Internet of Thing (IoT), alternate fuels, or Electric Vehicles? Or would it be an amalgamation of all these? Let’s find out how each of these aspects will shape the future of…
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Indian Process Industry: Using TPM Methodology for Sustainable Profit Growth
20 Jul 2021 Introduced in the year 1969 in Nippon Denso, Japan, the primary focus of Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) is to establish the concept of Zero Failure of Equipment extending to Production Efficiency Enhancement. Adopted in 1991 by the Cement Industry in India, CII in collaboration with Japan Institute…
Benefits of Planned Maintenance: The TPM Approach
16 Jul 2021 Breakdowns forms one of the major losses which carve into machine availability affecting the overall equipment efficiency. A detailed analysis was done by the CII Institute of Quality (CII-IQ) covering around 70 Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) practicing companies from both domestic and overseas. The data covers various segments of…
A New Industrial Policy for Building Back Better
13 Jul 2021 COVID-19 and the containment policies adopted to address it have imposed a significant cost on the Indian economy. GDP is estimated to have contracted by 7.3 per cent in 2020-21. The loss of employment and incomes, as documented by multiple surveys such as the CMIE’s Consumer Pyramids…
Pathway for re-energizing tourism and hospitality sector
08 Jul 2021 Travel – a hobby to many and a need for some of us – has slowed down ever since the pandemic struck. The longing to travel, however, has grown more than ever in many of us. Tourism and hospitality has been one of the key sectors of…
Industry Needs to Calibrate and Transform
01 Jul 2021 The COVID-19 pandemic is the defining global health crisis and the greatest challenge we have faced since the World War II. The virus has unleashed socio-economic effects that have devastated lives and livelihoods beyond just health, undoing decades of global progress. The second wave of infections derailed…
Mechanical ventilation system for Post COVID Era
30 Jun 2021 COVID-19, the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, a pandemic declared by the WHO, brought into focus, rather sharply, on not only how quickly but also how effectively we are creating & adapting the ‘new normal’. HVAC systems can have a major effect on the transmission of…
Leveraging Next Generation Technologies for Aatmanirbhar Bharat
04 May 2021 The Prime Minister’ vision of reviving growth with self-reliance focuses on five major pillars of development: economy, infrastructure, technology driven systems, vibrant demography and sustained demand. While each of these five pillars are crucial for growth, technology driven systems is one aspect which is critical for the…
Indian Infrastructure Sector: Key to Atmanirbhar Bharat
16 Apr 2021 Paul Krugman in the aftermath of the 2008 great recession wrote, “The usual argument against public works as economic stimulus is that they take too long: by the time you get around to repairing that bridge and upgrading that rail line, the slump is over and the…
E-commerce Empowering SMEs
14 Apr 2021 Digital transformation is no longer a trend or buzz phrase. It is rather the evolution of how business is conducted in the digital age. Consumer preference is shifting from shops, supermarkets, and shopping malls to online marketplaces for the purchase of products, ranging from basic commodities to…