"Engineering the right product" programe @ Tiruchi
Tirchi:NIT-T Director M. Chidambaram, left, and Thanga Jawahar Kalidoss, Head, Product and Process Engineering, Tata Consultancy Services, Chennai, at the launch of a programe in Tiruchi on Monday. "Engineering the right product" and "manufacturing the product right" are the stiffest challenges that manufacturing companies the world over face, according to Thanga Jawahar Kalidoss, Head, Product and Process Engineering, Tata Consultancy Services, Chennai. Delivering the keynote address at the inaugural of a five-day AICTE-sponsored Quality Improvement Programme on `Recent Trends in Manufacturing Management' organised by the Department of Production Engineering, National Institute of Technology - Tiruchi (NIT-T), here on Monday, Mr. Jawahar said fierce competition in the market place was forcing the companies to operate at the highest threshold level both in product design and production.
Time to market, access to innovation and competitiveness are emerging as critical business imperatives. Increased investments in the Product Life Cycle Management technologies were a clear trend in the market place. Wider adoption and acceptance of techniques like Design of Experiments was another industry trend, which moved the computer-aided engineering analysis technology from design validation phase to engineering an optimised design solution space. Likewise, emergence and adoption of time compression technologies for prototype manufacturing were a clear market trend.
Globalisation had increased the stress placed on producers. Outsourcing, insourcing, and offshoring had become ubiquitous, and manufacturers in all areas of the world were now competing aggressively for end user buyers or to be an integral component in a product supply chain.Manufacturing was a worldwide race favouring those firms that are cost-efficient, agile, lean, structured, process-oriented, and technology-oriented, and had created a culture that incessantly strives for excellence. Competing in a global workplace demanded continuous improvements in processes, operations, people, and technology.
Recognition of India's role in the world market clearly indicated the emergence of significant manufacturing opportunities. Indian manufacturing and engineering services industry was going through a critical phase and the value of capable manufacturing engineers was more than ever before.Inaugurating the programme, the Director of NIT-T, M. Chidambaram said the Institute had plans to invite visiting professors under Technical Education Quality Improvement Programme from reputed universities in Singapore, the United States, the UK and Canada to train the faculty in setting up advanced laboratories and curriculum development.He invited active participation of industry in the Institute's endeavour.T. Selvaraj, Head, Department of Production Engineering, and S. Kumanan, Professor, spoke.
