Chandigarh, Feb 17 (KNN) National Productivity week is being celebrated by National Productivity Council (NPC) Chandigarh (Under Ministry of Commerce and Industry) in Jammu.

The National Productivity week is underway from February 12 to 18, 2020.

A workshop on “Productivity improvement through Lean Manufacturing and Smart Manufacturing (Industry 4.0)” was organised at the conference hall of Bari Brahmana Industries Association, Jammu on February 17, 2020, in association with BBIA and MSME-DI.

In the workshop, three tools and concepts for improving the productivity of industries were discussed. They are as follows: Smart Manufacturing and their implementation; Industry 4.0; Lean manufacturing tools and techniques and their implementation with case studies.

The program was inaugurated by Lalit Mahajan, President, BBIA, Jammu and while inaugurating the program Lalit Mahajan urged the industries to implement Lean Manufacturing tools and techniques to reduce wastages and improve profitability.

S. P Singh, Regional Director, NPC, Chandigarh discussed significance of celebrating productivity week and explained different methods of improving productivity in different organisations/industries.

Mr. Mohit Kumar, Assistant Director, MSME-DI, Jammu explained benefits of implementation of Lean Manufacturing in MSMEs and discussed various schemes of DC-MSME, Govt. of India.

R.S. Solanki Lean Management Consultant briefed about different techniques of Lean Manufacturing and discussed cases of successful lean implementation in MSME industries under LMCS Scheme.

Ankur Dhir, Senior Consultant discussed the methods to implement Smart Manufacturing and shared videos on Industries 4.0.

About 60 participants from different industries in Jammu region participated in the workshop.  S.P Singh, Regional Director, NPC, Chandigarh thanked BBIA and MSME-DI, Jammu (J&K) for organising this workshop in Jammu.

While interacting with the participants, Ashwani Kumar Sharma, IES, Incharge MSME-DI, Jammu expected that industries will be benefited by the inputs provided by the experts in the workshop.

Several other dignitaries like  Ajay Langar, Vice President, BBIA,  Viraaj Malhotra, General Secretary, BBIA,  Rajesh Jain, Secretary, BBIA, Yogesh Aggarwal, MD, A.M Industries, Gurmeet Singh, Plant Head, Dabur India Ltd, Nazir Pathan, Plant Head, Zuventus Healthcare Ltd, and other prominent industrialists participated in the workshop. (KNN/SS)

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