TECQUIP talk on Technological and Manufacturing Excellence

Recently I was invited for a talk in an Engg College in North Bangalore (SKIT) as part of the World Bank sponsored TECQUIP programme. The title of the talk was Technological Excellence and Manufacturing Excellence, where do we stand ? Thoroughly enjoyed it.

SKIT campus near Nagasandra.

If I were to travel the 60 kms in my own car, causing so much of traffic congestion and environmental pollution, it would have been wasting 2-3 hours of morning prime time. On the advice of my friend Prof. Srishail, I took a bus to the nearest metro rail station in Indira Nagar from Koramangala Sony World stop, just 10 minutes.

By 8 AM, I was in the metro train on purple line that took me to Kempegowda station (Majestic) and then on the green line to the last stop, Nagasandra. The trip lasted just 40 minutes sharp. I saved almost 2 hours and 20 minutes on my journey to Chimney Hills, Chikkabavanara on the Hesaraghatta Road. The journey was so cool and comfortable, it happened so fast that I did not get time to read anything on the way. We should really complement the Namma Metro for getting these two lines ready and soon when more routes will be opened for Metro rail traffic, the city will benefit a lot ..

At SKIT, my presentation for the first two hours to a class  of 50 students was on Technological Excellence (luckily had read up material on NASA, JAXA and ISRO's heroic exploits in deep space) and the rest 3 hrs was on Manufacturing Excellence, thanks to Toyota Production philosophy (Lean Manufacturing and Innovation). It included the basic PDCA cycle and game-based experiential learning sessions on 5S (click here), Standard Operating Procedure (SOP click here), Kaizen (Continuous Improvement, click here) and Theory of Constraints (TOC click here) ..

Deming's PDCA cycle ..

It was a good managerial exposure for the students who are in the final year of engineering in the circuit branches of Electrical, Electronics and Telecommunications, Computer Science and Information Technology. These students are in the process of preparing themselves for higher studies and the job market. I am very hopeful, the students too enjoyed it. The TECQUIP Orientation programme which they are undergoing has been initiated with help from the industry at SKIT.

The portal http://www.msmeonline.in is an interesting online education and industrial consulting group setup by my fiend Raju Gundala from NITIE Mumbai, that has been doing great yoemen service to small and medium scale businesses in Bangalore and around the country. Through efforts of Raju Gundala, the technical academic institutions in and around Bangalore are benefiting a lot by getting the right amount of industrial exposure. Hope he will come out with very innovative programmes that can benefit both industries and academic institutions around Bangalore.

With Bangalore being the third largest Indian city in terms of GDP contribution, industrial activity in Bangalore is picking up and manufacturing excellence is the buzzword everywhere. With the industrial titans of Toyota, Bosch and Headquarters of ISRO, there is not better place than Bangalore to be discussing about technological excellence and manufacturing excellence.

George ..