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Lean Manufacturing Comtitiveness Programme Launched in Faridabad Cluster

SME WORLD Bureau
Apr 2010

Government has decided to introduce Lean Manufacturing Competitiveness (LMC) Program at one thousand clusters across the country. With the criteria of forming a cluster of minimum 10 enterprises to avail the benefits of LMC program, the Government has targetted, in first phase, to make the Lean concept touch at least 10 thousand enterprises across the country.

To achieve this target, Ministry of MSME along with the monitoring body for the LMC programme, National Productivity Council (NPC), is working aggressively. Marching ahead in this campaign, another LMC program has been launched at Faridabad Auto Cluster. To avail the benefits of the programme, 13 units of Faridabad Industries Association (FIA) have formed a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV), a mandatory measure, under the name of Faridabad Lean Manufacturing Industries Co-operative Society.

Terming Lean Manufacturing as a war against waste, S.Pal, Director, NPC, observed that formation of SPV was a tough task and expressed his pleasure that the FIA members had shown their will power. “Every unit has to have the will, commitment, discipline”, he said.

Akshilesh N. Singh , a veteran in the field, has been selected as Lean Consultant of this cluster.

Speaking at launching ceremony of the Program at Faridabad Auto Cluster and signing of the tripartite agreement by SPV, NPC and Singh recently Pal informed that this was the third cluster to launch Lean Cluster Program after Chennai and Ludhiana.

Commitment to Lean

Showing their commitment and faith in Lean techniques the President of the cluster, R.K. Bhan said, “We are committed to learn these techniques. We have to train the entrepreneurs at the grass root level and promise to cooperate with the consultant for maximum yielding of the war against waste.”

Singh also expressed his determination for the Lean initiative at the cluster and said, “it is a great opportunity to translate my experience in easily understandable language. I am confident that all the participant industrial units will gain.” He urged the units to initiate requisite preparations and cooperate to combat with the wastages. “The units have to give up their past experiences. You have to be like a good student – eager to learn new techniques like Lean Management. We have to put our experiences together. Different methodologies are required at different locations. We have to find optimum methodology suitable to your requirements. I seek support from NPC and units of clusters. Let us make unique modal that may suite to the this cluster.”

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