“Technology Overtake the Manual Process” Ashok C S Raj, President – Euroclydon Technologies Pvt. Ltd & Convener – E-manufacturing Technology
Let technology overtake manual process
Technology has greatly impacted almost every aspect of human life, we as a nation have embraced it in area of tele communication. Today in order to locate a person without a mobile phone will be like searching for a needle in the hay stack. Unfortunately, although Indians have been forerunners of technology advancement all over the world, as a nation we have been slow in imbibing technology in all its facets where it has the greatest impact. The best example where we have been slow is the manufacturing sector and this has resulted in several core industry requirement shift focus to South Asian suppliers.
Integrated Technology facilitates a manufacturing process by helping achieve consistent quality, on time completion with the efficient use of resources. We are content with going in for CNC machines but we forget that CNC machines need to be complimented with the peripheral technological aids to achieve world class results.
Technology is the modern age Genie. Hence, we must ensure that it remains an effective slave to human control and not be enslaved or ensnared by it. This implies establishing a technologically adequate automated process with effective monitoring.
Challenges faced by Indian companies
We are a nation sitting on a gold mine affordable skilled resources (but fast dwindling now with the strong advent of BPO’s). As a result we have created skilled manual interlinks in our manufacturing processes on the pseudo thinking that this will reduce costs. The effect – failure on both the crucial fronts of quality and timeliness. The result – LOST BUSINESS.
Indian industry needs to move out of this cocoon by introducing relevant technological interfaces in their process. Simultaneously, keeping in focus the available gold (skilled resources), we need to channel them through training into the higher level responsibility of monitoring.
Adoption of the latest technology
The Indian industry is generally paranoid on the cost of procurement without realizing the overall cost of ownership, hence, they need to be carefully cultured to appreciate the advantages and impact of an integrated technology approach in the manufacturing process. This cannot be accomplished by a single player – say Machine tool manufacturer – in isolation. We have before us the classic case of Indian hockey, once on top of the world. Our teams, individual brilliance but with inadequate team work, was exploited by the western teams displaying excellent team work. Indian industry will accept proofs not promises and proofs can be demonstrated only when complimentary players come together to understand a customers real needs and offer a technology solution in synergy.
Holistic education of customers can alone create the required break through – united approach by complimentary technology players to create awareness through exhibitions/ seminars, to demonstrating jointly pilot proofs and finally training to ensure goals are effectively realized.
At E-manufacturing Technology
In a small but significant way forward the ‘e- manufacturing technology’ panel has started this unique journey towards demonstrating the power of integrated approach to offer technology in synergy with customer’s actual needs on the vehicle of ‘Global Industrial Expo’. We believe this is just a beginning and that others would join us along the way even in other technology areas. The ultimate vision is to see our nation positioned among the top most technology leaders in the world. We have the intelligence, we have the technology providers, we have the resources – we only need the empowerment through unity to align these strengths towards the vision.
Message to Indian machine tool professionals
Let’s focus on the alliance of the technology we bring to the customer rather than its diversity. In union is strength and success.
