Technology Shaping the Future of Indian Industry
07 May 2022 Technology plays a fundamental role in wealth creation and improving the quality of life, thereby driving real economic growth and transformation in any society. Over the past few years, the highly evolved digital era has resulted in unprecedented changes in the technology businesses and the society as a whole. India aspires to […]
Community: Taking Corporate Citizenship to the Next Level
09 May 2022 Community involvement or engagement is a key pillar of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), wherein companies incorporate social and environmental goals in their business decisions and operations. While CSR today has become a business imperative in the community engagement aspect of CSR, the focus overwhelmingly lies on communities and their betterment. This, in […]
Healthcare: Technology Delivering Next Level Healthcare
12 May 2022 Over the years, emerging technologies, innovation, scientific breakthroughs, and new business models have dramatically transformed the healthcare industry. Some of the top trends that are fast revolutionizing the field of healthcare, range from availability of information and Big Data, integrated medical records, improved communications, automated processes, among others. As rapid advancements in […]
Mechanical ventilation system for Post COVID Era
30 Jun 2021 COVID-19, the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, a pandemic declared by the WHO, brought into focus, rather sharply, on not only how quickly but also how effectively we are creating & adapting the ‘new normal’. HVAC systems can have a major effect on the transmission of infectious microscopic airborne particles and […]
Industry Needs to Calibrate and Transform
01 Jul 2021 The COVID-19 pandemic is the defining global health crisis and the greatest challenge we have faced since the World War II. The virus has unleashed socio-economic effects that have devastated lives and livelihoods beyond just health, undoing decades of global progress. The second wave of infections derailed economies and impacted lives again, […]
Pathway for re-energizing tourism and hospitality sector
08 Jul 2021 Travel – a hobby to many and a need for some of us – has slowed down ever since the pandemic struck. The longing to travel, however, has grown more than ever in many of us. Tourism and hospitality has been one of the key sectors of the services economy. Although the […]
Competitiveness: A Measure of India’s Increasing Prosperity
12 May 2022 Competitiveness is a way to measure any nation’s productivity and is indicative of its prosperity. Competitiveness results in growth and improved income levels, helping economies grow more sustainably and inclusively. In today’s globalized environment, competitiveness is the key to the survival of businesses and a country’s economy. The Indian industry, especially the […]
A New Industrial Policy for Building Back Better
13 Jul 2021 COVID-19 and the containment policies adopted to address it have imposed a significant cost on the Indian economy. GDP is estimated to have contracted by 7.3 per cent in 2020-21. The loss of employment and incomes, as documented by multiple surveys such as the CMIE’s Consumer Pyramids Household Survey and the Azim […]
Benefits of Planned Maintenance: The TPM Approach
16 Jul 2021 Breakdowns forms one of the major losses which carve into machine availability affecting the overall equipment efficiency. A detailed analysis was done by the CII Institute of Quality (CII-IQ) covering around 70 Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) practicing companies from both domestic and overseas. The data covers various segments of industry and is summarized in […]
Indian Process Industry: Using TPM Methodology for Sustainable Profit Growth
20 Jul 2021 Introduced in the year 1969 in Nippon Denso, Japan, the primary focus of Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) is to establish the concept of Zero Failure of Equipment extending to Production Efficiency Enhancement. Adopted in 1991 by the Cement Industry in India, CII in collaboration with Japan Institute of Plant Maintenance (JIPM) created […]