Mr. S.J. Sequeira, Managing Director, AIFCOSPIN, addressing the gathering
On October 26, AIFCOSPIN in collaboration with Bombay Textile Research Association (BTRA) held one-day technical seminar, Pragati’10 at Kolhapur. The seminar was primarily to address the changing needs of the textile industry and thereby improve the decision making skills and administrative competencies of practising managers in cooperative sectors. A good number of participants, around 100, from twenty to thirty one organizations were a part of this one-day event.
The chief guest, Mr. S.J. Sequeira, Managing Director of AIFCOSPIN and all attendee have observed a minute silence and paid their respect to late R.B. Kulagod, former Vice President of AIFCOSPIN, late Abdul Hakim, ex-Technical Officer of AIFCOSPIN and late S.M. Dalal, ex-Sr. Scientist of BTRA.
In his inaugural address, the chief guest for the occasion, Mr. R.N. Deshpande, AIFCOSPIN President, said: “The textile industry in large and co-op. spg. sector is among the worst affected (during the slowdown, high rise in cotton price) and several mills have been forced to curtail their output against a raising cost at the face of a falling demand, while a few weaker ones had to close down in 2008-09.
Interactive sessions conducted during the seminar
This has turned out abruptly to be a favourable to the cooperative industry in 2009-10. The demand of yarn has grown substantially till then to now, which has stimulated the weaker unit to pull-up the shutter to enter into the upbeat market. It is always advisable to produce value added products and optimise the cost of production to fetch the better return out of existing machinery in the unit. The concepts of benchmark quality are prime mantra for the survival in the industry, he said.
Thus, it was only befitting that the seminar be held at such times to open new arenas of quality development and quality improvement through value addition and cost optimising of the produced yarn.
He further added that the mantra for a transformational change is the adoption of cost effective modern scientific practise at every stage of processing, packaging and acquisition of profitable marketing strategies.
The Executive Director of DKTE Society’s Textile and Engineering Institute, Ichalkaraji, Prof. (Dr.) C.D. Kane, Mr. D.K. Kadam, Mr. A.B. Chalukya and Mr. Asoke Rao Mane, members of the AIFCOSPIN’s governing body, graced the occasion with their presence.
The 1st technical session started under the chairmanship of Mr. A.B. Chalukya, Managing Director of Sagareshwar S.S. Girani Ltd., and subsequently the second session after lunch was chaired by Mr. Atanu Bhattacharyya of Kalki Automation, Chennai. The various speakers have delivered their analysis and thought to the participants and meaningful interactive session after the tea break, chaired by Mr. T.K. Dhar, has the biggest success for the delegates.
The group photograph taken with the organisers, speakers and sponsors
The speakers have strongly emphasized on significant of value addition (in the form of doubling, compact spinning, fancy yarns and technical yarns) and forward integration (such as knitting, weaving, processing and garmenting) of produced yarn, optimizing the cost of the product, motivation an important managerial function, total productive maintenance and discipline of the management, air engineering and state-of-the-art machinery for the production of twisted, compact, fancy yarn is the today’s art of living in the present day’s market. However, Conservation of Utility is one of the most valuable chapter of the first session were discussed in length and attracted delegates immensely.
It is, on the other way, today’s requirement to establish of world class manufacturing in the spinning industry to gain the financial strength in cooperative sector, which was always shown a lower score than its private sector counter parts, by identifying the performance and quality benchmark.
The assessment of crucial activities like cost control (JIT logistic, maximum bench mark quality at source, etc.), quality (statistical process control, full-proofing to prevent errors and causes of product defects) and external flexibility (time for customer order to delivery, delivery frequency and reliability to customer suppliers). Inventory holding, number of defects and rework – cost involve in it, customer return rates are the indicators to measure the critical factors towards WCM process.
A meaningful seminar draws its day end with a valedictory speech from Mr. Sequeira.
