FICCI emphasises on adoption of digital technologies for manufacturing excellence

By OEM Update Editorial April 21, 2021 12:32 pm IST

FICCI-EFESO has launched a survey report of the Manufacturing Excellence in India during a virtual event on ‘FICCI-UNIDO Dialogue on Swachh Udyog- Manufacturing Excellence in India’. There’s a need to push the Make in India initiative and the Atmanirbhar Bharat programmes to create a balance in Indian manufacturing ecosystem, said V K Saraswat, Member, NITI Aayog is a recent statement. “A service-based economy is prone to market risks and manufacturing is going to facilitate a stronger and stable growth. Aatma Nirbhar Bharat calls for high reliance on imports that limits our holistic growth, hence we need to have more indigenous production,” he added. Addressing the virtual ‘FICCI-UNIDO Dialogue on Swachh Udyog- Manufacturing Excellence in India’, Saraswat said that Make in India through Industry 4.0 is an important transition in the manufacturing sector that will bring new technologies, new operations, and will impact all sectors. This will bring competitiveness, AatmaNirbhar Bharat, and make our manufacturing sector a bigger contributor to the GDP, he added. While highlighting the manufacturing vision of 2030, Saraswat said that we will see factories that are green and sustainable. Factories should be in areas that are closer to both the workers and the customers. The Indian production system should be design-oriented, he added. Further on, he said that our Industry 4.0 must be a human and process-oriented simulation and digitalization to ensure a major role for the workers. The 6-R approach in the manufacturing sector includes re-manufacture, redesign, recover, recycle, re-use and reduce and is what we want to achieve by 2030-35, added Saraswat. He further stated that R&D plays a crucial role in the manufacturing and there is a need for smart manufacturing R&D centres to showcase new technologies so that industries can use them to grow further. “This will also help in proving AatmaNirbhar Bharat in these areas and we will not be dependent on importing these technologies,” he said.