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er through some of the best in-  of the  customer and  the  stock  duce. We  have  also made  our
          dustry practices. We work with   to sell,” he adds.         equipment;  the  auto Electric
          many OEMs on the Kanban sys-  The  team  members  are  pro-  Division that we have is of help
          tem  and  do the  same  with  our  vided  with  some  fundamental  to us when we need to plan for
          suppliers. Our wide  range  of  training,  after which  they are  any automation.”
          dealer networks  plays  a  vital  consistently reviewed  and  up-
          support system.”              dated with the required skills.  Tiding over challenges
          The  company has  a  planning                               Like  all industry players,  Ra-
          system  that helps  it plan  to  SMEs and automation        jamane  Industries,  too,  had
          manufacture   products  two   SMEs  in  India  are  still reluc-  to face  tough  times  during
          weeks in advance and for all its   tant to embrace  automation.  COVID-19  lockdowns. Sharing
          raw materials to come on time.   Rajamane  tells  us  how far the  some  of them,  Rajamane  says,
          “Many  of our customers  are  company has  come  in  leverag-  “The industry had never expe-
          also on  Kanban,  which  helps  ing it for its growth, “SMEs are   rienced  a  COVID-like  situation
                                                                                                    The com-
          us manufacture products as per   reluctant as  the  cost of auto-  before. Hence,  we  were  un-  pany has a
          the  batch  quantity required.  mation needs to do justice with   prepared and had to face chal-  planning
          Our foundry and    machines   the  volume  produced. We,  at  lenges, including managing our   system that
          work  in  tandem  with  the  as-  Rajamane,  have  gone  with  the  people  and  finance. The  issue  helps it
                                                                                                    plan to
          sembly line. The  material is  low-cost automation  required  of our people  took  some  time
                                                                                                    manufacture
          shifted as per the requirements   for the  scale  at which  we  pro-  to stabilize, and we, as an orga-  products two
                                                                      nization, had to keep inventing   weeks in
                                                                      newer methods  to get people  advance and
                                                                      back to work.”                for all its
                                                                                                    raw materi-
                                                                      “The  Government is  giving us
                                                                                                    als to come
                                                                      the  opportunity to bring back  on time.
                                                                      our focus  and  growth. Many
                                                                      of the  schemes  will take  time
                                                                      to be  implemented. The  indus-
                                                                      try needs  to focus  on  moving
                                                                      in  that direction,  which  will
                                                                               to think
                                                                      require  us for the  opportunities
                                                                                       differently
                                                                          look
                                                                      and
                                                                    Source: Rajamane Industries Pvt Ltd  “Collaboration  and  co-working
                                                                      that lie ahead of us,” he adds.
                                                                                crucial part in
                                                                                             this
                                                                      will play a
                                                                                   will need
                                                                      journey as
                                                                                             rap-
                                                                                we
                                                                                          and
                                                                                             the
                                                                      id
                                                                        changes
                                                                                to happen,
                                                                      gle-handedly,” he concludes.
          Shop floor of Dobbspet Facility                             same cannot be brought in sin-
          Disclaimer: The quality of images is hampered due to limitation in procuring high resolution images.
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