BLAZING A TRAIL FOR THE INDUSTRY

KEENLY CONTESTED CASE-STUDY COMPETITION ESTABLISHES 'REINVENTING THE FUTURE 2022' AS A PREMIER PLATFORM FOR SHOW CASING INNOVATIVE IDEAS IMPLEMENTED IN MANUFACTURING CENTRES ACROSS INDIA.

- MAT KHAN

THIS COMPETITION IS GETTING IMMENSELY POPULAR.

The annual case-study competition, Reinventing the Future 2022, presented by Aditya Birla Group and organised by Manufacturing Today, continued to draw enormous responses going into its 7th edition.

The regional rounds held in the centres of industrial hubs across India at Chennai, Indore, Rudrapur and Vadodara brought people and companies brimming with innovative ideas, implementing them on their shop floors and willing to share on to the knowledge-sharing platform.

"It was wonderful being there at the event. It was a day full of learning and insights. Got to learn many new concepts and identified opportunities for horizontal deployment," said one of the contestants, Parikshat Wadhera, Chief Manager, TQM at SRF Limited from Indore.

All the venues saw leading manufacturing companies filing in early at the venue. They were signing in for new insights, sharing knowledge, presenting new ideas, bringing new perspectives and blazing new trails while eager students from premier institutes were finding an opportunity to showcase their inventions.

Over 80 corporates, ten engineering institutes, and 500+ professionals vigorously competed with innovative ideas across six categories: Safety, Sustainability. Technology, Quality Development, People Empowerment and Cost Optimization. They were adjudicated on aspects of impact, innovation, complexity, scope and presentation quality by the jury panels comprising eminent personalities from the industry and academia.

Popular names in the manufacturing industry shared their innovative ideas - Hyundai, TAFE, JK Tyre, TVS, Dalmia Cement, FLSmidth, KCPL Cement, Royal Enfield, and Saint Gobain participated at Chennai. At the same time, Indore saw SRF, Bridgestone, Cummins, Sun Pharma, VECV, BALCO, CNH Industrial, Bajaj Auto and Nestle among the renowned in the contest.