Category Archives: manufacturing

Chinese Toys- Lessons from Mattel Story

Posted on September 28, 2007 by indra

Many years ago, I had read a story in Readers Digest about the quality of a Japanese doll that was getting inspected. The inspector rejected it as the doll had some sharp feature that could hurt the child using it. … Continue reading →

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Tata’s Rs 1 lakh Car: Evolution and Impact

Posted on September 20, 2007 by indra

It was a summer of 1959. Five mechanical engineering students from IIT, Kharagpur were on vocational training in TELCO, Jamshedpur. TELCO was its abbreviated name and that is today Tata Motors. I was one of the five. Even at that … Continue reading →

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Defence Can Boost Manufacturing Sector

Posted on September 13, 2007 by indra

India can get rid of its poverty only if it becomes a major manufacturing power. It will have to manufacture everything that the domestic as well as global consumers demand today and will demand tomorrow. If India is not in … Continue reading →

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Booming and Bubbling India- XVII

Posted on September 10, 2007 by indra

I have gone through a wonderful story in Fortune, ‘On the Road: Why India can win on some points against China’: M.V. Kotwal, a director of Larsen & Toubro (L&T), India’s largest and most international heavy engineering group, said that … Continue reading →

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New Zealand Objection to Chinese Textiles vs. Ayurvedic Burqas in S Arabia

Posted on September 8, 2007 by indra

The Chinese manufacturing miracle is showing its real face. It is clear from many recalls such as those of toxic toys in millions. I wrote about this earlier. In many cases, it is only due to very poor business ethics. … Continue reading →

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China Quality Story

Posted on August 28, 2007 by indra

China quality story is very much in news these days. Today morning when I was talking with Anand I was trying to caution him for not giving any of those poisonous Chinese toys to Emma, our sweet little grand daughter. … Continue reading →

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Automobile Manufacturing

Posted on August 10, 2007 by indra

As an engineering professional who worked in an Automobile Industry for more than thirty years of my life, I used to write a lot on technical areas that were of interest to me. Many of my articles were published in … Continue reading →

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Innovation -The Only Winning Way for Manufacturing Sector

Posted on July 5, 2007 by indra

I am quoting below (in Box) a story by Matthew May, a former senior advisor to Toyota University, the author of The Elegant Solution: Toyota’s Formula for Mastering Innovation, and the director of the innovation firm Aevitas. It appears in … Continue reading →

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Shipbuilding- A sector with huge employment potential

Posted on April 12, 2007 by indra

Even in 1950s when India established its first IIT at Kharagpur, it happened to have a department of naval architecture, though with an intake of a dozen or two students. I used to wonder where we they be usefully employed. … Continue reading →

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Frugal Manufacturing- Is it a Chinese Nomenclature?

Posted on April 10, 2007 by indra

I came to know of the term ‘frugal manufacturing’ after the news reporters wrote about the interview of Carlos Ghosn, the legendary boss of Renault Motors, France. He talked so highly about the frugal manufacturing that has been mastered by … Continue reading →

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