Hughes, Maruti partnership creates robust training programme
Maruti Suzuki, India’s leading automobile manufacturer has partnered with Hughes Networks in India to create a digital training academy at the Maruti plant in Gurgaon. This has today evolved and expanded into a robust training infrastructure with over 100 classroom sites that spans the entire workforce ecosystem - from employees to partners. Supported by satellite broadband enabled connectivity and incorporating an interactive training module, the Maruti Digital Training Academy is a successful example of how Maruti is helping meet the need for appropriate training for employees and partners to help them better prepared for the future. Mukesh Gupta, vice president, Training Academy, Maruti Suzuki and Shivaji Chatterjee, senior vice president, Enterprise, Hughes Communications India Ltd speak about this partnership and what it means for the industry. Edited excerpts: levels, has always been a key to successful growth of any organization. With strong business growth, Maruti needed to have skilled manpower in all aspects of Maruti’s growing business. Following the innovative approach, Maruti was looking to invest in technology based solution which is stable, proven, and scalable and Hughes high-end enterprise connectivity solutions were found suitable to meet the critical connectivity requirements. To provide “live” training across their distribution chain including company factories and offices, as well as key dealer outlets, Maruti Suzuki Training Academy was inaugurated in December 2012. Apart from capability building interventions, the training academy also serves to encourage employees to be health consciousness and spread awareness around road safety. inculcate Suzuki’s best practices at all our locations.
The Maruti Suzuki digital training academy is based on interactive delivery platform supported through a high-powered Ku- band satellite network by Hughes Communications. The learning eco-system is being transformed and endowed with e-learning modules and web based trainings to cater to employees across locations through an interactive web studio at Maruti Suzuki Training Academy. The highend interactive platform allows Maruti’s trainers to have high quality, interactive, real-time and two-way engagement with dispersed participants across the most remote locations individually or simultaneously. In
Chatterjee:
partnership with Hughes, the training facilities and module are designed not only to benefit the employees at Maruti but also the entire value chain including dealers, community and educational institutions (ITI’S). In 2017 itself, the training programme reached out more than 74000 people with different learning requirements.
Gupta:
With the installed technology we have reduced the cost and as well our response time for various functions has also come down tremendously. We are using this fast moving and flexible technology for upgrading the capability of our resources
Hughes has a long standing partnership with Maruti that goes back to 2012. From a single classroom facility, the infrastructure has grown today that supports more than 30 office locations, and support for more than 150 ITI’S. One of the key highlights being that Maruti Suzuki sponsored ITIS have compared significantly better to other ITI’S on both fronts i ncluding – student engagement and learning.
Chatterjee: