TVS supports Covid-19 fight

TVS Motor Company, its group holding company Sundaram Clayton and other associate companies have together pledged Rs.40 crore to support India’s fight against Covid-19. They will together provide lifesaving supplies such as oxygen concentrators, PPE Kits, medicines and medical equipment across the country under Sundaram

Clayton’s social arm, the Srinivasan Services Trust (SST). As part of the initiative, the company will supply 2,000 oxygen concentrators to hospitals and health centres and over 20,000 food packets per day for essential services workers in Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Himachal Pradesh during the second wave of COVID-19. This will be supported by the distribution of over a million face masks, thousands of oximeters and PPE kits, hand sanitisers and essential medicines to more than 500 government health centres and hospitals in these states. Additionally, the company will continue to facilitate all possible assistance to COVID-19 care centres in rural areas across the country.

Daimler India Commercial Vehicles (DICV) has announced a ‘Daimler India School of Quality’ initiative to up skill its employees and present them with a robust quality mindset. Aligned with the company’s strategic objective of providing world-class products and services, the intiative is designed to enhancecore competencies of employees across all levels, and to reinforce quality as a way of life at DICV. With a tailor-made, certified curriculum offered completely free-of-charge to all employees, DICV, through the initiative, which consists of three levels, is keen to develop a futureready employee mindset. The first batch of students comprising around 3000 DICV employees will undertake the foundation level over the next 12 months, with the secondary and university levels continuing beyond April 2022. Looking at options to offer the initiative externally as paid training programme in the long term, the school of quality, at the foundation level covers ‘Basic Quality Tools & Methods’. At the secondary level, it covers ‘Advanced Quality Tools with Six Sigma Approach’. At the University level, it focuses on postgraduate and research programs. In other news, Parthasarathy Thota, who served as the CFO of DICV before moving to MFTBC Japan in 2016, has been appointed as its procurement head of Daimler Trucks Asia.

Jidoka Technologies has announced the introduction of a new solution to address the growing challenges in the QC processes of the manufacturing sector. The solution is automated and cognitive. It harnesses and mirrors human reasoning in defect detection delivering 98 per cent or higher accuracy in the QC process consistently and a significant increase in throughput, besides reducing wastage by 30 per cent. Leveraging deep tech for both Indian and international markets, the solution enables automation of the process of visual quality checks at high speed with the use of new emerging technologies like AI, ML and Analytics in a rapidly digitizing shop floor space. Having received seed funding from a leading technology entrepreneur, Jidoka Technologies will utilise it to scale up operations and to expand into new markets of North America and South East Asia. Aiming at pharma, general manufacturing, electronics and printing among other industry verticals, the company was founded in 2018 to deliver cutting-edge engineering solutions in the area of manufacturing SaaS.