Meet the press

Meet the press. We started our day with a group of reporters from New Delhi. Ramish, the director of SDM-IMD and has done a lot of work to promote our visit and the school so we were on the hot seat. This visit was for us to ask the media any questions we had on India, but instead there were more questions for us on what we though of the country.

The morning lecture was on HR & Business – a symbolic relationship. Not that interesting.

Based on my work experience I had a great time at our visit to TVS motors. TVS is a manufacturer of 3000 motor scooters and motor cycles per day and even more interesting they had 72 inventory turns on their raw material, (35 on finished goods). During their presentation they talked the language of lean and 6 sigma, TQM and TPM, I knew I was in for a fabulous tour. When we walked on to the shop floor it was what I expected to see in a world class manufacturing facility. There were metrics boards, clean and orderly manufacturing cells, process flow and a work force that looked that they were busy at all times, no one standing around chatting. This was even more impressive as they pay their average shop employee $200 us a month of 9000 rp. They also had a mix of 40% company employees and 60% temporary employees, which they say is a low ratio, as they want 60%/40% Company vs. temp employees. Need less to say, I had a great time and felt at home in a factory.