SMEs to make quality their USP for domestic, global market: Secy MSME

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Saurabh Gupta | 25 Nov, 2015
In continuation to the recently announced 3 percent interest subsidy scheme for exporters by the Government, Dr. Anup K Pujari, Secretary, Ministry of MSME, beckoned the industry to strive for quality on a continual basis at the inaugural of the 8th National Cluster Summit, New Delhi.

"Indian SMEs to make Quality their USP (unique selling point) for Indian and Global market . A wave of technologies and ideas can create a revolution and surely turn the wheel for manufacturing in India," said Pujari.

The theme of the 8th National Cluster Summit - 'Build SME Competitiveness: Invest in Clusters' has its genesis partly in Hon'ble Prime Minister's clarion call of Make in India including that of Zero Defect and Zero Effect and the fact that Clusters have been testified as important means of growth and transformation.

It has been seen that Clusters are important drivers of competitiveness and innovation. Innovation is better triggered in dynamic environments where similar organisations come together, interact in a constructive and a complementary manner to generate newer and smarter ways of doing things.

A brief look at the existing state of manufacturing sector in India reveals that although going steady, the sector has not moved much and that there is enormous untapped potential. Under the most recent initiative for the competence building of the Indian industry, the 'Make in India' campaign, the country is coming up as one of the most attractive destinations in the world to set up manufacturing.

The focus of the Government is to implement schemes that will bring down the production cost and yet increase the competitiveness of the MSME sector.

India should not expend energy in country to country comparison but focus on improving our market share by understanding what is it that others are doing better than us and how can we incorporate it in our system to improve our world quality ranking.

Emmanuel Marquis, Managing Director, Aerospace Business Line TRIGO, France revealed the secrets to go global to the Indian suppliers especially in the aerospace sector. The mantra is to build a people-centric organization. It is people who break a sequence in a quality adherence procedure that lead to failure. Machines do not." Motivated people are reliable and traceable who will ensure that there are no failures.

Dr. Pujari congratulated Confederation of Indian Industry for its continued and sustained efforts for synergizing energies and talents of individual units to thereby boost their productivity and efficiency.

Awards for excellence in categories like Productivity, Quality, 'Energy and Cost', Total Employee Involvement, Green Manufacturing and Productivity, Quality, Cost, Delivery, '5S, Safety and Morale', Environment were won by the Indian industry both in Large and MSME sector during the concluding ceremony of the 8th National Cluster Summit.

The National Cluster Summit aims at creating a multi stakeholder platform to promote discussions by leaders from government, industry, NGOs, academia, R&D organisations and consulting firms. Through the years, the event has played a central role to facilitate networking amongst the industry and its eco-system.

Since the years, the event has grown to an image of a pilgrimage for the Indian Industry for which organizations from across the nation and also from abroad amalgamate at an arena where issues pertinent to the growth of the industry are discussed. Industry in abundance also comes together to not only compete for the prestigious CII awards but also witness the live presentation of the best case studies and the Kaizen Gallery.