National Statistical Day Celebrated
Indian manufacturing product continues to suffer from internal rejections in order to avoid customer complaint. This is one of the major observations made at the National Statistical Day celebrated on Sunday at the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI) here by a group of executives who took part. According to an ISI release, the celebrations were in connection with the 115th birth anniversary of Prof. P.C. Mahalanobis, father of Statistics education in the country. The participants included executives from broad range of industries like health, infrastructure, KPOs, BPOs, instrument system, education and Information Technology.
The meeting noted that most of the studies revealed that the general perception of quality was restricted to product. “It was presumed that quality was not a problem but Indian manufacturing product continues to suffer from internal rejections in order to avoid customer complaints”. It also pointed out that the rejections were in the units of percentage instead of part per million (PPM) escalating the cost of production and contributing to inflationary pressures on pricing. The meeting deliberated on this issue and suggested long-term solutions using statistical tools and techniques through modern software.
Besides, it was observed that the temperature control was the baseline of product defects in die casting, processing, dyeing and many other processing industries, including blood banks.All these executives had been trained on variance analysis, reducing rejection, eliminating waste, ensuring time delivery and achieving zero defects using Six Sigma methodologies. Risk analysis of donors and receivers in blood banks, defects in domestic appliances, incidents of pin holes in condoms, delayed deliveries and cost escalation in infrastructure were demonstrated as live case studies in order to predict and prevent rejections.
After 17-days of intensive training, successful ones were awarded Green Belt and Black Belt in recognition of their contributions.A. Rajagopal, head of the ISI, Coimbatore, explained learning methodologies of Six Sigma and implementing the same effectively in Indian corporates. Special addresses were given Dr. G. Bakthavatsalam, Chairman, KG Group of institutions, Praksh Viswanathan of Infosys, Murali Kumar, Chief of Quality, Honeywell, and P.L.Narasimhan,chief of R&D,Lakshmi Machine Works.
