Leading Manufacturing Companies – JK Tyres & Industries

Excellence in manufacturing can never be defined unless its linkage with R&D and supply chain is well oiled, while maintaining quality and process control management. In any manufacturing, more so with multi-locational plant situations, new product/process development plays an important role and needs to be handled with well-defined systems. In today’s scenario, where customer needs are changing faster than speed of human thought, the continuous participation of R&D in operations is significant. This is especially true in tyre plants where OEM demands require even R&D teams to go back to the drawing board for every new model being launched at speeds faster than ever before. Industry 4.0, digitisation and many more acronyms have been discussed at several forums. There is no doubt that digitisation will generate far more data and lead to better analysis and decision-making at the shop floor. The big question is how much digitisation and at what cost? There is a strong need to develop low cost digital solutions and a large need of trained resources to cut through this black box of technology.
Today’s manufacturing environment sees a crucial role for supply chain. With geographies as large as ours, ensuring right product availability at right price is a challenge. The industry has been making progress from monthly sales forecast for regional distribution to daily replenishment. These changes with IT support have come a long way and have reduced sales losses. This aspect of excellence is at the verge of further explosion with the biggest ever reform i.e. GST.