Yi (Hyderabad Chapter) Global Excellence Learning Mission to

Suzlon, Cybage, ElectroMech, Tata Motors & Thermax 21-22 Nov 2013: Pune

Yi Hyderabad organized a Global Excellence Learning mission to Suzlon, Cybage, ElectroMech, Tata

Motors & Thermax on 21-22 Nov 2013 at Pune.

The objective of this Mission was to provide a learning platform to Yi members and help them to

understand the best Practices adopted by these companies and how these companies have successfully

managed to evolve business excellence models in their respective sectors.

The charged up team headed for the exciting day with lots of fun & bonding.

A warm welcome was waiting at Suzlon

Energy Limited, is an Indian

multinational wind power company based

in Pune. Mr. Miresh Seth, Asst. General

Manager - Program Management at Suzlon

with Mr Nitin A Gurav, Executive, Global

Learning & Development cordially welcomed

the Yi members and introduced them to the

environment friendly Suzlon campus.

Mr Nitin took Yi members for a guided tour

to Suzlon and explained that Suzlon is using

Natural daylight and sunlight harvesting

mechanism. Entire campus has glass

layering. Below parking they constructed

underground water harvesting plant and

every drop of water from washroom, cafeteria etc is used is reused he said.

He also briefed Yi members that wind and solar hybrids are installed in the campus and email servers are

made on green power. Giant Glass cylinders are installed for ventilation and natural light. Ms Dharini

Gupta, Brand Manager interacted with Yi members and explained about the investment opportunities in

turbines and explained about IPP model.

Suzlon visit was very interesting in terms the scale, innovation as well the vision of the company,

adherence and execution of ancient Indian aspects of structural sciences as well as architecture was the

additional plus point.

The mission then visited Cybage Software Ltd - a

global information technology provider of outsourced

software product development and application

development and maintenance. Mr Arun Nathani, CEO &

Managing Director & Ms. Ritu Nathani, Director of Cybage

welcomed Yi members to Cybage campus.

Mr. Arun in his presentation depicted about the Wonder years of Cybage and interacted with Yi members

on leadership and his journey to success. The take-aways for Yi members was the inspirational

interaction with Arun Nathani who really spoke from his heart and took all the members along in his

journey through Life, Career and Cybage. His stress on Data analytics, Being humble, Re-innovation and

the thrust on Value Proposition was very educative.

A warm welcome was waiting for Yi members at

ElectroMech, the largest EOT cranes manufacturer in

India. It offers precise solutions for wide-ranging

applications in manufacturing plants and infrastructure

projects through a complete range of Hoists and Cranes.

Upon the arrival, Mr. AVR Murty, CEO, ElectroMech Yi

members for a walk through the facility explaining multi

level storage area, Loading and painting area of cranes.

During his interaction he said that they are Exclusive

partner for ABUS in India and a most innovative company

which doesn’t encourage manual handling to avoid

accidents.

The Interaction with the Mr. Tushar Mehendale,

Managing Director of ElectroMech was another highpoint ,

where his

emphasis was on

teamwork and in case of partnership, he recommended that

the partner has to have his skin in the business as in risk

capital.

He shared his personal vision to have a professional

organisation and told members to get out of the mind block

that there is no one better apart from them in the market.

Growth is possible only with the help of team work,

Continuous process of learning, he added. Mr Tushar focused

on the new design to come up with new sleeker model in

cranes which will be more efficient

The day one of the visit ended with the blast at Olive where Yi Hyderabad & Pune members had a fun

social evening.

The day two started with the morning Maharastrian breakfast &

sheer bonding with Yi Pune members which was the best and

the most enjoyable part.

The plant visit to Tata Motors, largest manufacturer in Indian

automotive industry and leader in commercial vehicles, and

among the top in passenger vehicles was also a great learning

experience. The mission started with the corporate presentation by Mr. Ram Hudlikar – Asst. Manager,

Administration.

The stress on what is right for the country is right for the business and giving value to a human being as a

employee and that gets returned was an eye opener for all the Yi members. The presentation given by top

managements depicted that it is a major automobile

manufacturer of utility vehicles, passenger cars, pickups and

commercial vehicles.

Mr. Shrirang Dhavale - Div. Manager, CSR – HR, Tata Motors

briefed members about various TATA products, and that the

66% of products are manufactured by the proprietor. CSR is

what they feel like doing and giving back to the society. It's

should not be mandatory.

Other members from different department of Tata Motors

who interaction with Yi Members are Mr. S. M. Joshi – Asst.

Gen. Manager, Auto Projects, Mr. V. V. Joshi - Asst. Gen.

Manager, Construction & Environment, Mr. S. D. Kale - Asst.

Gen. Manager, Construction, Mr. Shripad Kulkarni – Div. Manager, Vehicle Service, Mr. Sushilkumar Rane

– Sr. Manager, CSR – HR,

During the plant visit members got to see the silver ghost vintage, Outdoor testing tracks, Production

engg dept, Transmission division, Chassis line, Press shop, Auto staming line- Robots, Car engine

manufacturing unit , Trim line, Safari trim line.

The mission ended with the visit to Thermax D Ltd. an Indian energy and environment engineering

company based in India and Britain. It manufactures boilers, vapour absorption machines, offers water

and waste solutions and installs captive power projects.

Mr Adwait Kamat, Plant Incharge at Thermax during his

interaction mentioned that Themax’s core competency is Energy &

Environment. He also took a guided tour to the facility to show

members the Welding & plasma fitting, Grinding activities, Shop

floor - manufacture parts of boilers, Assembly of boilers, Types of

boilers, range of boilers. Members also got to see how the Flat

plate is converting into cylindrical shape.

The mission was appreciated by one and all.

20 Yi Members participated in this 02 day mission.

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