Manufacturing Excellence Study Mission 2017.

The mission was to provide a unique chance for talented personnel to understand various manufacturing practices and capabilities across sectors.

The invitation for participation was open to SMEs and companies involved with manufacturing engineering and interested in understanding the advanced manufacturing and quality processes.

Satven team was represented by Selvan Veerappan, R. Venkataraman and CV Lakshmi Narayana, who had the opportunity to walk through the Ashok Leyland, Saint Gobain and Daimler Truck plants and interact with the plant engineering teams at those companies. Detailed presentations were made by the companies to the study team and our enthusiastic associates gained process knowledge and the complexity involved in stringent process requirements to maintain the product quality.

Satven had participated in the 3rd edition of ‘Conference on Automotive Design & Styling’ organized by CII on 13th October 2017, at Hotel ITC Grand Chola, Chennai. The theme for the conference was “Design & Styling in India – Emerging Market”.

Delivery Head – Design, Mr. Mohan Desu, spoke during a plenary session on ‘Design & Styling Paradigm – India’s Roadmap 2030’ covering topics such as paradigm shift in Design & Styling of cars due to onslaught of new technology like Electric Vehicles, Connected Cars, Autonomous Cars, Changes in car ownership and 3D Printing. This talk was well received by the large gathering of industry experts.

Satven set up a stall at this conference and the stall was visited by several seniors from the industry.

The event focused on convergence of disruptive technologies like Big Data, IoT, Industry 4.0 and how they support the ER&D sector to transform themselves and fully capture the benefits of the new digitized world.

Satven had set up a stall to showcase the engineering capabilities to the automotive world. Several delegates had visited the Satven stall and enquired about the offerings and were pleasantly impressed with the rapid progress Satven had made in the recent years.

The summit was a great place to connect with professionals of various industry verticals from around the globe and surely a potboiler for cross pollination of cutting edge technologies and ideas for engineering a better future.

On day one, more than 40 project leaders and project managers of Satven went through a session on leadership skills held at ISB. The session focused on nuances of working in emerging leadership roles – today’s times demand that budding leaders understand personal styles of leadership. Skills such as influencing individuals and cross team collaboration were discussed.

On the second day, more than 50 members of the leadership team including BDMs, attended an exhilarating session which focused on negotiation skills. A conceptual framework of negotiation in a two-party, multi-issue situation was taught. The Satven participants also learnt concepts such as power of alternatives, power of intelligence, and lateral influence. The speakers gave away pointers on how to create value before claiming value.

The event focused on building high-performance teams by harnessing collective talents. This programme also included sessions offsite and adventure sports. During team-building activities there was a lot of camaraderie and creativity on display.

3 Box Solution: A strategy for leading innovation

A 3-day workshop on our 3-Box model was held on March 5-7, 2017 in Dream Valley Resorts for our functional heads, business development managers, project managers, and a few other key associates. This is the third session in the series of workshops to make our organization future-ready.

In it, many business cases of how innovation can happen in an organization in a changing landscape were discussed.

The associates, like true artisans, were so immersed in the activity that they didn’t even keep track of time.

Later the rangoli creations were judged by the BDMs and the prizes were given to the winning teams.

The relay race saw a bunch of enthusiastic participants from Satven Japan as well. The participants ran on a 16.3km-route.

The event was held in 1966 for the first time with an intent to communicate with and understand the needs of local communities. Over the years, it also has helped to improve camaraderie between colleagues.

The associates learnt the Dos and Don’ts of dealing with clients from the ‘Land of the Rising Sun’.