The Hindu : `Industries should use student skill to enhance product quality'

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Sunday, Jan 25, 2004

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`Industries should use student skill to enhance product quality'

By Our Staff Reporter

VELLORE, JAN. 24. Industries and technical institutions should not only interact with each other but also become partners and sail together to achieve industrial development in the country, according to G. Viswanathan, Chancellor, Vellore Institute of Technology.

Students of technical and other educational institutions could be utilised by industries to meet their management and technical needs such as cost reduction, minimisation of power consumption and reduction of engine noise, all of which ultimately led to enhancement of productivity. At a time when Indian industries were required to compete with foreign products in the globalised scenario, the industries would do well to utilise the knowledge and skill of students to enhance the quality of their products, improve productivity, and in the process, provide on-the-job training to students, Mr.Viswanathan said, presiding over the `Industry Institute Interface' organised by VIT here on Saturday.

K. Vivekanandan, General Manager, District Industries Centre, said information technology tools were utilised by most industries only for the purpose of typing letters. They could be used for preparation of pay rolls and inventory management, for which the services of students could be utilised, he said.

K. Firdose Ahmed, Manager, M/S.Shafeeq Shameel, Ambur, said students could study the cause of sickness in industries and suggest solutions to their problems, to help in the rehabilitation of the sick units. The technical institutions could play an important role in the transfer of technology from the institute to the industry, which was lacking at present. The IT students could also help the leather industry in the production of software suited to the industry.

S. Narayanan, Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, VIT, said with industrial training having been made mandatory in VIT, the students were prepared to work for six weeks in the industries even without any stipend. The students were prepared to help the industry in solving their problems, he said. V.B. Venkatesan of Vasan Match Splints, Gudiyatham, spoke. K.G. Sudhakar, Dean, Centre for Industry Institute Interaction, gave a presentation on the CIII, while A. Balachandran, manager, Technology Business Incubator, made a presentation on TBI.

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