India Glycols Steps Up With Innovative Digital Technologies

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Atul Govil

The current era is buzzing with the digitalization and organizations around the world are adopting innovative technologies and practices. Atul Govil, Chief Transformation Officer & Head (SAP & IT) - Corporate at India Glycols reveals to Pro MFG Media, the innovative technologies and practices adopted by their organization and the significance of customized solutions.

The current era encourages innovations and technologies and since it is called the age of digital, organizations are taking various steps to ensure a better future. The primary focus and engagement of India Glycols are to drive operating technologies which will enable operational excellence. They have implemented IoT technologies three years ago in one of the manufacturing sites and the key essence of utilizing this technology was to initially create a manual spotlight on all the key areas of the value stream and identify the areas which weren’t performing efficiently. The organization implemented IoT technologies in the areas that weren’t performing efficiently which helped the organization immensely.

Apart from that through a technology standpoint, considering the current situation, the company has used a lot of the collaboration tools and utilized Robotic Process Automation (RPA) tools to automate the repetitive manual process. The team has also commenced working on Python for driving the analytics, it’s not just having the data available within the ecosystem but also leveraging the data which is available outside the ecosystem. These are the broad contours of the technologies which have been implemented at India Glycols currently.

Even in the widespread era of digitalization, the company have comprehended the basics of digital and along with the assistance of large consulting setup, undertook a holistic process overview to understand the status of every process. The whole overview revealed them the relevant process, broken ones and even less efficient process. This approach provided an opportunity to figure out the process which can be automated or removed.

In fact, the entire procedure provided a view which probably no one had documented. The company documented every process which can be important for sales & operational planning or support supply chain management or even logistics planning. The overall transactions were documented to the last detail. In the due course, the company also checked out the best practices followed by the other leading companies and thus evaluating which one could work in the company’s favor. The organization prioritized and implemented the ones that would provide the highest benefits.

For example, with respect to the get-in & get - out process for logistics, the company comprehended, that by using RF-ID, they could monitor the entire workflow, right from the entry point to the loading point in the loading area. The organization could also enable all the material handling complaints and have a complete view of the assets which are used in the logistic turnaround cycle, eventually helping to decide on whether the turnaround time is high or low. Recently the company has also commissioned a complete smart warehouse using a comprehensive digitized solution.

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