Yaskawa India Robotics organised virtual learning session for manufacturers

June 16, 2020 3:03 pm

This year, the COVID-19 pandemic challenged every business and individual’s persistence in the shortest time duration. The period when the whole world was at a halt and businesses were looking with the hope of survival keeping their workers motivated and encouraged, Yaskawa India revamped its way of doing things to support its clientele, ensuring that the trust they have shown in Yaskawa’s team over the years becomes stronger.

During the three-month-long lockdown since mid-March as the coronavirus pandemic made physical events impossible, Yaskawa India stood strong and took a slightly different approach by initiating one-of-its-kind programme of virtual E-seminar and webinars, connecting with its customers and partners to help them improve their industrial and manufacturing businesses vis-à-vis automotive, nonautomotive, tier I and II, FMCG, MSMEs, etc.

On 25th May 2020, e-Seminar [Gujarat Chapter] was organised by Yaskawa India Robotics division wherein for the first time on an open virtual common platform, industry colleagues were invited via different channels with an agenda to enable them to learn virtually about robotic automation and how Yaskawa Arc welding technologies can help their businesses to streamline their productivity, add value in manufacturing lines, save on production cost and deliver the quality and speedy output in this new normal, followed by a question-answer session.

“The programme acted as an open platform for businesses to experience serendipitous bonding with Yaskawa India team. Moreover, the benefit with such initiatives has a lot going for businesses as virtually doing events like these are more accessible, save attendees’ time as they don’t have to travel, is more flexible and in some ways good for environment too,” cited Ajay Gurjar, COO – Robotics Division, Yaskawa India Private Limited.

Ajay Gurjar added, “At crucial times also, Yaskawa India team proved to stand with its customers with 24/7 support, e-Seminar [Gujarat Chapter] and various webinars which transformed the learning capabilities of manufacturing and automation during the lockdown period. Over 90 trainings pan India were conducted with more than 2,800 attendees from over 300 automotive and non-automotive companies. Topics covered were namely Post lockdown – Digital Solutions Guide on Robot Maintenance, Basic Operations and Maintenance of Arc Welding, Handling, Spot Welding, Painting Applications, Motosim Introduction and Basic Operations.”

“In past times, Yaskawa organised customer seminars with physical presence house full of hundreds of people reacting to it. When you get to watch people’s reaction—the laughs, the claps, the gasps—it’s unlike anything else in events like these. People know what to expect from physical events, while online events are still a relatively new concept to some,” spoke Arshleen Ahluwalia, AM – Marketing Communications, Yaskawa India Pvt. Ltd. and moderator of e-Seminar [Gujarat Chapter].

“At Yaskawa India, we always keep on experimenting with new ideas to deliver our best and stand strong to meet customer’s expectations. Whether events are virtual or physical, if you put the great work out there, you will find the right audience,” shared Arshleen Ahluwalia.

“While considering the need to run companies with minimum manpower and adherence to social distancing, Yaskawa India sees robotics as the solution for future manufacturing and value supply chain delivering the best-in-class robotics automation and AI with Industry 4.0 as smart factory notion increasing the work-from-home feasibility. To do so, we shall keep ourselves up to hold such events again and again benefitting customers and economy with industrial growth,” said Mayank Jain, Regional Manager – Gujarat and presenter at e-Seminar [Gujarat Chapter].

Team Yaskawa India strongly believes, “Do It Right and how we can bring value 365 days of the year.” As the situation will take time in getting real normal, the industry shall start production to grow and enable economy expands beyond; Yaskawa stands as a backbone to rectify manufacturing problems and would like to congratulate everyone for doing exciting things at their companies and urge to upkeep health for both machinery and self.