Islamabad, (Parliament Times) : Mr. Muhammad Alamgir Chaudhry CEO, National Productivity Organization (NPO) shared the journey, achievement & outcomes of the Project. He congratulates NPO Team and Managing Director, Punjab Small Industrial Corporation (PSIC) for their great initiatives for Industry in recent crucial situation of economy. CEO, NPO express that Pakistan is very far behind in Productivity and labor Productivity ranking unfortunately. In the early period Pakistan is 100% ahead in Labor Productivity from their neighbor countries. He focused that this kind of Project must be carryout further.
National Productivity Organization (NPO) arranged dissemination conference on completion of ‘Implementation of Productivity Improvement: Competitive Reinforcement Initiative (CRI)’ Project and discuss the ways and means for enhancing industrial productivity in the country, at a local hotel, Lahore.
CEO mentioned that these projects were being proved helpful in improving productivity of various industries, adding that NPO was also supporting and guiding the industrialists to ensure up to the mark production that would not only help increase country’s export base but also overcome the prevailing trade deficit.
The CEO said that Pakistan was among top ten countries of the world with regard to milk and wheat production, while its coal, mineral and other mega resources were yet to be exploited up to their potential. He mentioned that Pakistan now lagged behind even those countries including Malaysia, South Korea, India and Bangladesh, which had been equal or behind Pakistan on economic front in 1960s, adding that it was an eye-opener for and there was a dire need to study and adopt their economic growth strategies. “We have to remove our technological inefficiencies in the industrial sector to compete in the global market,” he suggested.
Iftikhar Ahmed Chairman, Pakistan Association of Automotive Parts and Accessories Manufacturers (PAPAM) said thanks to all Government officials for conducting such great project of productivity improvement. He expressed that it is a remarkable achievement and all participating companies in this project got improvement against all Key Performance Indicators of the Project including productivity, per day production, lead time, rejection rate, quality defects rate and time motion study. He mentioned that such projects of PSIC are very helpful for our sector of auto parts manufactures industries including efficiency enhancement, energy conservation project and providing a very positive results, if we do on continuity basis it will be very helpful for our economic growth of the country as well. He also shares the views of different companies participating in the project.
Mubashir Naseer But Chairman, Pakistan Readymade Garments Manufacturers and Exporters Association (PRGMEA) said thanks to initiator and all stake holders participating in this project. He expressed that they have already worked with NPO and now had got good opportunity during this crunch period for increasing productivity in industries. He also mentioned that there is a need to collect more data in readymade garments cluster industries to make other productivity enhancement project by NPO including energy conservation at top priority as 40% of energy losses are there in industries.
Secretary General Col. (Retd.) Ahmad Fawad Farooq, Pakistan Footwear Manufacturers Association (PFMA) expressed that identified project KPI’s got very positive enhancement results in the participating companies through application of different latest productivity tools and techniques by NPO Team. He paid thanks to all Stakeholders including CDI and NPO for completing such project in very short period.
In his address, Punjab Small Industries Corporation (PSIC) Managing Director Muhammad Asim Javed said that long pending plans for promotion of the industry could be implemented due to joint initiatives of the NPO and the PSIC. Though Pakistan was among top countries in milk, wheat and other commodities and industrial products, its growth in these sectors was still slow for which ‘we have to identify the loopholes and gaps in this regard and then take speedy and appropriate measures to remove those shortcomings.’
Asim Javed stressed the need for promoting and adopting modern technology and energy-efficient machines, besides enhancing the labor’s capacity and skills, adding that these steps would definitely reduce the industrial input cost thus making Pakistani exportable mercantile competitive in the international market. He asserted that Pakistan could also improve and enhance its productivity by implementing research works, modern technological interventions and introducing innovations. “We should also give impetus to our exports and economy by studying the strategies and work areas of the successful countries and implementing those in respective industrial sectors,” he maintained.
He mentioned, “Pakistan has great potential in the human resource and by equipping the HR with full and semi skills, we can not only fulfill the demand for local laborer’s but also send the surplus labor force abroad that will increase foreign remittances to Pakistan.
After that successful story from each association were presented by their respective representatives of the company.
Afterwards, successful stories from each association were presented by participating companies.
