March 5, 2025: Industry Visit to Toyoda Gosei South India
Top executives of select manufacturing industries today had the rare opportunity to visit Toyoda Gosei South India Plant a Toyota Group company, the world class manufacturing unit located in Bidadi on the outskirts of Bangalore. Laghu Udyog Bharati-Karnataka hosted the industrial visit where top executives were taken around the facility.
Shri. B Thejkumar, Vice President – Operations, Quality and Product Development, Toyoda Gosei South India Pvt Ltd addressing industry leaders
A 25-member batch comprising of industry leaders and a few students formed part of the industry visit delegation. Shri. B Thejkumar, Vice President – Operations, Quality and Product Development, Toyoda Gosei South India Pvt Ltd apprised the team the importance of imparting training, embedding quality and following SOPs for a sustained company growth.
The select group of Executives got to see first-hand cutting-edge manufacturing facilities at the plant which rolls out high end quality injection moulding products.
The participants also interacted with the senior leadership team on the Lean Management Innovation that Toyota practices in its manufacturing processes. The Team shared key principles of Lean Manufacturing philosophy with the visiting participants that basically focuses on embedding quality in the assembly lines itself. The participants also got a peek on Toyota Group’s continuous improvement programmes where, it constantly strives for input cost reduction, value from waste and nurturing suppliers as their long-standing partners in business sustenance.
The participants were run through the fundamentals of Toyota Production System (TPS) through daily Management which is very essential to run any manufacturing facility. The
Toyota Production System (TPS) was established based on two concepts: The first is called “jidoka” (which can be loosely translated as “automation with a human touch”) which means that when a problem occurs, the equipment stops immediately, preventing defective products from being produced; The second is the concept of “Just-in-Time,” in which each process produces only what is needed by the next process in a continuous flow. Based on the basic philosophies of jidoka and Just-in-Time, the TPS can efficiently and quickly produce vehicles of sound quality, one at a time, that fully satisfy customer requirements.
Shri. Thejkumar said that that working with TPS allows companies to produce high-quality, cost-effective products, that are delivered to customers on time. The production respects the environment, which includes recycling of products at the end of their lifetime. And it also creates a safe workplace, both for the employees and the customers.
At the Toyoda facility, the visiting delegates experienced how meticulously each of the processes is planned at the manufacturing unit to roll out end-to-end finished product.
The industrial visit is part of Laghu Udyog Bharati-Karnataka’s member-connect programme, wherein best practices are shared with member companies so that they replicate the top-end manufacturing culture back at their own plants.