Toshiba facility in TS gets JIM tag

Hyderabad: CITY-based Toshiba Transmission & Distribution Systems (India) Pvt. Ltd., (TTDI), a Toshiba Group company that manufactures and sells distribution transformers, power transformers and switchgears, along with EPC business, has been certified by Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (METI) as a Japan-India Institute for Manufacturing (JIM).

The JIM Project is a part of the Manufacturing Skill Transfer Promotion Program, a joint program by METI and India's Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship launched in November 2016. The project aims to establish Japanese-style institutes in India for training Japanese standard shop floor leaders and engineers, focusing on areas such as kaizen and the 5S (sort, set in order, shine, standardize and sustain).

These institutes develop human resources that play central roles in the manufacturing sites of the future. Since last year, TTDI has been providing fundamental skill training to newly hired personnel and multi-skill training to existing employees at its human resource development facility - the TTDI Skill Development Center.