It is a chicken and egg story for the Indian Material handling Industry as it sees a rise in demand for mechanized material handling (using forklifts in their material handling processes)as labor problems mar the day to operations in factories, warehouses etc.
Labor is available apparently cheap but not effective in taking care of the industries needs up to the level of its requirements. Health and safety norms for manual material handling are being increasingly enforced for factories and manufacturing unit making it difficult to get the work done as required.
One gentleman I came across is able to only run his plant at 50% efficiency due to labor problems as all material handling is done by laborers. Yet he is reluctant to introduce mechanized material handling to his production process which will enhance his productivity to 100%.
One gentleman has a major labor issue at his concrete block manufacturing unit, he runs his unit despite of heavy investments at 50% efficiency only as the labor at a time are only able to handle one part of his production process at a time, he clearly sees the advantage of increasing his production, but yet he has not yet made a decision on purchase of mechanized material handling equipment since last 3 months. If he would have made the decision by now he would have increased capacity to meet his customers demands and earned good profits.
It is missing the basic elements of Planning, Design, Execution for achieving the desired efficiency yet decision making or necessary investments are not being made fast enough to rise to the Challenge.
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Labor is available apparently cheap but not effective in taking care of the industries needs up to the level of its requirements. Health and safety norms for manual material handling are being increasingly enforced for factories and manufacturing unit making it difficult to get the work done as required.
One gentleman I came across is able to only run his plant at 50% efficiency due to labor problems as all material handling is done by laborers. Yet he is reluctant to introduce mechanized material handling to his production process which will enhance his productivity to 100%.
One gentleman has a major labor issue at his concrete block manufacturing unit, he runs his unit despite of heavy investments at 50% efficiency only as the labor at a time are only able to handle one part of his production process at a time, he clearly sees the advantage of increasing his production, but yet he has not yet made a decision on purchase of mechanized material handling equipment since last 3 months. If he would have made the decision by now he would have increased capacity to meet his customers demands and earned good profits.
It is missing the basic elements of Planning, Design, Execution for achieving the desired efficiency yet decision making or necessary investments are not being made fast enough to rise to the Challenge.
www.halaheavy.com
