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AOTS empowers JUKI technicians to sharpen service skills

Continuing with its efforts to impart technical and management training in India, The Association of Overseas Technical Scholarship, AOTS, recently organised a five-day technical seminar to equip the Juki technicians from all over India and Bangladesh with technical skills to service more efficiently.

“Providing efficient and timely service to the garment industry has been the key objective of JUKI India office and with this training our technicians will be fully familiarised not only with standard adjustments but will also be able to dismantle and reassemble our latest machines like MF 7700 series : Flatlock machines, MF 7800 series : Cylinder Bed Flatlock machines and MO 6000 series : Overlock machines,” informed Mr Masahiro Oba, managing director of JUKI India.

“Having initiated the process of ‘Kaizen’, the Japanese word that means improvement, JUKI will continue to introduce the best in technology and service standards to prepare the Indian garment industry for the post MFA era,” Mr Oba added.

The two Japanese experts Mr Ikeda and Mr Tanaka explained minutely each and every problem that the man on any new machine may face or the difficulties that the industry workers face while adapting to any new technology. Though the new series of JUKI machines had been test-marketed for the past six months without any complaints or problems, still it would be vital to understand the machines thoroughly, they said. Speaking to the participants at the concluding session of the AOTS JUKI seminar, Mr Shinichi Miyamoto, general manager, AOTS said, “Today you have received the certificate of this course. However, this is not the end but the beginning of your efforts in your company. In this sense, the certificate does not mean to certify your skill but, so to speak, it is a request letter from Japanese people who ask you to continue the contribution to your company. I hope the deliberations of this programme were immensely useful to you in improving your knowledge and that you will be able to implement the same while you are servicing your clients. Please share your knowledge with your colleagues, subordinates and also technicians and workers in the garment industry so that a large number of people can benefit.”

With technical expertise of Japan and human resource strength of India, exporters here can build a reliable and unshakable name in the world market, he concluded.

AOTS, a non-profit organisation, was established in 1959 with the support of the Japanese ministry of economy trade and industry (METI) and leading Japanese companies. Its main purpose is to promote technical cooperation for the industrial development of developing countries and enhance mutual understanding and friendly relations between those countries and Japan. Since then, AOTS is imparting technical and management training to engineers and managers from all the developing countries. In the last 44 years, AOTS has accepted about 107,000 people from about 150 countries, including more than 5,800 from India for training in Japan. AOTS organises programmes not only in Japan but also overseas in response to needs of industries in various countries. In one of its schemes called ‘Overseas Technical Training Programs’, it sends teams of experts from Japan so that many people can benefit by attending these programmes in their countries. AOTS has imparted training to more than 138,600 people under this scheme. This is one such programme being conducted in India this year. The trainees of AOTS have established Alumni Societies in their countries and there are about 70 Alumni Societies all over the world. In India there are eight societies. AOTS implements various training programmes outside Japan in response to the requests by the Alumni Societies based on needs of the countries concerned. These could be seminars, lectures or overseas technical training programmes.