With companies giving way to specialists in their lubrication management, we can only hope that plants may not encounter as many downtimes in the years to come.

Attendance recording system in most large organisations has gone through a major change in this era of Industry 4.0, as efficient and fool proof systems using the latest technology are available, though they could be expensive, says Dr Rajen Mehrotra.

Lubrication is generally taken for granted and little do O&M people realise that lubrication planning starts right from the arrival of lubricants in the main stores.

Imported coal prices have been on the declining trend for the last three months and have come off almost $25 since January and about $35 from the peak levels in July/August 2018, says ES Reddy.

Indian cement industry has already crossed several milestones on energy efficiency and sustainability parameters.

In the next 10 years (next decade), enterprises will tend to have an employment model where the permanent workers which presently is nearly 30 per cent will fall further and become 10 to 15 per cent of the workforce.

From learner to leader: See how Shree Cement with the help of automation, machine learning and predictive analysis has optimised its supply chain management.

In India quite many enterprises from 1990 have undertaken lean manufacturing or lean production, which is a systematic method for waste minimisation dealing with (Muda) within a manufacturing system without sacrificing productivity.

The year 2018 saw a wave of freight digitisation and investments across the industry.