EVENTS Daman Pharma Summit 2023: Charting a blueprint for India Pharma Inc Daman Pharma Summit brought leaders, experts and veterans of the pharma sector together to deliberate upon the opportunities and challenges in the Union territory and discuss strategies for India's pharma industry
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xpress Pharma, a leading industry publication from The Indian Express Group, recently the Daman Pharma Summit on January 20, 2023, at The Deltin Hotel, Daman under the theme, ‘Sustaining and spearheading growth: Through pandemic and beyond.’ Daman, with its proximity to major cities like Mumbai and Surat, good connectivity via road, rail, air and water, growing infrastructure and conducive business climate, is key to the pharma sector. Consequently, a plethora of pharma companies has set up bases in the union territory. Daman Pharma Summit
2023 witnessed leaders and veterans of the life sciences in-
dustry come together to discuss the strengths and advan-
tages that Daman brings to the table, as India Pharma Inc
charts its blueprint for progress. Experts from the UT's pharma sector also deliberated upon the discuss strategies to optimise growth potential and shared learnings from the COVID-19 pandemic to enable sustained progress in a rapidly changing global milieu. Daman Pharma Summit 2023 focussed on key topics such as strategies to make and innovate in India; emerging opportunities and growth drivers in Daman, sustaining cost leadership with product excellence, Making quality cornerstone for growth, Best practices for regulatory compliance and growth etc..
Effective implementation of Lean Six Sigma and 5s in pharma manufacturing
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ajkumar Shirodkar, Sr VP, Sovereign Pharma spoke on effective implementation of Lean Six Sigma and 5s in pharma manufacturing at Daman Pharma Summit 2023. Shirodkar, a Black Belt in Lean and Six Sigma, drew from his experience in delivering significant financial benefits under lean and six sigma methodology and expertise in 5S concept and process excellence, and shared several valuable insights with the audience. He explained that the concept of lean production was pioneered by Toyota in the 60s and adopted by other Japanese manufacturers. Discovered later by western manufacturers in the 80s, it is known by many names: Toyota Production System, Just-In-Time, Lean Production etc. Though it was originally focused on manufacturing, now it is also ap-
Rajkumar Shirodkar, Sr VP, Sovereign Pharma
plied to transactional and service environments.
He informed that Six Sigma is a disciplined, customer-cen-
tric, data-driven approach and methodology for reducing
process variation and eliminating defects. Speaking on 5S, he explained that it is actually systematic organisation of the working space with goal of eliminating muda. He went to explain the various tools, methods and applications of these concepts. He also elaborated on quantitative and qualitative benefits of adopting these concepts in the pharma industry such as increase in employees’ productivity, reduction of cycle time, production time and cost of purchased material, reduction of machines breakdowns, increase in quality and process stability, improvement in material control and health & safety, increase in available space for workplace etc. He also highlighted that a clean and tidy workplace leads to greater well being, increased motivation and improvement in the company’s image.
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