Monday, February 21, 2011

Textile Clusters in India Adopting Technology: A View into Project Vikas by Microsoft India

The Indian MSME's are tightly grouped into clusters. There are clusters of industries spread pan India, which are together working to take the respective industries to the next level of growth. The MSME has details on all such industry clusters present, their operational effectiveness and how they are building up, which industry clusters require what support and many more details.

Focus: Textile Clusters
Objective: to understand how textile clusters pan India are leveraging ICT
The IndiaMART Knowledge Services team has been closely studying the formation on such clusters and in our effort of bringing out some of the best practices being adopted by these clusters, we present to you, how the Textile Industry in India is being supported by large corporations like Microsoft to leverage the power of Information and Communication Technology (ICT).

The Background:
Textiles in India has been a generational trade and has been a strong value creator for the Indian economy. The production capacity in India has been increasing steadily, while maintaining the quality. The consumption patterns have also changed over years int he domestic market as well. As the buying power of the Indian consumer is increasing, the domestic consumption has grown to the next level as well.

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The Need: Technology
The Textiles industry, though has grown multi-folds in India, the export numbers are steadily growing as well. What has emerged out as a pressing need for the industry is the adoption of technology. Being a traditional industry, Textiles has not really been highly active with adoption of technology, which has changed now.

Change: The Inclusion and Adoption of Technology
This change was pending since long and there have been many steps taken in the past to propagate the adoption of emerging technology for textiles industry which has now taken shape.
Microsoft India, under the aegis of Project Vikas, along with the Tirupur Exporters Association launched online solutions for the textile manufacturing SMEs in Tirupur. The solutions include an online Desktop, a Hosted Email and Unified Communications module. Project Vikas is an initiative which is launched with an aim of improving upon the productivity of these textile units, collaborating to form an emerging industry cluster.

But Why Online/ Hosted Solutions?
The online/ hosted model obviously leaves the power in the hands of the customer by allowing him/ her to choose from the various sets of services on offer. Textile SMEs now have the option of choosing what they really find relevant to their respective businesses and manufacturing set-ups and hence include only the same to enhance their productivity through technology adoption.

Similar technology solutions have been created for many Small and Medium Enterprises in India. Team IndiaMART Knowledge Services will keep bringing you more opportunities, which enhance your knowledge and help you grow!


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