Seminars on Productivity Concepts and Techniques in English and Sinhala media on 13 and 15 Nov.

BizEx Consulting Ltd. announces two full-day seminars on Productivity Concepts and Techniques. The English medium seminar will be on 13 November at Galadari Hotel, while the Sinhala medium seminar will be on 15 November, at the Postgraduate Institute of Management. Both seminars will focus more on manufacturing and engineering industries.

While Sri Lanka’s manufacturing competitiveness is gradually being eroded with greater competitiveness of global producers, and Sri Lanka’s local market industries facing stiffer competition from imported products, very little effort is expended in adopting modern productivity techniques and using the full potential of workers to improve productivity. 

Perhaps this is due to insufficient knowledge. Traditionally Sri Lanka has not had a strong state institutional mechanism to promote productivity techniques unlike Singapore, India, Thailand and Malaysia which had strong National Productivity Organisations with substantial resources to carry out campaigns to raise productivity of their local industries. 

As a result the larger industries which could afford foreign and local productivity experts commissioned them to introduce productivity improvement techniques and processes, while some sent teams to Japan and other countries to study and adopt new techniques, the smaller industries continued to languish with low productivity. This often led to a declining spiral of lower profits, low capacity to pay market wages, and low capital formation.

These seminars will deal with measuring productivity and developing appropriate ratios and then proceed to teach techniques such as motion economy, factory layout and workplace layout, creating a productive environment, method study, basic ergonomics, designing jigs and fixtures, designing work for less fatigue etc. At the end of the seminar participants should be able to introduce these techniques to their workplaces. 

BizEx Consulting Ltd. and its Chief Consultant Sunil G. Wijesinha has been pioneering many techniques and pioneered the introduction of the Japanese style Quality Circles, 5S, Kaizen Suggestion Scheme, Poka Yoke, TQM, etc. Sri Lankan industries have greatly benefited from this effort and many have adopted these and other techniques, thereby improving their productivity and improving their value to customers. 

Sunil Wijesinha, the resource person for both seminars, has had years of experience starting as an Industrial Engineer and rising to become a Chairman/MD and understands how to introduce productivity techniques to different cultures and even state owned enterprises. Wijesinha a Chartered Engineer, is a qualified productivity practitioner, a management accountant and has an MBA.

He was recognised by the Asian Productivity Organisation head-quartered in Tokyo for his efforts in promoting productivity in Sri Lanka and later for his efforts in promoting productivity in the Asia Pacific Region. 

More details of the seminar could be obtained from B’ Connected on telephone

011 2 503 510, Mobile: 0776 371 134/0767 318 537, Fax: 011 2 507 345 or by email to [email protected].