e-Seminars and Webinars Connecting Customers and Partners
Published on : Friday 14-08-2020
Virtual E-Seminar is the new normal for Yaskawa India Robotics to support industry in making a new India.
The Covid-19 pandemic has made every business and individual think of ways and means to combat the aftermath. The prolonged lockdown – total in the initial weeks and partial subsequently – ruled out travel and holding of physical events. With the very survival at stake, the challenge was to keep the workforce motivated and business going. At Yaskawa India, it was time to revamp the normal way of doing things and support the clientele with innovative ways for the new normal. The company initiated a one of its kind program of virtual e-Seminars and webinars connecting with its customers and partners to help them improve their industrial and manufacturing businesses vis-à-vis automotive, non-automotive, tier1/2, FMCG and MSMEs, etc.
On May 25th 2020, an e-Seminar [Gujarat Chapter] was organised by Yaskawa India Robotics division wherein for the first time on an open virtual common platform industry colleagues were invited via different channels with an agenda to enable them learn virtually about the Robotic automation and how Yaskawa Arc Welding technologies can help their businesses to streamline their productivity, add value in manufacturing lines, save on production cost and to deliver the quality and speedy output in this new normal followed by question answer session.
“The program acted as an open platform for businesses to experience serendipitous bonding with Yaskawa India team. Moreover, the benefit with such initiatives has a lot going for businesses as virtually doing events like these are more accessible, save attendees time as they don’t have to travel, more flexible and in some ways is good for environment too,” cited Ajay Gurjar, COO – Robotics Division, Yaskawa India Private Limited.
Ajay Gurjar added, “At crucial times also, Yaskawa India team proved to stand with its customers with 24x7 support, e-Seminar [Gujarat Chapter] and various webinars which transformed the learning capabilities of manufacturing and automation during the lockdown period. Over 90 plus trainings Pan India were conducted with more than 2800 attendees from 300+ automotive and non-automotive companies. Topics covered namely, post lockdown –digital solutions guide on robot maintenance, basic operations and maintenance of arc welding, handling, spot welding, painting applications, Motosim introduction and basic operations.”
“In past times, Yaskawa organised Customer Seminars with physical presence house full of hundreds of people reacting to it. When you get to watch people’s reaction – the laughs, the claps, and the gasps – it’s unlike anything else in events like these. People know what to expect from physical events, while online events are still a relatively new concept to some,” said Arshleen Ahluwalia, AM-Marketing Communications, Yaskawa India Pvt Ltd and moderator of e-Seminar [Gujarat Chapter].
“At Yaskawa India, we always keep on experimenting with new ideas to deliver our best & stand strong to meet customer’s expectations. Whether events are virtual or physical, if you put the great work out there, you will find the audience,” shared Arshleen Ahluwalia.
“While considering the need to run companies with minimum manpower and adherence to social distancing, Yaskawa India see Robotics as the solution for future manufacturing and value supply chain delivering the best in class Robotics automation and AI with Industry 4.0 as smart factory notion increasing the work from home feasibility. To do so, we shall keep ourselves up to hold such events again and again benefitting customers and economy with industrial growth,” said Mayank Jain, Regional Manager – Gujarat and presenter at e-Seminar [Gujarat Chapter].
Team Yaskawa India strongly believes, ‘Do It Right and how we can bring value 365 days of the year.’ As the situation will take time in getting real normal, industry shall start production to grow and enable economy expands beyond; Yaskawa stands as a backbone to rectify manufacturing problems and would like to congratulate everyone for doing exciting things at their companies and urge to upkeep health for both machinery and self.
Source: Arshleen Ahluwalia, Asst. Manager – Marketing Communication, Yaskawa India Pvt Ltd.
