About IIF
The Institute of Indian Foundrymen (IIF) – Western Region (WR), is the western regional body of the IIF, where we aim to provide education to the foundry industries in the form of seminars, training, providing technical publications etc for growth and enhancing technical capabilities of the members.
IIF head quarter is located at Kolkata and IIF WR office is located at Mumbai. IIF WR presently services to the foundry industries in Maharashtra, Gujarat and Madhya Pradesh through its 8 chapters - Ahmedabad, Greater Mumbai, Indore, Kolhapur, Nagpur, Pune, Rajkot, Vadodara.
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Activities Planned for IIF Western region in Year 2023-24
IIF Western region is one of the very active regions conducting various activities that are full of learning, meaningful talks and visits which focus on knowledge sharing.
In the coming months- our team will try its best to make sure that we continue on the same path for benefit of all foundries – big & small – to prepare for what comes next.
This year we will be working on the theme Reform -- Perform -- Get Future Ready! and events are planned accordingly.
Reform
We will take a hard look at all the characteristics of traditional foundries that make them unattractive to talent, future generations and new customers which is 3D - Dirty, Dark & Dangerous.
These are the core problems that foundries will face in the long run and we will analyse them and discuss practical, economic and reasonable solutions.
We will conduct sessions to bring awareness on Environmental, Health & Safety (EHS) with some practical and basic implementation that can be done by foundries of all size- to take a small step to lift ourselves in this area. Sessions will also cover the best practices in the foundry process to eliminate the dark spots which are cutting our profits
Perform
While theoretically the above may sound good, we will need to execute the same solutions at ground level. In this stage, we will conduct online as well as on-site training sessions, involving the shop floor workers on EHS, Best practices, Machine Maintenance etc.
Get Future Ready
Once we have started the process of change- we will explore greater marketing opportunities to unleash the potential of our units. We will provide a platform for exploring business opportunities through B2B meets, collaboration with export councils etc.