The two-day summit, organised on October 30 and 31, was the annual flagship event of the CII-Avantha Centre for Competitiveness for SMEs, aimed at giving a new direction to the cluster movement and enable networking amongst Indian SMEs and their Eco System, a release from Coimbatore Zone of CII, said.
Highlights of the event were Kaizen Gallery Exhibition and Cluster Championship and Kaizen Awards which were given away to companies, who have excelled through Cluster Approach.
Awards for excellence in areas of Manufacturing Excellence, Cost Competitiveness, Energy Efficiency, Total Employee Involvement, Productivity, Quality, Safety and Environment were given way to enterprises both in Large and MSME sector.
Case study and Kaizen entries came in from all across the country numbering more than 200 and 500 respectively, it said.