Can Automation and Smart Staffing Bring Success to the PLI Backed Textile Sector?

Q1 FY23 brings in new hopes and directions for advancement and growth. It is essential to introspect about staffing solutions and smart hr solutions which can create a better impact. Can Automation and Smart staffing bring success to the PLI backed Textile sector? The answer is a big Yes.

PLI is expected to help in the growth of the businesses drastically and hence the requirement for manpower is going to be at an all-time high along with the automation. Staffing players like TeamLease have a major role to play in this journey in terms of providing skilled labour in a short span.

Identifying the pain-points such as employment concerns including less Jobs, low Wages, high attrition & employability issues due to low productivity, & lack of social security is essential to comprehend. Thereafter, offering of legitimate solutions such as optimization, specialisation, stability, predictability, innovation & skilling can be of a better choice. The difference at large can be observed when the thought leadership levers such as formalisation & human capital development can go ahead hand in hand.

Labour compliances and technology can move up to smoothen the manpower management, and learning opportunities for associates. These are going to be the key evaluators to become a worthy staffing partner to textile companies under the PLI scheme of the Government.

The textile industry in India contributes to about 5% of the GDP whereas it contributes about 7% of industry output, and about 12% of India’s export earnings.

MMF stands for man-made fibres and are of two varieties. The first one focuses on synthetic fibres which are produced from crude oil whereas the second one focuses on cellulosic fibres from the food pulp. Polyester, acrylic and polypropylene are the major varieties of the synthetic staple fibres. To expand and to ambit towards a specific function will bring quantitative and qualitative results, which for the textile industry is worth a focus.

This brings one to comprehend that the processes that can be dangerous to an individual such as spinning and dyeing, moving and making cloth pieces and fibres into fabrics or separation of seeds and cotton can be handled better, safer with the automation processes. With this, the smart workforce models can ensure job completion properly and efficiently.

What are the PLI schemes? Why are these important?

Production Linked Incentive scheme is being implemented by the government of India and aids in the growth and development of the sector. For the textile industry, the current focus is on the MMF productions, exports, PSF (Polyester staple fibre) and VSF (viscose staple fibre).