ROLE OF FDDI IN FOOTWEAR SECTOR
FDDI is popularly known as Footwear
Design & Development Institute. FDDI was set up by the Ministry of Commerce
and Industry, Government of India in the year 1986 with an objective to develop professional Human
resources within the country by imparting appropriate knowledge and skills to
promote growth and to provide one stop solution to Footwear and Leather allied
industry in the country.
Before starting the role of FDDI, firstly we will have a
glance look on Indian Footwear Industry and its growth
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India is the second largest producer of footwear after china. India’s export of
footwear touched US $ 2531.04 million in 2013-14, accounting for a share of
41.14% in India’s total export from the leather sector of US $ 4996.91million. The
Indian footwear sector is the ‘growth engine’ of the Indian Leather Industry.
Value in US$ Mn
India’s
export of footwear has increased from US$ 1507.59 million in 2009-10 to US$
2531.04 million in 2013-14, growing at a CAGR of 13.82% in the last five years ending 2013-14.
Export
of different categories of Footwear holds a major share of about 43% in India’s total leather &
leather Products exports with an export value of US$ 2531.04mn.
India
is the only major source for supplying medium and low-priced footwear.
Moreover, most of the global footwear manufacturers, particularly European
manufacturers who were sourcing from China, have now turned to India. Nike,
Adidas and Puma are some of the footwear majors are expected to route parts of
their production and purchase out from China to India. Reputed global brands
like Nunn Bush, Stacy Adams, Gabor, Clarks, Reebok, Hasley, Salamander and
Colehaan are manufactured under license in India. US Retail giant Wal-Mart has
also begun sourcing footwear from India like that many global retail chains
seeking quality products at competitive prices are actively sourcing footwear
from India.
India has emerged in recent years as a relatively sophisticated low to
medium cost supplier to world markets. The Footwear industry has potential to provide
employment across all sections of the economy Industry estimates of employment
potential 5 lakh jobs in next 3 years.
Mr.Puran
Dawar, President of Agra Footwear Exporter and Manufactures Chamber (AFMEC)
said that the target was to 'Make in India with Zero Defect and Zero Effect',
which means that the quality of footwear produced in Agra should be above all
standards, while its effect on the environment should be minimum, to the point
of being Zero. FDDI Contribution in Central Government Make in India can be
seen on. http://www.makeinindia.com/sector/leather
Footwear
and leather sector industries are the largest industry in term of generating
employment and there is huge opportunity for the youth to establish own
factories, job work, production workshops, design studios, consultancy services
etc.
The Indian shoe industry, including both the organized and
the unorganized sector, the most of footwear industry is unorganized because
they following traditional methods since the inception there is Lack of
professional and educated man power in the industry, using manual methods of
production and techniques, lack of R&D and innovative technique etc. FDDI
contribute a lot towards the up gradation of footwear industries. With the
objective to stream line the footwear industry by providing technocrat and
skilled man power for the upliftment of the industry to compete the market at
international level.
Dedicatedly, FDDI transform the footwear industry from
unorganized to organized way, by providing highly educated footwear
professionals, handling the day to day working of the industry from designing
to production and up to the level of final packaging of shoes. It is the best
example that most of the footwear companies’ top level officers, Presidents,
MD, Directors are the FDDI alumni’s.
FDDI CONTRIBUTION FOR UPGRADATION OF FOOTWEAR
SECTOR.
1. INTERNATIONAL
TESTING CENTRE (ITC)
FDDI International Testing
Center is a state-of-the-art facility established under German collaboration
with the PFI Germany and with Bally, Switzerland. The center specializes in
testing of leather products, footwear, footwear components, textile products
& miscellaneous articles made up of plastics. In fact, it is the first
facility of its own kind in whole of Asia to receive the coveted international
accreditation from the Deutsche Germany for ISO 17025. ITC’s
services represent an unmatched blend combining expertise with contemporary
technology and modern equipment. Besides, it also possesses the flexibility to
address a company’s unique individual requirement. ITC functioning in
both of FDDI center Noida and Chennai.
Accreditations:-
Ø The International Testing Center is the
only laboratory in India which has been ISO 17025 certified by Deutsche
Akkreditierungsstelle DAkkS of Germany.
Ø Our labs is also ISO 9001 & ISO
14001 certified
Ø The International Testing Center, ITC
FDDI, is accredited by SATRA.
Ø Over and above our labs are recognized
by various organizations and institutions.
The
above accreditations underline our commitment in providing world-class service
to our customers in India and abroad so that they can compete globally and
sustain their growth and potential.
INDUSTRY NEED:-
The
International Testing Center offers a comprehensive range of physical and
chemical tests on a variety of materials and products. It has a full complement
of state of art testing equipment; all calibrated to the most demanding
industry standards. The tests at the laboratories are conducted as per various
standards depending on the customer’s requirement. Presently, the following materials
and products are covered.
Ø Leather for Footwear & Garments
Ø Textile and Fabrics
Ø Complete Footwear, Components &
Allied Materials
Ø Automobile (Parts & Accessories)
Ø Ageing and Weathering Tests
Ø Banned Chemicals including Disperse
Dyes
2.
SKILL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME
One of the Biggest achievement of FDDI that
till 30th November 2015, FDDI has trained 3,13,465 trainees & placed
2,52,335 candidates in various Footwear Industries across the country under
PLSDP Programme. It is the huge figure of employment given after training in specified
field by any Organization. Its show the opportunities in footwear sectors being
provided by FDDI.
The
Programme is designed for 06 Weeks (Incl. Classroom & Factory internship)
and with objective to translate a fresh / unemployed/ unskilled candidate to a
Semi- Skilled Operator, ready for Wage Employment in Footwear/ Garment/ Allied
industry, where operation on stitching machines is majority performed.
Alternately, he/She may also have access to precise Technical education for
his/her Self-Employment (Entrepreneurship).The Programme is to run free of Cost
to trainee and any Person aged 18-30 years, preferably unemployed and from EWS
can apply.
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During the
Programme free Training Kits, Study book, ID card, Stationary etc. is
provided to student. Free refreshment/ snacks are provided once a day, to
each participant, for whole Programme. On successful completion of the
Programme, a Certificate shall be awarded jointly by FDDI- SSE authority and
trainee to be placed in relevant Industry for employment opportunity.
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In continuation to
11th Five Year Plan Footwear Design & Development Institute (FDDI) is
implementing “Placement Linked Skill Development Programme (PLSDP) under the
XIIth Five Year Plan of the Government of India in association with
Department for Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP).The training programmes
were conducted at various operators training centers such as Agra, Kanpur,
Fursatganj, Bareilly, Delhi/NCR, Bahadurgarh, Kolkata, Ranipet, Maharastra
& Bihar. To provide the training programme at doorstep of unemployed
youth, various sub-centers were also established in the remote areas &,
the training programmes were also carried out at the places provided by the
factory owners, shoe organizations & other onsite locations. The areas of
specialization of the training were mainly Cutting, Closing, Lasting and
Finishing
The course curriculum of this training is as follows:
Cutting- Tin Pattern Making, Hand Cutting,
Machine Cutting, Leather Inspection, Quality region of Hide and Side leather,
Part of shoe, how to cut leather with quality- leather manipulation.
Closing- Types of Needles, Threads, Relation between thread and
needle, Different types of stitching machines, Different types of stitching
operations (seams), Upper making & minor machine maintenance.
INDUSTRY NEED:-
The requirement of
the training program has been improved in quality and the increase in
productivity with use of modern techniques, tool standardization, designs and
methods. The efforts
to increase the availability of skilled manpower is of crucial significance
as the growing skill manpower shortage is posing constraints for utilizing
the full growth potential of the Indian Leather industry and the FDDI is
leaving no stone unturned as far as the growth of the footwear and leather
products industries industry is concerned. FDDI has already provided trained, manpower to renowned
footwear companies such as M/s. Prime Shoes Chennai, M/s. N. M. Zackriah
& Company, Ambur, M/s. Dawar Shoes Agra, M/S. Arvind Footwear Kanpur,
M/s. Rohit Surftrants Kanpur, M/s. SSIPL Ltd., Sonepat, M/s. Super House, Unnao,
M/s. Tata International, Dewas, M/s. Oscar Leather Mohali, etc. The
requirement to train the workers from other companies is also coming.
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3.
RESOURCE CENTER
FDDI's
Resource-cum-Information Publication Centre (RCIP) brings you an exhaustive and
unparalleled resource and information base. The Centre provides timely,
policy-relevant information and decision support to government agencies,
non-profit organizations, and the industry across the country and around the
globally.
The
Centre publishes a series of specialized manuals called “Swayam Siddha
Manuals” (the art of self-learning), which deals on different aspects of
leather & leather products manufacturing. These “Swayam Siddha Manuals”
covers the entire aspects of manufacturing and is a tri-lingua book (Hindi,
English & Tamil), made in a very lucid manner and is easily understood by
the persons working at all the levels. These manuals are in module & covers
safety, tools and so on with all basic needs of technical terms being used in manufacturing
of leather & leather products.
INDUSTRY NEED:-
Swayam
Siddha Manuals Books helps to understand the technical as well as the practical
knowledge of footwear production operation with well given demonstration
example and photos. Swayam siddha books and training material provide all the
basic level knowledge which actually worker required. It helps to trained and
imparts the basic knowledge of the footwear industry.
4.
PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT CENTER
The
Product Development Center (PDC) creates a design data bank based on the latest
fashion information, lasts, soles and leather. These designs are kept for
display at FDDI premises so that the footwear industry can avail the latest
fashion information. To make this facility more effective, FDDI’s PDC uses its
most sophisticated software systems, such as,
Ø 2D &
3D CAD Systems.
Ø CAM Systems,
NC Machining.
Ø Surface
Modeling Systems, to provide end-to-end solutions.
PDC develops the designs for the industry as per their
specific requirement keeping in mind the targeted market segment. The services
of our PDC are not only availed by Indian industries that includes, major
export houses but from various companies overseas from U.K., Sri Lanka,
Pakistan, Nepal, South Africa, Bangladesh, etc.
INDUSTRY NEED:-
Progressive looking exporters who
desire to invest in design range building may be supported to set up design
studio in their factories. Design studios in institutions that need to
complement their activities and add value to the services rendered by them to
the industry or for design research may be supported as well:-Studios run by
free-lance designers may be given opportunities at Indian expositions at
subsidized cost to enable them to reach out to the industry through design
alleys.
5. International
Design Studio
The
IDS (International Design Studio) develops its own design collection (Last
shape, concept on design, material, color and accessories along with the
prototype samples) for the industry on demand and as the routine exercise of
FDDI Student to know the current trends of conceptual designing. The Design
Center also provides its customers with new original and exclusive sketches and
design development on request order meet the international standard
requirement. Design Center also develops its own design collection for Display
at various fairs and exhibitions, for that all necessary information sourced by
our Designers. The information are collected from study of International trend
Magazines, Designers, Fair visits, Market research and traveling by our Designers
from time to time In case the customer provides the sketches, photographs or
shoes in that case design center provide the pattern cutting services. Regular workshops of shoe designing are
being conducted time to time by the renowned shoes designer from Italy.
INDUSTRY NEED:-
There is continuous need to focus
on design and pattern development for leather products and institutional
support is this aspect is necessary. Institutions may like to train/retrain
their personnel with exposure to international methods. International designing
workshop help Students to get interacted with the latest trends and designing
concept for the overall development of future shoe designer. The same is
applicable for the candidates from the industry as well.
6. CAD /
CAM LABS
FDDI’s
PDC is well equipped with modern software for last modelling. The software used
are one of the most advanced software in the field of last modelling and uses
the latest techniques for generating the last data from the actual foot scanning.
The accuracy can be rated up to 100 per cent. Besides using this software for
the style last designing for the domestic as well as export market, this will
prove a blessing for the people who are having foot deformities and are not
able to get a proper pair of shoes which can fit their feet.
FDDI
provides the grading services to the industry through its well-equipped CAD
Center. Besides the Indian market FDDI is providing its grading services to
various other overseas companies based in Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Pakistan,
Nepal etc.
INDUSTRY NEED:-
We need to popularize the use of
3D CAD system for the last digitizing and modeling, conceptual designing and
sole design and manufacture. The design studios in institutions and factories
need to be equipped with the latest cad system in addition to other automated
peripherals like the die-less cutter to directly cut the leather and punch
cutter for cutting materials of higher thickness.
7. SAMPLE
DEVELOPMENT
The
Design Studio is backed by the services of well-equipped sample room. Designs
developed by the design studio are tested for its fittings, aesthetic taste,
proportions, leather qualities and other costing aspects and finally handed
over to the customers. The sample room also provides sampling services to those
entrepreneurs who do not have in-house facilities for sample developments. As
their part of study students are engaged to develop various range of footwear like
open footwear, sports and casual footwear etc. and being displayed time to time
to show case their creativity and talent. The selected designs are being
awarded by accolade in different segments.
INDUSTRY NEED:-
We need upgrade the sample
development cells and employ trained technicians to use world class equipment
to translate them into products comparable with the best worldwide. The same
development cell should be stocked with samples of leather, fabrics lasts soles
heels and other components in accordance with the latest fashion trends and
produce samples that can be exhibited at international fora.
8.
PROTOTYPE DEVELOPMENT
Development
of Rapid Prototyping technologies, 3 D printing and advances in CAD and design
methodologies led to a revolution in product development strategies. Today,
India is second to none when it comes to developing innovative, new products.
In this success, advanced CAD and 3D printing / Rapid Prototype are playing an
increasingly important role.
FDDI
has the distinction of introducing the latest 3D printing technologies in the
service of Indian footwear industry. This is first installation of its kind in
India. It can produce a model within 3 to 4 hours with high accuracy and smooth
finish for which other Rapid Prototyping machines may take 3 to 4 days for
printing.
INDUSTRY NEED:-
The
question may arises where will it improve the business and how? The answer lies
in these four semi sentences.
a. To prove
the product
b. To sell
the product
c. To make
the product
d. To
reduce the cost and lead-time
9.
Last Modeling
The
foot scanner scans the foot up to the leg height in all the 3 dimensions and
thus gives a proper fit and comfort for the user of the shoes developed on the
so developed lasts. The last can be generated from the scanned cloud data and
milled out on a tabletop milling machine. The process is too fast and cut the
lead-time down as well as cost effective.
INDUSTRY
NEED:-
Last modeling develop the new concept to work with
innovative ideas and help the manufacture to reduce the cost of making the shoes
with well satisfy customers and with less time consuming process.
10. Sole
Designing & Mould Making
Sole
designing and sole mould designing, till recently was non-existent in India. 20
to 25 per cent of the total foreign exchange earnings from the footwear
industry were plaguing back to the suppliers of the sole and sole mould. FDDI
has taken a big leap in the direction and installed the most sophisticated and
is one of the most advanced software for sole and sole mould designing. These
software systems takes the care of surface modelling of the sole and hands over
the data to a Milling system, which can use the surface modelling data for the
CNC use and thus complete the sole mould designing.
INDUSTRY NEED:-
By this important step of FDDI towards making sole designing
and mould making facility it’s not only stops the dependency of Indian
manufacturer over foreign countries, but also help to earn more profit with
high satisfaction.
11. FDDI DEVELOP ANTI MINE SHOE FOR INDIAN ARMY
Footwear Design and Development Institute (FDDI), Noida, in
association with Defense Material Store Research Development Establishment
(DMSRDE) has developed an 'Anti-Mine Blast Shoes' for the Armed forces of the
country. ''The Shoe mitigates the shock energy of mine blast to restrict the
sustainable injuries level to the minimum. These shoes would prove to be real
life-savers for the troops posted in terrorism affected areas,'' FDDI said in a
statement.
As per the directions of the Ministry of Defence, the
product is an outcome of two years long intense efforts of Research and
Development teams of both the organization.
Explaining about the technical specifications of the shoes
Mr VB Parvertikar, Technical Director, FDDI said,''The 'Anti-Mine Blast' shoe
mitigates the landmine blast shock energy of 40 thousand per cm square to 160
per cm square. The shoe has an insert block which turns into powder to absorb
about 95 per cent of the shock energy caused by landmine blast. It thus,
provides a protection shield to the legs of the soldiers to sustain only minor
injuries.'' Terminal Ballistic Research Laboratory has also tested the shoes
successful and now it has been sent to the Army for test by the soldiers.
''Developed by intense research efforts of two years the anti-mine boot weighs
35 gm,''
12.
CONSULTANCY SERVICES
FDDI also offer the consultancy services for the purpose to provide
one stop solutions to all problem faced by footwear sectors. From factory set
up, layout making, designing issues, troubleshooting, cost reduction and
productivity & quality improvement, sourcing, documentation and software
development.FDDI has helped lot of industries for transfer of latest technology
and improvement of quality and productivity.
FDDI have international project in many
countries like Ethiopia, South Africa,Kenya, Botswana, Nigeria, Vietnam,
Srilanka, Bangladesh.
INDUSTRY NEED:-
Consultancy helped the indian exporters to
improve the competitiveness in the international market.The services are given
as per the requirement of the individual industry. The key areas of consultancy
are following:-
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TROUBLESHOOTING
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Productivity
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Quality improvement
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Cost reduction
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Material saving
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Process improvement
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Skill upgradation
Ø
Quality system
Pradeep Kumar Shukla
Associate Faculty FDDI
