Achievements of FDDI in footwear sector
Madhulika Singh,
Faculty FDDI
The
Footwear Design and Development Institute (FDDI) was established in 1986 to
enhance India's share in the global leather merchandise and to contain the
skilled labour crunch in the Indian leather industry.
FDDI
Campuses Across India -
12 campuses :- We
have opened twelve state-of-the-art campuses at Noida, Fusatganj, Chennai,
Kolkata, Rohtak, Patna , Hyderabad , Ankleshwar, Chandigarh , Guna ,
Chhindwara & Jodhpur
FOUR DIMENSIONAL PARAMETERS OF FDDI
ACHIEVEMENTS
1. FDDI FULL TIME
PROGRAMS TO GROOM TALENTED TECHNICIANS / MANAGERS / DESIGNERS
2. FDDI PLSDP
PROGRAMS FOR SKILL DEVELOPMENT OF WORKERS WHERE AIM WAS TO TRAINED UNEMPLOYED
& UNSKILLED PEOPLES AND PLACEMENT ASSISTANCE.
3. FDDI
CONSULTANCY PROGRAMS FOR INDIAN COMPANIES & FOREIGN PROJECTS ACROSS THE
ASIA,WORLD.
4. FDDI TESTING
& OTHER INDUSTRIAL SUPPORT PROGRAMS FOR INDUSTRY SUPPORT.
1-FDDI FULL
TIME PROGRAMS TO GROOM TALENTED TECHNICIANS / MANAGERS / DESIGNERS –
Full time
programs offered in –
ü
FDDI School of Footwear Design & Production (FSFDP)
ü
FDDI School of Retail & Fashion Merchandise (FSRFM)
ü
FDDI School of Fashion leather Accessory Design (FSFLAD)
ü
FDDI School of Fashion Design(FSFD)
ü
FDDI School of Business & Entrepreneurship (FSBE)
2-CONTRIBUTION IN PLSDP PROGRAMS-
“PLSDP is one of
the biggest programme of the country and we all want our exports to increase,
and that our leather exports should increase more than 30% in which leather, footwear
sector should have a huge role & share and this is only possible when FDDI
trains more people.”
he Placement Linked Skill Development Programme (PLSDP) under
the Eleventh Five Year Plan has been efficiently implemented by FDDI in
association with Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP). FDDI has
implemented the PLSDP through establishment of training centers at Kanpur, Agra
and at the FDDI sub-centers at Mumbai, Bangalore and Chennai in addition to
various on-site locations across the country. At these
locations, unemployed youth from the economically weaker section of the
society are selected, trained and provided assistance to get employment in
the footwear industry.
FDDI has completed the training target of 12960 and the
placement of approximately 83% of the successful trainees against a target of
75 % set by the Government of India.
Establishment of FDDI’s Operators Training Center at agra ,
kanpur , raebareli , mumbai , banaglore , cheenai ...........etc
The Operators Training Center has been established under the
Placement Linked Skill Development Programme (PLSDP) scheme of Department for
Industrial Policy and Promotion (DIPP), Government of India to address the
problem of lack of trained manpower faced by the Indian leather and leather
products industry. The Center at present is offering the basic operators course
in cutting and closing to unemployed youth.
All the centres reflects the fact that the
students are in dire need for training to become self reliant and increase
their income after successfully completing their training at the Operators
Training Center. FDDI’s efforts in creating a trained work force through short
and intensive training programmes has been a great success and applauded at
various fora as an innovative and effective approach.
3-FDDI CONSULTANCY PROGRAMS FOR
FOREIGN PROJECTS ACROSS THE ASIA,WORLD-
The leading international institutions/organizations like ARS
Sutoria (Milan, Italy), PFI (Germany), LDT- Nagold (Germany), SATRA (UK),
University of Applied Sciences (Pirmasens, Germany), Gabor (Germany) etc. have
linked up with FDDI and many more are to join hands for mutual cooperation and
support.
Delegations from France, Indonesia, Germany, Botswana,
Ethiopia and Nike-Indonesia have visited FDDI in the year 2010-11.
FDDI services are highly sought after in Asian & African
countries. It has undertaken the Technological Upgradation and Global
Benchmarking project of leading footwear industries in Ethiopia after
establishing an international consultancy wing in FDDI. On successful
completion of the project, the institute bagged a prestigious project of institutional
capacity building and bringing in international academic standards in
Ethiopia.
FDDI is supporting the Leather Sector of Ethiopia in its
Growth & Transformation Plan (GTP) for upgrading the Leather Industry
Development Institute (LIDI) of Ethiopia. Discussions for a similar
intervention for the Leather Sector Institute in Botswana are in final stages.
4- FDDI
TESTING & OTHER INDUSTRIAL SUPPORT PROGRAMS FOR INDUSTRY SUPPORT.
The International Testing Center (ITC) at FDDI has been
upgraded and is presently the only Testing centre in the country having ISO
17025 certification from DAR, Germany and prestigious quality certifications
such as - ISO 9001 & ISO 14000. ITC Noida has been confirmed as a “RITES
APPROVED LABORATORY” by RITES Ltd., and has got accreditation from NISSAN
(RENAULT) Germany for testing automobile plastic components. ITC is the first
lab in India certified by PFI Germany for CONFORMITE EUROPEENNE (CE) marking
Test.
The lab has been approved by the prestigious international buying
houses like ARCADIA, TESCO and DEBEN HAMS of UK, WOLWORTH of Australia and
South Africa, ZEOX of EU countries, ZARA of Spain and Li & Fung.
The Chemical & Physical testing Lab managed by highly
trained technical professionals has complete state of art testing equipment
like GCECD, GCMS, HPLC, UV Visible, DSC, TGA etc.
To support the southern region, ITC Chennai was taken up for upgradation. With accreditation from leading international organizations like PFI-Germany and SATRA-UK, the testing lab at Chennai is fully functional. This year the lab has been approved by the leading Gabor Group of Germany for testing.
FDDI has conducted various international events, seminars and
workshops this year in collaboration with ARS Sutoria.
The project undertaken by FDDI for the development of
eco-friendly footwear products and accessories using worn tyres and tubes, in
collaborations with M/s J K Tyres, has been successfully implemented.
ACHIEVEMENTS OF FDDI - A
MILESTONE SINCE 1986-2016
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1.
1.
Awards
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FDDI has been awarded ISO
9001 in 1995 by BVQI, ISO 14001 in 1999 and ISO 17025 for laboratories in the
year 2002.
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2. Placement
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Since inception, FDDI has
been making 100% placement of students who have undergone
long-term courses in
FDDI.
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3.Training of Foreign Scholars
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The
students from Nepal, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Bangladesh are attending regular courses at FDDI.
4. Design / Development-
FDDI
has designed & developed Bamboo Footwear for Handicrafts Commissioner
5. Consultancy-
FDDI has provided
consultancy for development of quality systems and environment systems for various clusters for
handicrafts for award of ISO 9001 and ISO 14001.
FDDI has successfully
completed the LIDCAP assignment for setting up of Common Facility Center at
Hyderabad.
6. Approval of Testing
Center-
The laboratory
services have been approved by WALMART, USA, HUDSON Bay, Canada, GE Motors, India, Defiance,
Railways, DGS&D, BIS etc.
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FDDI has set up a Common Facility Center to
help & encourage Small Scale Industries units, cottage industries by providing
capital intensive sophisticated footwear machines on a nominal rent. The
facilities equipped with cutting, closing, component making, lasting – flat
lasting, force lasting, direct vulcanized moulding, direct injection
moulding, EVA Injection moulding, PU/TPU injection moulding, Goodyear welted
plant etc. The center has facility of power supply backup, compressed air and
water supply.
7.Common Facility Center
Ø FDDI provided special
training for Reebok staff in the year 1996.
Ø Sri Lankan students were
trained for one year in Footwear Technology at Colombo in collaboration with
IDB, Sri Lanka. The successful students were awarded FDDI diploma in the year
2000
Ø FDDI conducted one year
intensive course for Philippine scholars in the year 2001.
8.Revival
and Upgradation of Traditional Footwear in Leh
FDDI has initiated a baseline survey
of artisans making traditional footwear in Leh. The product is known as “Papu
Shoe” and is being made from local material and its special characteristic is
that it can withstand extremely low temperature. The survey is likely to be
completed by December 2004 and thereafter appropriate interventions for
upgrading its quality etc. will be undertaken with the assistance under ILDP.
9. Focus on sport shoe technology-
The Indian Footwear Industry currently
produces about 850 million – shoes pairs per annum in leather and non-leather
segments. Exports from India are projected to cross the US$1000 million mark
shortly in total estimated market size of India being US$6 billion.
FDDI has set up of the
Sports Shoe technology center in the FDDI complex with the following
objectives :
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The
technical inputs to the trainees have to be continuously updated.
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The
future technological trends & its exposure to the trainees in related
field.
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Scope
of research & development activities.
10.
Ethnic footwear-
FDDI
is promoting Society for Marketing of Artisans & Rural Things (SMART).
Punjabi Jooti has been taken up along with Mojari of Rajasthan for skill
up-gradation of artisans. In addition to skill up-gradation, assistance for
international marketing is being provided.
11.
Strengthening of FDDI Sub Centres-
The
facility spectrum has been upgraded to enable the sub-centers to play a
larger role in the whole developmental process of the industry. Under these
projects CAD/CAM facility has been provided in Chennai, Mumbai &
production facility has been provided at Bangalore Centre.
12. Artisan Skill Development-
FDDI
provided consultancy to KVIC for setting up of Common Facility Center for
upgradation skill
of
artisans at various places including, Ambala, Kalyani.
Artisans
Skill Development Programmes have been undertaken at Saharanpur &
Hazaribagh, after setting up of Common Facility Centers at both places.
Further,
skill upgradation has been undertaken at Saharanpur, Jaipur, Alwar etc. under
HRD Mission.
13.Research and development-
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Developed
special footwear for leprosy patients on request of Leprosy Mission, New
Delhi.
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