Skill India: Yamaha Motor’s new training centre officially opens its doors in Chennai

Leading Japanese two-wheeler manufacturer Yamaha Motor has opened a motor parts manufacturing and assembly training school in India. The opening ceremony of the institute named Yamaha Motor NTTF Training Centre (YNTC) was held last Friday, July 21, at the company’s Chennai plant operated by local subsidiary India Yamaha Motor (IMY). The initiative aims to impart Japanese style manufacturing skills covering areas: motorcycle assembly, parts control, paint, welding, casting aluminium machining and steel machining, quality control, and utility techniques.

The YNTC is the first-of-its-kind initiative by the Japan-India Institute for Manufacturing (JIM) and involves collaboration between the government of Japan, government of India, and Japanese companies to give further impetus to the 'Make in India' and 'Skill India' programmes.

Japan and India jointly aim to train as many as 30,000 Japanese standard shopfloor engineers over the next 10 years, and for that has introduced Japanese Endowed Courses (JEC) at India’s existing engineering colleges. All these courses focus on aluminium casting and welding, steel machining, parts control, paint, and assembly among other manufacturing methods.

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In its first session, YNTC has got on board 40 students, both male and female, aged between 18 to 21 years. Over the course of the four-year curriculum, they will be taught practical skills in various Japanese style manufacturing.