Girish Shankar, Secretary, Department of Heavy Industry, Govt. of India, said "the Government is extensively promoting domestic manufacturing across key industrial corridors and we will further aim to solidify manufacturing ecosystem in India to boost domestic manufacturing by aligning our policies related to ease of doing business, FDI investment rules and infrastructure development to grow domestic manufacturing in India and raise its GDP contribution to 25 percent by 2025."

Parakramsinh G. Jadeja President, IMTMA said, "Companies are being constantly challenged to increase competitiveness in manufacturing to build a sustainable competitive advantage. With the growing adoption of digital manufacturing companies need to adopt a highly structured approach to manage innovation, while at the same time, not losing out on time to reach the markets. Summits like these are the key enablers to address learning and best practices requirements of manufacturing industry and raising its competitiveness. This is an apt platform to meet the evolving knowledge and skill requirements of overall manufacturing industry in India."

The two day summit had Live Case Study Presentations on some of the best practices in manufacturing by leading manufacturing companies.

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