Monday, September 21, 2009

Google SMS channel

It is a easy way to communicate your upate of a blog or a new entry on Google groups by a SMS. trying out for this blog.cheers. Sachin

Thursday, August 20, 2009

Nandan Nilekani on India's future

TED brings out great though leaders to share their vision with world. Very few Indians have been featured on TED. I viewed Nandan Nilekani - ex CEO of Infosys and now driving the UID project for Govt of India articulating his vision of India.

It is a great to see a industry person joining Government and actually trying to use his vision beyond the compounds of his organization.


you can watch the TED speech here..

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

Monday, June 01, 2009

Making of Bakarwadi

 

We all love this stuff

Having established a brand identity for itself through the sheer range and quality of food products over the past five decades & more, Chitale Bandhu Mithaiwale has also kept pace with modern times in terms of product innovation, specialties and use of automated techniques in production & management.

The seeds of this automation in processes were sown in the period between 1950 and 1970 which saw the demand for products increasing at a tremendous pace. All small manufacturing processes had to be re-looked at and converted into large scale manufacturing processes with the help of machinery. Shri. N. B. Chitale, who toured Japan in 1970, was thoroughly impressed by the extent of mechanization there. He did all the groundwork and trials to improvise and adopt mechanization in the manufacturing of food products. Suitable machinery was finally located in Holland and thereafter began the process automation phase which today is state-of-the-art.

Bakarwadi’, which is perhaps the largest selling and most popular of its products, is now being manufactured on automated machine lines. Besides this, a few sweet items are also manufactured on machines imported from Japan. ‘Bakarwadi’ manufacturing process goes through all its stages in an automated environment. These stages are dough mixing – sheeting – masala spraying – chirling or rounding – frying – packing. Each of these stages of manufacture is carried out on automated machines or units. The end process stage of packing is done on a packing machine imported from Germany wherein the ‘Bakarwadi’ is packed under vacuum and nitrogen gas is flushed inside to improve the shelf life. Similar processes are used for various sweet items too.