• One week duration
• Intended for Chief Executives/Managing Directors/Vice Presidents/General Managers/Factory Managers, etc.
• Conducted at places like Ooty, Kodaikanal, Munnar, etc.
• Topics of current interest and relevance to the textile industry are covered during this programme.

• 8 weeks duration
• For young executives and aspiring managers
• Conducted at SITRA
• Programme aims at equipping young executive to appreciate the nuances of various aspects involved in a textiles industry from fibre to garment and covers topics on technical, financial, marketing and HRD areas.

• 6 days (2 + 2 + 2) duration.
• Intended for personnel in Quality Control like QC incharge, QC officers, QC Investigators etc. in spinning mills.
• Covers all aspects of testing of fibre, yarn and fabric for their physical properties. Include both theoretical session which covers properties, interpretation of test data as well as hands-on experience on the testing instruments.

• 3 days duration.
• Intended for lab technicians/Quality Assurance officers and other QC personnel in processing units.
• Includes theoretical and practical sessions covering the various chemical properties and the impact of defects on the subsequent processes.

• 3 days duration.
• Intended for Q. C. Officers/Q.C.Incharge/Asst. Spg. Masters/Spg. Masters/Supervisors.
• Methodology involves technical sessions covering the salient
  aspects of quality control in textile mills

• 3 days duration.
• Intended for Purchase Officers/Spg. Masters in spinning mills and cotton dealers.
• Major topics include cotton commerce, cotton grading & classification and practicals on cotton testing on conventional and High Volume instruments.

• 3 days duration.
• Intended for Production Officers/Spg. Masters/Asst.Spg.Masters/ Supervisors.
• Aimed at helping participants appreciate the key aspects of cost control and highlights areas like productivity, work load & work assignment, yarn realisation and waste control, etc.

• 2 days duration
• For Factory Managers/ Spinning Masters/Finance Executives/
  Supervisors
• Held at SITRA
• Highlights topics like implementation of TOM in mills, Ouality
  Circles, prerequisites for TOM implementation, process and quality control under TOM, process benchmarking, ISO 9000 and TOM distinction, textile process reengineering, etc.

• 3 days duration.
• For Electrical Engineers/Prodn.and Maintenance Officers in textile mills.
• Focuses on the importance and the means of managing energy cost in textile mills. Major topics include power requirements in mills, norms for power consumption, energy conservation programmes, power consuming equipment and their control, energy audits etc.

• 2 days duration.
• For Maintenance personnel of textile mills.
• Topics include Practices & Procedures in maintenance, Maintenance audit, etc.

• 5 days duration.
• Administrative Officers/Personnel Officers/Costing Executives.
• Aimed at providing non-textile executives an appreciation of the various aspects involved in production covering all the critical areas like properties and cost of material, process control, quality control, productivity, etc.

• 5 days duration.
• For HRD Officers/Training Managers/Personnel Managers/ Production Officers.
• Programme aims at equipping all technical and non-technical personnel associated with training to effectively train their workers and manage the training needs of their organisation. Major topics covered include, Identification of training needs, training techniques, training evaluation etc.

• 3 days duration.
• Meant for Supervisors/Assistant Spinning Masters, Spinning
  Masters and Managers
• Programme aims at highlighting the quality requirements expected by the knitters and the rudiments of knitting and the problems there of.

• 2 days duration.
• For Spinning Masters/Prodn. Officers/Personnel Officers/ Administrative Officers.

Major topics include, work assignment concepts, assignments for Ring frames tenters and doffers, achievable efficiency in cone winding, staff and non-production operatives requirements etc.

• 2 days duration
• For Trade Union Leaders
• The objective of the programme is to provide an insight to the trade union leaders on work ethics, workers’ rights/duties and limitations, and also to educate them on various technical concepts in textile mills like labour/machine productivity, work load & work assignment, production calculations, balance sheet analysis etc.

• 3 days duration.
• Meant for Supervisors/Asst. Spg. Masters.
• Mainly aimed at enlightening the supervisory staff on the current developments in production, maintenance & quality control and
  to sensitise them on HR skills that are necessary for effective functioning in the unit. Common topics of relevance are covered
  during the three-day programme.

Other Functional programmes which are also offered on need-requirement basis include

• Spectrogram analysis and variance length curve
• Classimat faults
• Yarn quality from high tech spinning machinery
• Quality and process control in wet processing
• Principles and use of modern testing instruments
• Yarn clearers and on-line quality monitoring
• Effluent treatment – practices and problems
• Technical textiles
• HRD in textile mills

• for workers in various departments of a spinning mill namely, Blow room, Cards, Combers, Draw frames, Fly frames, Ring frames, Open End Spinning, Winding, Doubling frames, TFO, Reeling, Singeing and ancillary jobs like Doffing boys (Simplex / Spinning), Cleaning Gang.
• The programme is conceived with the objective of imparting skill at the work place, redu~e learning period, instill good habits of work and promote discipline among the workers. It is envisaged that an mproved work culture can be brought about in the mills which may be evident through the following direct benefits that would accrue to the mills:
• higher rates of production
• proper material handling
• improved quality of output
• less incidence of waste
• good house keeping
• fewer accidents
• less spoilage of materials
• three days duration (five days for new recruits) ideal worker strength in a single batch: 18
• offered in a choice of 5 languages (Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam & Hindi) as per the requirement of mills

• Intended for jobbers in all departments.
• with the primary objective of creating an awareness amongst jobbers – a fast disappearing position in spinning mills – the importance of proper planning, productivity, quality, maintenance, cost reduction, material handling, waste control etc., and to enable them to get a clear understanding of their redefined roles and functions, and sharpening their skills to fulfil the aspired roles.
• three days duration.

Maintaining a Staff Inventory requires mills taking stock of the existing talent in their unit and also anticipate the numbers required for any further expansions. The inventory also helps managements to take crucial decisions for assignment of the right workmen for individual tasks based on their capabilities.

In order to help mills to either create or update such a database, this service by SITRA provides a comprehensive analysis of the workmen’s Aptitude, Skill and Attitude by studying their capability to do textile related jobs, assess their elemental timings for carrying out various operations and evaluate their commitment/attitude towards jobs/organisation. A comprehensive report is provided to mills covering the above areas.

Great attention has to be paid to the process of selecting operatives to ensure ‘best fit’ between job requirements on the one hand and the operatives’ personal qualification on the other. Faulty judgement can have a far reaching impact on the mill’s functioning by adversely affecting its labour productivity, waste level, quality of product etc. The need for using such scientific methods of selection has become necessary because the small margin of error that creeps into any process is minimised, which in turn ensures that only individuals who will, by and large, perform efficiently are selected. Moreover, the cost of subsequent training and development also gets reduced significantly by having workers with right aptitude to work.

SITRA offers its service to scientifically recruit the right workers for specific jobs in textile mills using various scientific methods of selection.

SITRA’s Aptitude Tests are exclusively designed to meet the specific requirements of assessing the ability or aptitude of employees to do the expected activities in various departments of textile mills.

The Aptitude Test measure whether an individual has the capacity or latent ability to learn and perform a given job if adequate training is provided. The Aptitude Test kit consists of 3 sub tests namely, Rate of Manipulation Board, Finger Dexterity and Nail Stick test along with Isihara’s colour blindness test which enables screeing of persons with suspected colour blindness.

A new version of multimedia training materials, in DVD format, for the benefit of spinning mill operatives has been released by SITRA. DVD serve as a handy tool for spinning mills to educate operatives on the right ways and means of working in spinning mills available to users in 5 languages namely, Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada and Hindi. An English version of DVD is also available separately.