Hughes Communications India to Provide
'Live' Satellite-Enabled Training Academy to
Maruti Suzuki
15 January 2012
Hughes
Communications India, Ltd. announced
that it is providing Maruti Suzuki, Ltd with
a digital training academy incorporating
satellite broadband technology to provide
"live" training across their distribution
chain including company factories and
offices, as well as key dealer outlets.
Hughes will provide the studio integration
at the Maruti Training Academy, classroom
integration at the regional training
offices, and set up the interactive delivery
platform through a high-powered Ku- band
satellite network. The training sessions
will be conducted from a centralised studio
at Maruti Suzuki's Gurgaon plant to over 30
locations across
India. Training programmes
will include technical, commercial, HR, and
product module sessions.
Training sessions
will be offered through the Hughes
Interactive Onsite Learning (IOL) platform
which seamlessly integrates the strengths
and advantages of the traditional method of
education with the latest in technology.
Using a very powerful interface, the
platform is easy to use, high quality and
integrates solutions that are usable across
heterogeneous networks. The platform allows
Maruti's trainers to have high quality,
interactive, real-time and two-way
engagement with dispersed participants
across the most remote locations
individually or simultaneously.
At the launch of
the Maruti Suzuki Training Academy,
S. Y. Siddiqui
, chief operating officer,
Maruti Suzuki, said "The idea of the Maruti
Suzuki Training Academy stems from the need
to have skilled manpower in all aspects of
our growing business. While colleagues
within Maruti Suzuki will benefit from this
academy, this facility is expected to bring
value to the entire value chain of our
operations. This academy will meet the need
for appropriate training for the existing
employees and will specifically orient new
employees to the contemporary manufacturing
culture."
"We were looking
for technology which is stable, proven and
scalable. We are happy to partner with HCIL
for such a critical project," said
Rajesh Uppal
, executive director of IT and CIO at
Maruti Suzuki.
Partho Bannerjee
, president and managing
director of HCIL, commented, "We're
looking forward to a long and successful
partnership with Maruti Suzuki. We're now
seeing many companies with large branch
networks take advantage of the Hughes
satellite broadband solution to create a
robust training infrastructure that spans
the entire distribution ecosystem from
employees to partners."
The Hughes
Interactive Onsite Learning platform
provides breakthrough solutions for
employee- friendly corporates like Maruti
for learning and development across even the
most remote locations since physical
classroom training and residential courses
are becoming difficult to manage, especially
when people are geographically dispersed.
