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Kiran Manohar Deshmukh  Big text Mr Kiran Deshmukh is a graduate in Metallurgical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology (Bombay), Mumbai. He has over 38 years of experience in automotive components manufacturing. He has worked in the areas of Manufacturing, Process Control, Design, Quality Assurance, Marketing and Research & Development. He recently retired from Sona Koyo Steering Systems Ltd., the company with which he has been since its inception. At the time of his retirement, he was Dy. Managing Director of the Company. Currently Mr Deshmukh heads Sona Group’s activity of skill development. He is Managing Director of Sona Skill Development Centre, Group’s new initiative of skilling people for manufacturing industries. In addition, he also advises the Group Companies in the areas of Quality Management and R&D. Mr. Deshmukh has spearheaded Sona-Koyo’s implementation of the Toyota Production System, TQM, and TPM. He has led the company to be the recipient of the Deming Prize in 2003 and the TPM Excellence Award in 2008. Mr. Deshmukh has been member of the CII’s Manufacturing Competitiveness Sub-Committee, Managing Board of the SAE-India Northern Section, and the ACMA ACT Advisory Board. As a member of the ACT Advisory Board, he was involved in upgrading quality management practices of member SME companies of ACMA through its Cluster Program. He currently supports the Visionary Leaders for Manufacturing Program (VLFM) as a Guide and faculty. VLFM was jointly launched by IIM (C), IIT (K), and IIT (M) in association with CII. It is supported by the Governments of India and Japan, and aims to create visionary leaders for the Indian manufacturing. In 2006, The Indian Society of Quality honored Mr. Deshmukh with the Ashoka Award for outstanding practice of quality management “by firstly making his company role model and then by leading and inspiring other organizations to start their journey in earnest with full vigor”. Mr. Deshmukh has presented a number of technical papers in seminars and conferences in the areas of Toyota Production System, JIT, Statistical Techniques, TPM and TQM. He also co-owns a number of patents in India and the US.