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RAY-JUVENATE ARAYMOND INDIA INTERNAL MAGAZINE - APRIL TO JUNE 2021 Commitment leads to Success \"TOTAL COMMITMENT IS THE COMMON DENOMINATOR AMONG ALL SUCCESSFULL MEN AND WOMEN\" - DR. APJ ABDUL KALAM

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1.From MD's Desk 2. Editorial 3.ATOMS Corner 4.ISO 27001 Certification for ARaymond India 5.Moral Story 6.Article: Commitment Leads to Success 7.World Environment Day at ARaymond 8.COVID 19 Vaccination Drive at ARaymond 9.CSR Activities at ARaymond 10.Creative Minds at ARaymond 11.Newly Weds and Parents of New Born 12.Short Story RAY-JUVENATE | PAGE 2

From MD's Desk Dear Colleagues, Theme of this Quarter’s Rayjuvenate is Happy Holi, hope you all enjoyed festival of “Dialogue – Let's Exchange”. Dialogue is very Holi with your family. important part of our business, as this is first I wish you and your family good health and step towards our value of Collaboration. safety. Considering current time, our safety Dialogue and the way to make Dialogue is is critical from COVID Virus. And this we can very important, I am sure the same you will attain only by following guidelines shared by learn in this magazine. Rayjuvenate is also our Task Force. As COVID cases are going up helping me to have dialogue with each one of drastically in our country, we need to be you!!! cautious and ensure we and our family are safe and secure. We should not take any I was recalling April 2020, same time of last steps which can put health of ourselves, our year, we were all at home due to severe lock family or our colleagues in risk. down in our country. This lock down was essential to keep us away from this contagious disease. All our efforts paid well and due to severe lock down and after lock down strict implementation of COVID guidelines we managed to ensure least effect as compared to communities around us. I appreciate your efforts and request you to not to give up on COVID guidelines, this is essential for our country to win over this Virus. Our small efforts will help our Country. RAY-JUVENATE | PAGE 3

Our markets are helping our growth in Q1, Situation seems to be same in Q2 as well. and our additional business in automotive The real challenge in coming months is Raw and Industrial market helped us to grow Material shortages due to very high demand significantly in these markets. We have globally. We will have to manage our achieved highest turnover in Q1 2021. customer production in this challenging time. During Q1 we successfully cleared We all need to ensure we use our raw ISO27000 Audit. We expanded our Chennai material wisely, by reducing waste and plant to receive more molding machines. ensuring smart usage of RM. In Q2 we will also plan to move Quick Connector According to Wikipedia, there are two machines to new building in Pune and at the slightly different meanings of safety. For same time we want to start Quick example, home safety may indicate a Connectors assembly in our Chennai Plant. building's ability to protect against external I wish you again good safety and health. harm events (such as weather, home Once again, I request you to take all invasion, etc.), or may indicate that its precautionary measures and follow COVID internal installations (such as appliances, guidelines to help us avoid this contagious stairs, etc.) are safe (not dangerous or virus at any cost. harmful) for its inhabitants. Jai Hind, Manish RAY-JUVENATE | PAGE 4

Editorial Recently ARaymond India experienced the Despite of the odd shape of the plot like a great importance of Commitment and Polygon i.e. multiple vertexes where we had resulted success in the form of our new QC challenges to design building with multiple building. We all can see this beautiful new brainstorming sessions with Architect, PMC building in our premises, a sign of not only of & ARaymond’s internal CFT, the most our expansion or progress but also sign of our effective plant layout was designed, consistent efforts and commitment towards considering flow of material & people, which our stakeholders and fulfilment of our is in line with ATOMS. promises to all the stakeholders. The next challenge was about completing the We had experienced lots of hurdles and lots entire project in targeted year of 2020 of challenges starting from acquisition of the however due to Global hit of Pandemic entire land from MIDC till utilization of constructed Construction Industry across India got badly new building. After getting out of issues affected due to scarcity of Migrant Labors & involved in acquisition of land and completing multiple lockdowns caused acute the acquisition process, we had to address all construction shortage of the construction challenges related with development of land material also. ARaymond team along with our and construction of the Building. suppliers, contractors, developing contractor jointly put in our hard efforts for not letting the work hamper. RAY-JUVENATE | PAGE 5

Commitment is what transforms a Promise into reality . – Abraham Lincoln We worked on resources and also keeping Despite of all these challenges, our safety of labor in mind, we had many commitment toward our stakeholders were our motivational, informative training sessions for inspiration to keep on going and overcome all all staff working at site to keep their moral high. the hurdles and challenges and taught us lot of Respecting all rules & regulations set by lessons for lifetime. The building is ready now Government, like Testing against COVID, and we have successfully completed shifting of Quarantine period for people travelling from our plant equipment as per our plan and the other cities, social distancing, and treatment same is operational now. for COVID positive patients, we could sail through this turbulent time. Commitment SUCCESS Hardwork In nutshell this entire story of QC building, from start to end is a well established experience for all of us that commitment definitely leads to success. We in ARaymond believe on this thought strongly and also try our best to contribute our best possible efforts to honour our commitments in any situation. RAY-JUVENATE | PAGE 6

ATOMS Corner Flow Management: Key Components of Flow Management In continuation to our last article which was written on “Process Optimization” we are now Rigorous disciplines. coming up with next Enabling element of Cells, Pull, Supermarkets, Kanban, Theory of ATOMS which is “Flow Management” through Constraints. our ATOMS Arena. Demand Management. Flow Management: Sales & Operation Planning, Master Production Schedule, Manufacturing Resources Planning, Flow Management strives to have materials and Leveling (Heijunka), Takt (Rhythm). information flowing collaboratively and smoothly, in a leveled way, like a stream, rather Inventory and batch size reduction. than operating as islands. Flexibility (SMED). The organization continuously focuses on lead- Value Stream Mapping. time reduction by eliminating all non-value- A graphic description of a value stream (in plant creating activities (waste) among internal or as well as in offices) that starts and ends with external suppliers and producers that the customer. collaboratively deliver a product or service. Information and materials flow to the demand of the customer; all supply stream activities are triggered when customer signal the need. Objective of Flow Management: The goal is to deliver the highest value to the internal and external customers in the shortest time (lead-time reduction) and at the lowest total cost (waste reduction). Reduce batch processing of materials and information to deliver only what is required, when it is required RAY-JUVENATE | PAGE 7

Let’s start with one of the Key component of Flow Management that is VSM (Value Stream Mapping) Value-stream mapping, also known as \"material- and information-flow mapping\", is a lean- management method for analyzing the current state and designing a future state for the series of events that take a product or service from the beginning of the specific process until it reaches the customer How to Draw a VSM 1.Determine the scope of your value stream map. Create your start and end points first, and place them in the top left and right corners of your document. ... 2.Map the steps of your process. ... 3.Add inventory and wait times. ... 4.Designate the direction of information flows. ... 5.Create a timeline Benefits of a value stream map ·Identify waste. ·Identify bottlenecks. ·Make processes efficient. ·Improve cross-functional collaboration. ·Improve end-product quality. RAY-JUVENATE | PAGE 8

ATOMS ARENA ATOMS ACTIVITY ZONE – Q2 Through Arise we invite valuable suggestions from every employee and in return to your contribution you receive appreciation through Recognition scheme. ARISE Recognition RAY-JUVENATE | PAGE 9

ATOMS Quiz Winners Training on Abnormality Handling ATOMS Quality Recognition RAY-JUVENATE | PAGE 10

ARaymond India receives ISO 27001 Certification ISO27001:2013 International Standard Safety is the condition of a “steady state” of an specifies the requirements for establishing, organisation or place doing what it is supposed implementing, maintaining and continually to do. “What it is supposed to do” is defined in improving an information security management terms of public codes and standards, associated system within the context of the organization. architectural and engineering designs, This International Standard also includes corporate vision and mission statements, and requirements for the assessment and treatment operational plans and personnel policies. For of information security risks tailored to the any organisation, place, or function, large or needs of the organization. The requirements set small, safety is a normative concept. It complies out in this International Standard are generic with situation-specific definitions of what is and are intended to be applicable to all expected and acceptable.  organizations, regardless of type, size or nature. Using this definition, protection from a home’s external threats and protection from its internal structural and equipment failures (see Meanings, above) are not two types of safety but rather two aspects of a home’s steady state. Security is the process or means, physical or human, of delaying, preventing, and otherwise protecting against external or internal, defects, dangers, loss, criminals, and other individuals or actions that threaten, hinder or destroy an organisations “steady state,” and deprive it of its intended purpose for being. Using this generic definition of safety it is possible to specify the elements of a security program. RAY-JUVENATE | PAGE 11

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Moral Story Throughout every person’s life, an individual may have one, or many goals, that they set for themselves. There are many kinds of goals. Whether they are short term, long term or just temporary, the important thing is that we stay consistent, focused and keep our eyes on the goal. There are times when attaining a goal may be easy or other times when it seems like a goal is far, far away and we will never be able to reach it but if we don’t lose heart and keep working hard, a goal can be accomplished. Today’s story is a great example of a person who learned from her weakness, became a stronger, more determined individual and met her goal. When she looked ahead, Florence Chadwick saw nothing but a solid wall of fog. Her body was numb. She had been swimming for nearly sixteen hours. Already she was the first woman to swim the English Channel in both directions. She had managed to finish that swim in a record time, 16 hours and 22 minutes on August 8, 1950. Now, at age 34, her goal was to become the first woman to swim from Catalina Island to Palos Verde on the California coast. RAY-JUVENATE | PAGE 13

Her body was They urged her not to quit. She never had . . . numb. until then. With only a half mile to go, she asked She had been to be pulled out. Still thawing her chilled body swimming for several hours later, she told a reporter, “Look, nearly sixteen I’m not excusing myself, but if I could have seen hours! the land I might have made it.” It was not fatigue or even the cold water that defeated her. It was On that Fourth of July morning in 1952, the sea the fog. She was unable to see her goal. Two was like an ice bath and the fog was so dense months later, she tried again. This time, despite she could hardly see her support boats. Sharks the same dense fog, she swam with her faith cruised toward her lone figure, only to be intact and her goal clearly pictured in her mind. driven away by rifle shots. Against the frigid She knew that somewhere behind that fog was grip of the sea, she struggled on – hour after land and this time she made it! Florence hour – while millions watched on national Chadwick became the first woman to swim the television. Catalina, eclipsing the men’s record by two hours! Alongside Florence in one of the boats, her mother and her trainer offered encouragement. They told her it wasn’t much farther. But all she could see was fog. They urged her not to quit. She never had . . . until then. With only a half mile to go, she asked to be pulled out. Moral: “There’s a difference between interest and commitment. When you’re interested in doing something, you do it only when circumstance permit. When you’re committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results.” RAY-JUVENATE | PAGE 14

Commitment leads to success There is no question about it. Only you are in How Committed Are You? charge of your own career. Not your boss, not your colleagues, not your family members. It all Commitment towards your career is the act of comes down to you and the overall approach having a true passion for what it is you do, the you have towards your career. The decisions organization you work for and a fierce desire to you make and the actions you display will better yourself each and every day you show up ultimately decide your success or failure. How for work. A great way to establish career bad do you want it? Are you committed to being commitment and continuous improvement is to that successful manager, that distinct leader, set daily goals for yourself. This gives you the next best marketing executive or that purpose, drive, ambition and something to reach finance officer you dream about? If you dream for on a daily basis. Your daily goals should be of being a successful business executive, then actionable and attainable in nature, so that at you must be committed to your trade. the end of the day, you feel accomplished and Commitment leads to career ownership and can experience that feeling of success. Whether career ownership leads to success. So how do it is developing one new creative idea or you get there? spending extra time listening and learning from those below you or above you, commit to your Taking Initiative: role and commit to becoming better than you were yesterday. The level of commitment you No one will ever fault you for taking the extra display towards your job ultimately establishes steps to accomplish your goals or the goals of the impression that those around you have of your organization. Taking initiative means you and your work ethic. You dream about that stepping up to the plate when no one else will big promotion and how life-changing it will be, and making something great happen. The best but are you willing to commit to what it takes to colleagues that I have had the pleasure to work get there? Once there, are you committing with possess an innate ability to see beyond the yourself to hang on to it? job description and what they are directed to do, ultimately producing programs, initiatives and RAY-JUVENATE | PAGE 15 results that improve their organization and its business goals in a positive way, without having been told to do so. Take the initiative to show others that you are just as invested in the organization as they are; that you are not afraid to go the extra mile with them in an effort to achieve a common goal. Competition and the need for quality talent in today’s business world is fierce. If you don’t take the initiative to differentiate yourself among this competition, you will be left behind.

Self-Awareness Ownership Ultimately Leads Whether you are leading a team of 100 or part to Success! of a team of 100, your actions speak louder than words. Are you self-aware enough to Whether you are just starting out your career in understand the specific approach you take an entry-level position or you are a seasoned towards your job and the work ethic you extend executive, taking personal “ownership” of your has a direct effect on becoming that future role will result in huge wins for yourself leader you inspire to be? Are you self-aware throughout your career. Taking ownership enough to know your strengths and weaknesses, means being the CEO of your job description and how your weaknesses will only keep you and establishing for yourself a personal and from succeeding if you don’t seek out the advice specific strategy of how you intend to achieve and direction of others? Being self-aware is success in your role. acknowledging that you may not always have the right answers but are willing to do whatever It is about investing time, effort and personal it takes to obtain them and learn from them. It is leadership into your specific role, regardless of possessing a true understanding of your job how big or small it may be within your description, your title and your significance organization. within your organization, thus accepting the role Ownership shows others that you care about and responsibility that come with that. If you what you do and the results that you produce. It think you know the answer to those questions, shows others that you seek success for yourself then show some sense of humility by asking and your career and are setting yourself apart those around you about your work performance from others. Ownership means delivering or leadership style. Be open to the feedback you continuous improvement within your role, as receive. While it may feel uncomfortable at the opposed to being complacent and sticking to beginning, you are gaining the additional the status quo, just because that is what was knowledge and the respect of others that will done in the past. ultimately pave your way towards future success. Self-awareness ultimately determines End Goal in Mind whether or not those around you will follow you or flee from you. Achieving career success through commitment and ownership is always having the end goal in mind. Whether they are your personal career goals or the goals of the organization you work for (or both), committing yourself to your job and taking personal ownership of your role will get you that much closer to success. By having the end goal in mind, and taking on the personal investment to get there, you are essentially creating the ultimate career road map. RAY-JUVENATE | PAGE 16

World Environment Day at ARaymond We have done tree plantation at new QC building on the occasion of World Environment Day 5th June 2021. Employees including management have participated in this program & we have done tree plantation of around 453 trees. Thanks for all the employees for their cooperation & management also for taking care of the nature. RAY-JUVENATE | PAGE 17

COVID 19 Vaccination Drive at ARaymond We have successfully conducted COVID 19 vaccination drive for all employees including housekeeping, security, canteen & drivers on 22nd June at ARaymond Chakan plant by Aditya Birla hospital. All the employees were called slot wise considering social distance & all the precautions for COVID at Gurukul. Thanks for all the employees for their cooperation for conducting this drive & management also for taking care of the employees in this pandemic situation. RAY-JUVENATE | PAGE 18

CSR Activities at ARaymond 1) Contribution to “Mission Vayu” In the month of April,2021 when demand for Oxygen and ventilators were skyrocketing, due to surge in COVID cases in Maharashtra, MCCIA initiated ‘Mission Vayu’ on its Pune Platform for COVID Response (PPCR). ARaymond was also part of this mission and donated funds to facilitate buying Oxygen generating equipment and utilization of the same for needy hospitals through MCCIA. The donated funds utilized for such hospitals or medical facilities which were in need of such equipment and are actively engaged selflessly as MCCIA in supporting COVID victims. 2) Contribution to “Mission Oxygen”– In the month of May,2021, scarcity of Oxygen and ventilators got aggravated and in that situation, Indo French Chamber of Commerce of India (IFCCI ), in co-ordination with French Government launched “Mission Oxygen” In coordination with IFCCI & CARE ARaymond donated its CSR funds for the Mission. Novair Medicals was the sourcing Partner and the fund donated by ARaymond were utilized for Purchasing, installation, maintenance and utilization of Oxygen Generator Plants in India. RAY-JUVENATE | PAGE 19

3) Donation of 5L Oxygen Concentrators In the month of May again we had initiated purchasing Oxygen concentrator, to be provided to the needy hospitals. With the quick and great support from our French & Chinese Colleagues, we could donate 10 Oxygen Concentrator procured from outside India, to needy hospitals viz. Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel Containment Hospital, RSS Jana Kalyan COVID Care Center, Saileela Hospital and other hospital in Delhi & Chennai. The highlight of this activity is that, in this entire chain of procurement of Oxygen Concentrator and delivery, all the involved stakeholders acted generously and with pure view of Charity and therefore all the equipment acquired free of cost, demonstrating our great team work for charity. 4) Help to COVID Centre, Khalad In the month of June, 2021 we undertook one more activity focusing our support in COVID care activity, of donating the medicines and essential COVID safety kits and article for COVID- patients quarantined in village called Khalad in Pune. The COVID Care Center is called as “Anandi Jumbo COVID Care Center’ in Purandar District. The Center has facility of 150 beds for isolation purpose specially for those who need support but can not afford to pay for it in other manner. COVID safety kits and consumable things & articles such as PPE Kits for Front line workers and Doctors, Face shield, Oximeter, Thermometer, Hand gloves, Bedsheets, medicine, etc. were provided for the patients in isolation and also for Health care staff and Frontline workers in this center and some other facilities in the center. RAY-JUVENATE | PAGE 20

Creative Minds at ARaymond II समपण II न झुकंू गा न कुं गा चलतेचले जाऊं गा मं झलका दवाना ं सफरतय करते जाऊं गा II प रहो या काटे आगेबढता जाऊं गा हौसलाबुलंद ह मु क ले चुमता जाऊं गा II द पक ं एक अंधेरा चरते जाऊं गा मन क रोशनी ह उजाला करते जाऊं गा II असफलताका भय नही नःकष नकाले जाऊं गा श ा त मेरा वजय वज लहराऊं गा II न ड ं गा न सहमुंगा संघषकरते जाऊं गा समपणपूण येय को सफलता गले लगाऊं गा II THE SECRET THINGS TO DO BEHIND THIS TRAVEL IN THE MOUNTA-IVNilas Kasulkar How to travel with a small budget Discover places to explore, attractions  RAY-JUVENATE | PAGE 21

II रंग लाई II नही बनाया कसीने दौलतमदं , खदु ही बने है सब अपने सपनो के सौदागर I राह नही थी बनी बनाई, वो तो हमने खु सजाई, सब ने करी है बड़ी महे नत, फर वही है रगं लाई II एक पल म नह बनता सब कु छ, पल पल महे नत कर सब ने मं जल है पायी I कल या होगा ना यान दया, बस काम कया, राह म मशु कल सबके है आयी, फर वही है रगं लाई II मु कल था मं जल को पाना, बना दया रा ता, उस जीत को पाने का हमने कया वा ता I देखा है सबने मं जल म या होता है खना जदगी उसी सफ़लता क मोड पर आयी, महे नत फर रगं लाई II - Sayali Musale RAY-JUVENATE | PAGE 22

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Welcome Baby! Hugs and Kisses to the little one! RAY-JUVENATE | PAGE 27

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Short Story झेप घे दशा तुला शरण येईल *लता भगवान करे* वया या 65 ा वष मॅरॅथॉन, होय कानावर व ास बसणार नाही अशीच घटना. ही माऊली अफाट आ म व ासआ ण अतुलनीय ज चे जवंत उदाहरणं आहे. नव या या उपचारासाठ पै यांची गरज आ ण हलाक चीआ थक प र तथी. माग काढ याची ज एवढं च भांडवल. जे हा मॅरेथॉन धाव याचा नणय घेतला ते हा कु टुंबात या सद यांनी सु ा टगल के ली. आजूबाजू यांना हस याचा वषय झाला. अनेकांची फटकार सहन क न सु ा खचून न जाता ही माऊली अनवाणी पायानी धावली. येय एकच, काहीही झालेतरी प हला नंबर आला पा हजे, ब ीस मळाल पा हजे आ ण मळाले या ब ीसानेकु टुंबाची आ थक गरज पूण झाली पा हजे. सग या त ण धावणा यां मधे लुगडं घालून अनवाणी धावणारी हातारी म हला. असे साधारणपणे ीतन पडणारे च बघून श वाजवणारी गद . काय तथी असेल मनाची ते हा. पण ज कशाला हणतात हे सग या जगालादाखवून दे याचं उ उराशी घेऊन पंख पसरवूनआकाशाला गवसणी घाल याचा य न करणारी बारामती मॅरेथॉन वजेती ीमती लता भगवान करे आप या साठ आदश आहे. या माऊली ला सलाम! - Vilas Kasulkar RAY-JUVENATE | PAGE 29

A TEAM WORK BY 01. Mr. Amit Borkar 02. Mr. Amogh Soman 03. Ms. Mitra Parchure 04. Mr. Gururaj Gajendragad 05. Mr. Vinod Chavan 06. Mr. Saikumar Kavali 07. Mr. Jaykumar Kartheikeyan 08. Mr. Aabed Mulani 09. Mr. Aditya Joshi 10. Mr. Shreyas Deshmukh 11. Mr. Rahul Mali RAY-JUVENATE | PAGE 30

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