To help the strategic drive of the organization, the Research and Development (R&D) department uses the latest research methods and engineering techniques to ensure the following:

• • Identify and develop new businesses through conducting market research
  • Demand forecasts and customer surveys for new businesses/products (up/down stream integration) in line with the vision and long term strategies of EMMC.
  • Provide necessary information for preparing full fledge economic feasibility studies.

Enhance the current business by:

• • Facilitating technology up-gradation by identifying industry benchmarks in manufacturing efficiencies and mapping EMMC practices against the benchmark.
  • Identifying the gaps and prioritize areas of immediate improvement. Processing re-engineering used to align EMMC Industry practices with industry best performances.
  • Improving the current process by identifying process capabilities and aligning support systems to match the process capabilities.
  • Coordinating closely with the Engineering department to ensure the following are successfully and continuously conducted and implemented.
    • Facilitating methods-improvement studies: Assist in identifying better methods through critical analysis & brainstorming for all the critical operations/processes with an overall objective of improving the productivity of all the resources.
    • Facilitating Line Balancing Exercises: This is done to identify shop floor bottlenecks and make recommendations for addition of machines and/or manpower to balance the line as and when needed.