ZED Awareness Program
ZED Awareness Program

About ZED

Hon'ble Prime Minister has launched "Financial Support to MSMEs in ZED Certification Scheme" of Ministry of MSME, Government of India,at Ludhiana on 18th October, 2016 for inculcating Zero Defect Zero Effect (ZED)Manufacturing Practices among MSMEs. Quality Council of India (QCI) has been appointed as the National Monitoring & Implementation Unit (NMIU) for this scheme across the country.

ZED is a unique & holistic certification model for MSMEs, that will create awareness, assess, handhold and rate them, based on 50 well defined parameters of Production, Design, Quality, Safety, Environment etc., with special focus on the Defense sector. Each parameter has 5 levels of maturity where level 5 is bench-marked with world-class standards. The final score for rating is a weighted average of the performance of the MSME's manufacturing unit on each parameter leading to ZED ratings of Bronze, Silver, Gold, Diamond and Platinum.

Scheme Highlights

  • Develop an Ecosystem for Zero Defect Manufacturing in MSMEs.
  • Promote adaptation of Quality tools/systems and Energy Efficient manufacturing.
  • Enable MSMEs for manufacturing of quality products.
  • Encourage MSMEs to constantly upgrade their quality standards in products and processes.
  • Drive manufacturing with adoption of Zero Defect production processes and without impacting the environment.

Training Objective


  • To create proper awareness in MSMEs about ZED manufacturing and motivate them for assessment of their enterprise for ZED rating
  • To drive manufacturing with adoption of Zero Defect production processes without impacting the environment (Zero Effect)
  • To encourage MSMEs to constantly upgrade their quality standards in products and processes

"... I urge upon the youth, in particular our small entrepreneurs that they would never compromise, at least on two counts. First, ZERO DEFECT and second, ZERO EFFECT. We should manufacture goods in such a way that they carry zero defect; that our exported goods are never returned to us. We should manufacture goods with zero effect that they should not have a negative impact on the environment."

Hon'ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi

Upcoming Training

Date Venue
11th December Anna University TVS Centre for Quality Management Auditorium , Chennai Register

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