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Auto Monitor Vol. 11 No. 20
1-15 November 2011
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48 Pages
INTERVIEW “THERE IS A LONG WAY TO GO BEFORE WE REACH MARKET SATURATION”
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AUTOPINION DEVELOPING TRENDS IN THE INDIAN AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY
Harsha Kadam, Director, Two-Wheelers Business Unit-Global, SKF India Pg 8
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Smaller three-wheeler on cards: Atul Auto
Exports may outstrip domestic volumes for Bajaj
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ajaj Auto plans to renew its focus on the international markets. The company’s vehicle exports may outstrip domestic sales in the near future, according to MD, Bajaj Auto, Rajiv Bajaj. Currently, the overseas market contributes over 36 percent to its total vehicle sales, including two-wheelers and threewheelers. Also, it has its footprint in 50 countries and is looking at newer geographies. Regions like Latin America contributes around 20 percent of company’s international business, excluding Brazil. Bajaj Auto is on track to meet the sales target of four million vehicles by the end of this fiscal (including exports). It has recently reported six percent growth in net income at `726 crore for the September quarter on revenue of `5,342 crore, which rose 21 percent as its sales volume grew 16 percent to 1,164,137 units. The lower numbers were primarily due to the `95-crore hit the company had to face on forex on valuation of forward contracts that were charged to the profit and loss account in this quarter.
DATA MONITOR Domestic Top 5 PV-makers Sector
Sep-10
Sep-11
Change
MSIL
95,148
78,816
-17.16%
HMIL
31,751
35,955
13.24%
TML
27,832
30,809
10.70%
M&M ^
17,537
22,189
26.53%
Toyota
6,235
12,807
105.40%
Domestic Top 5 2W-makers Sector
Sep-10
Sep-11
Change
HML
399,733
535,636
34.00%
BAL
230,945
255,786
10.76%
TVS
152,698
192,027
25.76%
HMSI
118,214
167,917
42.04%
IYM
24,133
32,637
35.24%
Domestic Top 5 CV-makers Sector
Sep-10
Sep-11
Change
TML
31,779
41,757
31.40%
M&M
9,255
10,677
15.36%
ALL
9,512
7,456
-21.61%
VECV Eicher
3,665
4,152
13.29%
FML
1,730
2,092
20.92%
* Source: SIAM/ ** Excluding exports/ *** all sub segments considered/ ^ excluding MRPL
Shambhavi Anand Rajkot
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fter the new light fourwheeler that it has been planning to launch for some time, the Rajkot based three-wheeler manufacturer, Atul Auto also plans a new threewheeler, which will be smaller than the existing models and will have both passenger and pick up models. “We think that there will be a huge demand for a product in the smaller three-wheeler segment and so we are working on it,” Chairman and Managing Director, Jayantibhai J Chandra said. The product, which is in the nascent stage of development, is being developed at the in-house research and development centre of the company based at Pune, which also houses testing facilities for prototypes and employs around 50 people. The new four-wheeler that it plans to launch will be in the one-tonne capacity in the class of Maxximo and Ace. The company sees this as a forward integration for themselves. It believes that the three-wheelers are shifting to Tier II and Tier III cities and
The shop floor (inset) Jayantibhai J Chandra
the chairman said, “We manufacture vehicles for common people, both in CNG and diesel range. Our new products will be on the similar line.” It manufactures the front engine vehicles with 500 kg payload known as Shakti while GEM, launcehd two years ago, has a rear engine. Atul, which is currently a `300 crore company, intends to reach a turnover target of `1,000 crore in the next three years. It hopes to achieve this huge leap by expanding its product portfolio, exploring export opportunities, entering new geographical regions within the national boundaries and also a few allied businesses in
four-wheelers are gaining more popularity in the bigger cities. The company has already bought land for a new plant in Ahmedabad and will be putting in an investment of `150-200 crore and the work will commence soon. The new three-wheeler and the four-wheeler will be manufactured in the newer plant. The capacity of its current plant is 24,000 units per annum. The company is enhancing the capacity by increasing the number of shifts to two on the vehicle assembling side and three on the paint shop side. Talking about venturing into the smaller segment in threewheeler as well as four-wheeler,
the same sector. The company has pinned high hopes from the smaller three-wheeler. Currently, the company exports its passenger as well as cargo vehicles to Bangladesh, Kenya and Sri Lanka, where it is in the seeding stage. It plans to export to other countries once it has created a hold on the current export markets. Atul is also exploring to have manufacturing facilities in Bangladesh. In India, the company has presence in 15 states and has just entered Assam. The South Indian market is handled from Maharashtra, while it has started operations in MP in October 2011. It plans to increase the number of dealerships from 115 to 140. Atul Auto is interested in acquiring Scooters India, a PSU, which has posted a loss of `22 crore in FY10. The cabinet has approved the divestment of government’s stake (95.38 percent) in the lossmaking company. According to Chandra, the company intends to invest in the technology and capacity. “Scooters India makes front-engine vehicles and we are also into the same. So, we think it will be a good combination,” he said.
Sanden Vikas makes light-weight HVAC Nabeel A Khan New Delhi
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aridabad-based automotive aircon manufacturer Sanden Vikas (SVL) is introducing low cost scroll compressors starting with Honda’s recently launched small car—Brio. The manufacturer is building a new plant to make the compressors at its Faridabad unit with an investment of around `35 crore. The production will commence by June 2012 with an annual capacity of three lakh units, which will meet the full requirements of Honda Brio. “We are bringing the latest scroll compressor technology to India. For the fi rst time, we have developed a low cost scroll compressor for the developing countries. At present, this technology is not produced from anywhere other than Japan by
Sanden.” Chairman, Sanden Vikas, Praveen Agarwal told Auto Monitor in an exclusive interaction. The company, a 50:50 JV between Sanden Corporation, Japan and Vikas Group will import the scroll compressors from Japan till the production at the new plant begins. Though the compressor was primarily developed to have the right kind of product for Brio. SVL is looking to sell this technology to other customers including Maruti Suzuki, which gives over 50 percent of total business to the aircon maker. Following the response from the OEMs it will ramp up the production. SVL has developed mini-truck refrigeration with limited organised sector presence. It hopes to formally launch them by the end of 2012. It has introduced innovative technologies to reduce cost
Photograph: Dileep Prakash
NEWS IN BRIEF
Praveen Agarwal, Chairman, Sanden Vikas
and weight of products besides resulting in productivity increase upto 300 percent in the last three years. The company’s HVAC system currently weighs around five kg against eight kg earlier. The weight reduction was achieved by optimising the material thickness from about three mm to 1.5 mm without affecting the quality. It replaced
the central duct with plastic mould from fi bre glass. It has also trimmed down the material thickness of condenser from 18 mm to 16 mm and replaced compressor’s port cover bolt with plastics thus reducing the weight of the bolt from 140 gm to 14 gm. It has successfully reduced the weight of AC pipes among other light weighting measures. On the manufacturing side, the company has introduced two new six-axis robots for pipe bending, which cost `90 lakh each. This has increased productivity by three times while occupying only one third of the space. The continuous efforts enabled the company to bag the coveted Deming prize for the year 2011. The company ended FY11 with sales of around `500 crore hopes to touch a turnover of `650 crore in FY12.
EDITORIAL Drive the change
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ndia being the second largest populated country in the world should not have employment problems, at least in the not-so-highly-skilled categories. However, there are few segments including the truck driver community that are still facing employment issues. The small commercial vehicle segment that has caught the fancy of the CV market in the last two to three years, could have witnessed at least 15 percent more sales had drivers been available adequately. Currently, more than six lakh MHCVs ply in the country and the numbers will only go north with the road infrastructure improving and the burgeoning demand to move goods to different corners of the country. The government is adding more than 30 km per day to the existing road length of about 66,000 km of the National Highway network. In addition, the country has over 1.3 lakh km of state highways and about 3.14 million km of other roads. The increasing road infrastructure and the meek railway network expansion plans has snowballed the demand for all kinds of CVs, which will eventually fuel the demand for drivers further. According to last year’s estimate, the country has over 31 lakh drivers with close to two-thirds behind the wheels of MHCV—transporting over 3,200 million tonne per year and 61 million passengers per day. The question is how many drivers have had adequate training before getting into this profession? According to Crime Records Bureau, more than a lakh of people die from road accidents every year resulting in a material loss of `60,000 crore per year. And close to 80 percent of the accidents are due to negligence of the driver. Diesel accounts for 40 percent of the total petroleum products and trucks consume about 40 percent of it. About ten percent of the fuel is wasted due to poor driving habits, which results in a huge loss to the economy. Also, about 61 million tonne of diesel was consumed in fiscal 2011 in India against 41 million tonne in 2005. With heavy subsidies being made available for the fuel, this preventable loss directly impacts the exchequer while also contributing to the greenhouse effect.
If the driver is properly trained, accidents can be reduced and material loss could be minimised. A recent study by a research agency states that it is necessary to add about 1.85 lakh MHCV drivers every year from the year 2015 onwards to meet the demand. Currently, an estimated 50,000 to 60,000 drivers have been taking up heavy vehicles each year. Already 10 and 15 percent of MHCVs are idle for want of drivers and if the situation continues, the demand will be skyrocketing in the next five years. Well, what are the impediments for the driver community to be developed? Firstly, the driver community is looked down upon by the society and is attached with several anti-social stigmas. Secondly, the driver community per se is shrinking as the next generation is not embracing this profession. Thirdly, in spite of the fact that an MHCV driver gets around `20,000 as monthly salary in addition to other perquisites, this segment is not able attract human resources. Quite a few fleet operators from different locations of the country have confi rmed that they are mulling options to stall their fleet expansion plans for want of drivers. To address the issue, it is necessary to create excitement for truck driving as a viable career option, which can be done collectively by all the stakeholders including the government, the vehicle manufacturers and fleet operators. Accelerate the change process.
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FORTNIGHT’S QUOTES HW Park, Managing Director, Hyundai Motor India at the Eon launch
John Krafcik, President and CEO, Hyundai Motor America on the US auto market
“The Eon is not pitted against the Alto. We are setting new benchmarks with this offering.”
“I think the American consumer feels like we’re still in a recession. It doesn’t matter if we are or we aren’t, that’s how they feel.”
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Taking care of the planet so the planet can take care of us.
Consumers are becoming more and more concerned about the environment and the effect of vehicles on it. So are vehicle manufacturers. As the focus on environmental responsibility increases throughout the world, greener technologies are driving vehicle manufacturers’ portfolios. And, Delphi is taking the development of environmentally friendly products seriously. For Delphi, this is a longstanding commitment. Recognizing and responding to this challenge early in the 1990s, Delphi played a critical role in the development and manufacture of the major electronic and electrical components for the first modern electric vehicle, the EV1. That work built on Delphi’s experience in powertrain electrification that dates back to the late 1960s and the design of the first Lunar Rover. Delphi engineers are still creating the electronics-based energy systems needed to power hybrid and electric vehicles plus the charging systems to keep them going. Using their deep expertise, they are bringing cost down on hybrid-specific components so that green vehicles can be affordable for more people.
From hybrid electric vehicle controllers to a self-contained hybrid power box b system, Delphi experts continue to forge new ground in vehicle eelectrification. Their breakthrough power switch and cooling designs a are infused with patented technology that helps vehicle components o operate more efficiently and cost-effectively. And, Delphi’s integrated iinverter, t DC/DC converter and controller offers vehicle manufacturers the convenience of power electronics integrated in a single package a highvalue power solution for mild hybrid vehicles. And Delphi offers a user-friendly, UL-listed charging station to enable safe and efficient electric vehicle battery charging. The charger end mates the charge port coupler to a vehicle inlet, allowing for fast, convenient vehicle charging. Delphi considers environmental impact before, during and after a vehicle’s life. Responsible operating policies globally have saved enough electricity to power cities while conserving tons of coal and natural gas. Delphi’s Heat and Mass Exchanger (HMX) systems are built without copper, use no refrigerants and eliminate the compressor typically found in cooling systems. Vehicle components such as ultra light receivers and aluminum wiring reduce weight and copper consumption. Organic LEDs do the same job as traditional flat-panel displays but reduce environmental impact both during the manufacturing process and after a vehicle’s useful life. And, with the convergence of multiple processors into a unified vehicle computer, the total number of microprocessors per vehicle can be reduced. All because environmental responsibility is not only the right thing to do, it’s good for business. Greener thinking. Delphi’s gasoline direct injection enables downsizing and turbo charging, a key strategy for reducing fuel consumption and meeting future emissions standards. Our new ignition and valve train systems and our low energy brushless fuel pumps contribute to CO2 reduction. Our hybrid evaporative emissions canister helps reduce smog-forming vapors. And Delphi’s gasoline fuel systems are compatible with ethanol and CNG, which also reduce CO2 emissions. For diesels, Delphi offers an extremely fast actuating servo-solenoid common rail system to help meet stringent emissions standards. It’s an excellent value in the industry, too. And we recently introduced the first ammonia and particulate matter sensors for the automotive industry. And Delphi gasoline and diesel engine management systems can be seamlessly integrated with hybrid vehicle architectures to optimize the overall fuel economy and emissions benefits of the HEV. Plus, we offer a solid oxide fuel cell auxiliary power unit and alternative refrigerant HVAC technology. A greener world. Delphi is also applying its expertise to other energy initiatives. To speed adoption, Delphi is collaborating with vehicle manufacturers and technology leaders to create and deploy green technologies and standards. We believe that by joining forces, we can bring components online faster, more cost-effectively, and to a much wider audience than we could by working independently. To see more ways Delphi is advancing green technologies to help make the world better and cleaner go to delphi.com/green.
CONTENTS CORPORATE Tata 407 completes quarter century in production
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Tata 407 competed 25 years in production, making it one of the longest serving vehicle models in production globally and clocking 500,000 units till date
TVS & Sons looks at leased premises to expand capacity
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TV Sundram Iyengar & Sons is looking at leased and rented premises to increase the number of service centres due to skyrocketing real estate prices
GLOBAL WATCH 12
Lanxess strengthens commitment to Brazilian auto sector
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Lanxess is strengthening its commitment to Brazil with three new investments totaling around Euro 30 million
Bosch marks 125 years; to invest Euro 50 million
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Bosch is set to celebrate 125 years of its existence by staging roughly 850 activities worldwide in 2011 to mark the 125th anniversary of the company
Continental to invest $500 mn for tyre facility in North America
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Continental is planning to set up a new tyre plant in Sumter, South Carolina to meet growing demand from both the retail and automotive manufacturers
Suits against auto parts suppliers
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Three class-action lawsuits have been filed against several auto suppliers alleging conspiracy to fix and artificially raise the prices of wire harness systems
Achates to make inroads in CV segment
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THE OTHER SIDE
Achates Power is looking to penetrate the CV makers as the segment provides much better showcase for the effectiveness of the company’s value preposition
Beda Flow bullish on growth potential
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Beda Flow Systems expecting a huge growth in the sales revenue on the back of growing demand for these products coming from automotive testing benches
Future LabVIEWs to accelerate innovative design, prototyping
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NIDays 2011 has prompted participants to look at options to improve the local engineering talent to come up more rapidly with prototypes using graphical systems design
Delux to power bearings in PV segment
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Delux Bearings is looking to strengthen its presence in the passenger car segment with an investment of around `20 crore in new capacity in Gujarat
Rane TRW Steering wins quality recognition
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Rane TRW Steering System has bagged the Japan Quality Medal from the Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineers
Bose joined Siemens in 2009 and has led as the head of Indian operations to reassert customer innovation, thought leadership and business execution
of the fortnight
GT 650R launched at `4.4 lakh Garware Motors recently launched the second variant of Hyosung GT 650R—the GT 650N at `4.4 lakh (ex-showroom New Delhi). The bike weighs around 208 kg and is powered by twin cylinder DOHC 8 valve water cooled engine with electronic fuel injection system. The 647 cc bike provides a power output of 72.68 BHP. The latest variant is available in three colours: red, black and white. Garware Motors, a wholly owned subsidiary of Garware Bestretch, has a partnership with S&T Motors, South Korea, manufacturers of the Hyosung brand—a brand which has earned a reputation amongst the global biking fraternity. The brand has gained excellent acceptance in the US, South America, UK, Australia as well as many Asian countries.
Diya Garware, MD, Garware Motors on GT 650 N
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INTERVIEW
“There is a long way to go before we reach market saturation” SKF India is hoping to maintain its leadership position in the two-wheelers business and is in the process of shaping its technical centre in Bangalore as the centre of excellence. In an interaction with Auto Monitor, Director, Two-Wheelers Business Unit-Global, SKF India, Harsha Kadam emphasised on the need for innovation in materials technology and operational flexibility in the two-wheeler segment. Abhishek Parekh What is the current scenario in the automotive sector? SKF India supplies to all the two-wheeler manufacturers in India given its global associations with leading OEMs as well as market leadership in the bearings business build up over the years. Our development centre in Bangalore has been instrumental in helping us develop new and often customised products for customers. The two-wheeler business contributes close to 42 percent of the total revenues for SKF in India. Though ball bearings have been the main product line for us, we have been trying to identify customer needs and develop sub-assemblies and systems. Customers prefer having fewer but reliable suppliers and we are looking for ways to increase customer engagement and that could imply offering much more than bearings. What products are currently offered as sub-assemblies and what are the plans for increasing the product basket? We are looking to offer a range of solutions surrounding bearings. We are increasingly looking at more and more elec-
tronics integrated into a vehicle and most of the OEMs are looking to cut down the weight of the bearings towards increasing fuel efficiency and making more intelligent and safer vehicles. This can potentially bring forth interesting and lucrative opportunities for our business. We are currently working on some products that can be part of sub-assemblies or as value-added products. More opportunities will unfold as we have deeper engagement with our customers. Does the two-wheeler segment hold much relevance in terms of volumes and innovations with growing prosperity and preference for four-wheelers? Most of the growth for twowheeler manufacturers is coming from smaller towns and cities. Two-wheelers would continue to be the preferred mode of personal mobility. Even though we are seeing a slowdown in passenger vehicles segment, the two-wheeler segment is continuing to grow at a healthy 15 percent plus growth rate. Already we are seeing more 110 cc bikes being manufactured in the country than 100 cc, over the last two to three years and this points to the direction in which the segment is
headed. From our perspective, it does not make a major difference upto 250 cc or higher powered bikes. We continue to remain very positive on the growth of the twowheeler segment. We still have a long way to go in terms of market saturation in the two-wheeler segment as vehicle density (for two-wheelers) is around 80 units for every 1,000 people as opposed to around 400 units per 1,000 people in Indonesia and Thailand. What role is SKF India’s two-wheeler division playing in the global context? How do you see the current role evolving? Exports and imports of bearings and many other auto component products are significantly affected by the duty structures prevailing in various markets and how it can affect our competitiveness. That said, the Bangalore centre is working on cutting-edge technologies and applications for SKF globally and even for its local and global customers. Without doubt, it helps to manufacture locally in any market from the cost and distribution perspective. We will look at opportunities for local manufacturing in the ASEAN region and local manufacturing will be a priority for us rather than large scale movement of products into or outside a particular region or country. What are the major concern areas for you currently and going forward? Rising input cost or raw materials is one of the major issues we face today. The input costs includes steel or alloy, power and labour costs. We are looking
for ways to reduce or eliminate waste in the production process. Such an exercise, which is ongoing in nature, can itself add to the bottomline. However, these initiatives on value addition and waste reduction can have their limits. Raw materials like steel comprise around 55 percent of the cost of manufacturing bearings and hence, we are badly hit if there is a sustained increase in raw material cost. In fact, as the size and value
of bearings goes up the ladder, the higher is the impact of increasing commodity prices. The speed of capacity ramp up is another major issue that we will need to deal with in the coming months. The dynamic market scenario is compelling us to look for ways to upscale and downscale our capacity in short time frame and I feel that this (manufacturing flexibility) is likely to be a major challenge for all suppliers.
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Tata 407 completes quarter century in production Our Bureau Mumbai
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ata 407 competed 25 years in production, making it one of the longest serving vehicle models in production globally. The company crossed a major milestone by selling 500,000th units this year and is looking to refresh the vehicle platform to enhance the lifespan of the most successful vehicle from the company’s stable. Managing Director, India Operations, Tata Motors, PM Telang, who led the ‘Project Jupiter’ culminating in successful development of the ‘407’ from Tata Engineering and Locomotives Company (‘Telco’ as Tata Motors was then known), said that the vehicle paved the way for the company’s entry into the light commercial vehicle segment amid stiff domestic and international competition. He said that the initial attempt was to develop ‘heavy duty’ 15 tonne goods carrier. But the company decided to change tracks after
Launched in 1986, the Tata 407, the fi rst SFC (Semi Forward Control) vehicle family from the company, clocks seven out of every 10 vehicles sold in the category with close to 75 to 80 percent ma rketshare. About 55 percent of its owners are fi rsttime users. The vehicle power has grown from 65 to 110 HP with close to 15 models offered on the platform or ‘407 family’. Initially First TATA 407 rolls out of the Tata Motors Pune facility in February 1986 built with significant percentage of imported market feedback indicated a in the commercial vehicle segcomponents, the vehicle famimajor gap in the light commerment operating in the mid to ly is now fully localised and has cial vehicle segment. late eighties, most exited the helped kick start businesses of segment due to lack of custommany auto component suppliers er response and uneconomic Tapping Potential in India. manufacturing. Some of the key Of the seven major domesutility and light commercial tic and international players vehicle manufacturers operatThe 407 Portfolio ing in the market then included Available both in diesel and Standard Motors, Bajaj Tempo, CNG options and tonnage rangDCM Toyota, Eicher Mitsubishi, ing from 2.2 to 4.2 tonnes payload, Allwyn Nissan and Mahindra & the 407 goods transportation Mahindra. “The company took portfolio has been expanded a bold decision to enter a hithover the years to trucks, tippers, erto untapped segment and pick-ups and vehicles for agri/ most customers embraced the food products, construction, offering. We have since offered light mining among other applihigh powered variants with cations. Additionally, the 407 different applications and specplatform also spawned the comification on the 407 platform,” pany’s Cityride fully built buses said Telang. He added that the in 12 to 24 seat variants, popular vehicle family is one of few from in applications for school, staff the company’s stable to fi nd its transportation and feeder bus way to the international marservice. Following the company’s ket, notably to Russia (formerly joint venture with Marcopolo of USSR) in the late eighties and Brazil in 2006, the platform was early nineties. included in the Starbus range
as a 24-seat variant and 12 to 18 seat luxury variants. Among the major variants in goods transportation is the SFC 407EX Turbo. This model offers a host of applications for industrial use, agricultural produce, dairy products, courier and parcel services, with high fuel efficiency and commensurate payload capacity. The tipper variants include the LPK 407 for applications in construction and light mining industries and the SK 407 for sand movement, quarry application, laterite-stone transportation and construction material freight. The EX-2 Refresh Series took operating economy to a new high with longer service interval and heav y-duty load body. Power steering with upgraded cabin features brought better safety and comfort.
CNG Option In 2009, the company introduced the 407 pickup with shorter overall length, small turning circle but large loading area and maximum payload in the category, ideal for applications in rural and urban areas. The CNG fuel option too was introduced in 2009 to help customers leverage the expanding CNG fuel distribution network in the country, and last year saw the introduction of the common rail BS IV compliant diesel engine. The company has operations in the UK, South Korea, Thailand and Spain including Jaguar Land Rover. It is the world’s fourth largest truck manufacturer and the third largest bus manufacturer. Tata cars, buses and trucks are being marketed in several countries in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, South East Asia and South America.
MTE and Escofier in JV Our Bureau Chenaai
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TE Industries (MTE) and Escofier SAS France are set to start a joint venture called “MTE Escofier Forming Technologies” for the manufacture of incremental
spline rolling dies and rack rolling dies in Hyderabad, India. Presently, the company claims that no other manufacturer is manufacturing these products in India. This newly formed JV will contribute to import substitution. The expected capital for this company is Euro one million.
According to the JV, MTE exports the thread rolling machines through Escofier. The latter has a sales network across the globe. This will be a breakthrough in the world market as the technolog y of the French company and the manufacturing excellence of MTE ultimately delivers excellent products for the best price. The company also takes care of operations related to the other products manufactured by Escofier like the gear rolling machines and dies. MTE, has almost 65 percent market share in this category of the products. Its major clients include Hero Moto Corp, Bajaj, Honda Motorcycles and Scooters, T VS Motors and Suzuki Motorcycles and their ancillaries in the two wheeler categor y and Ma hindra & Ma hindra, Tata Motors, Suzuki Power train, Rane Group and Sona Group in the four wheeler category. It has set up a world class infrastructure required for the manufacturing of its products. Built across nine acres of land in Dundigal (AP), the company is set to take its products to the international market. Escofier manufactures gear rolling machines, spline rolling machines, thread rolling machines, thread rolling dies, Incremental rolling dies and rack rolling dies.
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TVS & Sons looks at leased premises to expand capacity T Murrali Madurai
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he Ashok Leyland Strategic Business Unit (AL SBU) of TV Sundram Iyengar & Sons (TVS) is looking at leased and rented premises to increase the number of service centres. This is primarily due to skyrocketing real estate prices. AL SBU of TVS has 17 outlets in Tamil Nadu, 11 in Kerala, six in Madhya Pradesh, five in Uttar Pradesh and one in Uttarkhand. Speaking to Auto Monitor, Vice President, Ashok Leyland Strategic Business Unit, TV Sundram Iyengar & Sons, P Nachimuthu said, “We are adding four more outlets in MP. Every year we are planning to add two outlets in Tamil Nadu. The purpose is to minimise the time for the customer to reach our service centre. In addition to this, we have started a 24x7 service in major outlets like Salem, Coimbatore, Madurai, Namakal and Sankagiri. In the remaining places, we have implemented two shifts as Ashok Leyland has
begun incentivising roundthe-clock service, especially for attending warranty issues. In about a year’s time, all the outlets will function 24x7.” The company currently holds 25 percent of the market share in terms of total vehicle parc. It is also planning to establish a tieup soon with one of its group’s business division—MyTVS, to enhance the number of vehicles serviced. The objective is to enhance the services offered by 15 to 20 percent. Currently up to 20 percent of the service personnel at each of the company’s outlets are deployed for roadside assistance. “In order to optimise resources we are tying up with MyTVS, which will provide roadside assistance facilities that are already available with them. We can effectively utilise our available manpower in the regular service. We have also offered this service to Ashok Leyland in the other regions where we are not present.” In order to address issues relating to real estate cost and capacity expansion, the company has been following Lean
P Nachimuthu, VP, (AL SBU) TVS & Sons
Manufacturing Practice (LMP), which is generally associated with the manufacturing industries. Asked how the company could adapt the methodology, he said it was possible by making the service centre into a factory. When asked about the impetus for introducing LMP, he said that with service centres and the dealerships facing several challenges, most of the companies involved in the business are looking at several options to not only overcome but also to leverage the emerging trends. As part of the
The company has sought the services of a lean management consultant Takao Kasahara to improve productivity of its service centre and it has begun witnessing positive results
initiative to make AL SBU profitable, “We have drawn extensive plans to address several challenges,” he said. The challenges faced by the service centre, according to him include high real estate cost, availability of manpower, talent retention, increasing technology of vehicles and the entry of a host of diagnostic tools. Though there are several challenges there is no worry about competition as the market is growing and more and more vehicles need attention of organised service centres, he said. The vehicle owners also face a few challenges including the increased price of vehicles due to technological upgradation for improved performance and compatibility to emission norms. This eventually enhances the EMI paid by the vehicle buyers by up to 30 percent. In addition, the rise in fuel price increases the operational cost thereby thinning the margins further. As the users do not have an option in reducing this expenditure, they are looking at containing the cost of ownership that include after sales service and consumables. Therefore, users comprising the fleet operators as well as individuals expect high technology service at lowest cost possible, preferably on even credit payments. “If we need to capitalise the trend, it is necessary to enhance productivity and eliminate waste and optimise existing resources. And the only option we had was resorting to LMP,” he said. The company has sought the services of a lean management consultant Takao Kasahara to improve productivity of its service centre. Implemented at one of the service centres situated in
Nilambur, the company begun witnessing positive results. In order to improve productivity and eliminate waste, it has developed many techniques including developing jigs and fi xtures that primarily reduce the fatigue of the workers. This helps the company on two counts—employee satisfaction and productivity improvement. Besides, it has identified non-value added process and done away with that—giving additional 15 percent productivity. Moreover, these initiatives helped this facility to reduce the engine overhaul time from 61.6 hours in April 2007 to 36.14 hours at the beginning of this fiscal. Similarly, the pre-delivery inspection has been reduced to 1.12 hours from 3.35 hours and the 8,000 km service from 3.06 hours to 1.24 hours and 16,000 km service from 5.33 hours to 3.29 hours during the same period. The overhauling time for clutch is reduced to three hours from more than 16 hours. The interesting aspect of this initiative is that most of the tools have been developed in-house by the workmen. Besides, they have also developed a tool rack specifically for engine and clutch. “We are planning to horizontally deploy these best practices we learned and implemented in Nilambur to all our outlets in Tamil Nadu and Kerala,” Nachimuthu said. Leveraging its capabilities, the company is also reconditioning engines for Ashok Leyland at its facilities in Salem, Coimbatore and Madurai. Presently it overhauls about 300 engines for customers and reconditions close to 30 engines though the installed capacity is 500 engines per month.
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Developing trends in the Indian automotive industry Emergence of India as an automotive hub
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Rajeev Singh, Associate Director, PwC India
Siddhartha Sinha, Principal Consultant, Operation & Supply Chain Consulting, PwC India
rom just six Original Equipment manufacturers (OEMs) two decades ago, India today is fast emerging as a global hub with more than 40 OEMs setting up shop to cater to the needs of global market. The Indian automotive industry is today close to 35 billion USD growing at 18 percent per annum. This change over the last two decades has been possible because of a series of policy reforms, growth in favourable market conditions as well as availability of resources required for manufacturing and assembly of vehicles. One of the major reasons for development of India as a global automotive hub has been the strong domestic demand. The changing demographics, rising disposable incomes, introduction of new models has expanded the domestic market for passenger vehicles. This coupled with the proximity to emerging markets such as Asia and Africa has helped India to emerge as a choice destination for many auto manufacturers. Another key reason for choice of India has been the availability of skilled manpower. With close to 0.4 million engineers graduating in India every year and seven million people entering the workforce, India provided to the auto industry skilled manpower at rates less than half in US. A strong auto component industry in the country further tilted the balance in India’s favour.
Changing Customer Requirements The rising fuel prices have had a direct impact on the choice of vehicles. There is a growing customer demand for larger and more powerful SUVs as well as small compact cars. However fuel efficiency is a key driver for the buying pattern. It is this need which is driving the designers to make cars lighter in weight as a
The changing demographics, rising disposable incomes & introduction of new models has expanded the domestic market for PVs. This coupled with the proximity to emerging markets such as Asia and Africa has helped India to emerge as a choice destination for many auto manufacturers. Another key reason for choice of India has been the availability of skilled manpower
10 percent reduction in vehicle weight leads to a six percent fuel economy gain. The bundling of all offerings of auto fi nance, insurance and after sales service, which was started off as a tool by car manufacturers to woo customers has now become a norm. The customer today has limited time span and to make a sales within the small time span available the car manufacturers have to have bundle all services under one roof.
Shortening Product Cycle The Indian auto industry has seen the entry of many new players in the recent past. In their efforts to increase market share, the auto companies have been constantly introducing new products. While these efforts have led to an increased off take of vehicles, it has also resulted in the reduction of product cycle. No longer is a car or a commercial vehicle bought for a life time. The average product life in 1997 was eight years, 2007 it was five to six years and in 2011 is expected to come down to four to five years. This has further created pressure on the research and development groups at the auto as well as auto component manufacturers to reduce the new product development time.
Improved Quality Standards The image of a quality product has undergone a transformation over the last decade. Customers demand quality in the products and services that they purchase. Quality issues impact customer satisfaction and brand loyalty. The customers take good quality and reliability as given factors. The customers today look forward to zero breakdown vehicles and early warning systems to identify problems quickly.
Implications On The Supply Chain The changes in the market place in the auto industry have created many challenges for the supply chain. Modern manufacturing practices have driven down the cost and time of production processes leaving supply chain as the fi nal frontier for competitive advantage. The impact of the changes in the auto industry have been both in the upstream as well as the downstream supply chain.
The Upstream Supply Chain The Indian auto component industry has a turnover at about $19 billion with a potential compounded annual growth rate of the industry estimated to be around 19 percent. Yet this industry is unable to fulfi l the entire demand of the 40 plus OEMs in the country. This has led to a capacity crunch at the suppliers as different OEMs are vying for the same capacity. The flexibility available in
the assembly lines is yet to be replicated at the factories of the component suppliers. The dedicated facilities set up in the past for long runs have today become inflexible to handle the dynamic demand conditions. The need of certain OEMs to maintain their bargaining power has led them to incur high transaction costs due to their huge supplier base. While ERP packages at the OEMs have helped them to streamline their functioning, the link for smooth information flow between the company and its vendors is still in native stages. This unsynchronised information flow has led to unsynchronised material flow resulting in stockouts and inventory overflows. While organisations have been focusing on the operational initiatives to improve linearity, higher delivery compliance and zero stock, the need is to move towards creating an agile, flexible world class supplier base. The days of bargaining over cost are over, the need is to build long lasting supplier partnerships to ensure business continuity. The OEMs need to assess their technological, capacity and fi nancial risk going forward. It is becoming necessary to work on tierisation/rationalisation of vendor bases, instead of creating higher buying power by a fragmented vendor base. The Tata Nano story has proved the benefits of joint product development along with vendors. It not only leads to shorter product development times, it also helps the organisation handle risks associated with market turmoil. The OEM and its vendors have to work together with the philosophy of that we swim or sink together. One cannot succeed at the cost of the other.
The Downstream Supply Chain Two decades ago if one had to buy a car one would have to place an order and then wait for months together or pay a premium for a quicker delivery. Today you have to just think of buying a vehicle and everything from arranging the fi nance to even buying back your old car is there for you at your doorstep. This shift from a seller market to a buyer market has led to new business models being created in the downstream supply chain. While at one point of time the dealers were selected and appointed by the OEMs and it was the duty of the dealers to sell the vehicles. The dealers were sometimes thrust upon with vehicles by overzealous sales managers in order to meet their sales targets. Today the situation has completely changed. The sales arms of the OEMs are today also responsible for ensuring the profitability of their channel partners. This has led to alliances being formed between the auto companies, the banks and the insurance companies working together at a
common dealer to bundle product offerings. A key focus area of the organisation is going to be in deciding their strategy for production. While orders may trigger the flow of goods this may or may not trigger immediate production of goods. Organisations today are oscillating between push and pull models. This choice of production strategy has a major impact on the dynamics of supply chain. In a highly dynamic market one of the key challenges in the downstream supply chain have been to improve OTIF. The customer has plenty of choices today and is no longer ready to wait in the eventuality of a stock out. On the other hand it is equally important to maintain lower inventory while there are product proliferations. This has to be managed through development of a lean and agile supply chain supported by real time information flow mechanism between the point of sale and point of manufacture. Instead of having buffering or inventory at every stage its is necessary to reduce uncertainty in system by sharing of information. The need is to substitute inventory with information.
Endnote The auto industry in India has grown rapidly in the last two decades. Many OEMs rode on this wave and created success for themselves. However, the factors which led to their success in the past are no longer lead them to higher positions in the coming decade. Customer expectations are changing very fast, the demographics itself is undergoing a major change and coupled with this is the challenge of changing equations with the auto component industry. The Players, who will identify the emerging trends, focus on new opportunities and create a Differentiated Supply Chain Models, will be the ones to lead the market in the coming decade. (Views expressed are personal.)
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Achates to make inroads in CV segment Abhishek Parekh Mumbai
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chates Power, the US-based engine manufacturer, which has refined the opposed-piston engine technology, is looking to penetrate the commercial vehicle segment as the segment provides much better showcase for the effectiveness of the company’s value preposition as compared to the passenger vehicle segment. “Since a typical truck is consuming a lot of fuel and constantly on the move, the value preposition that we offer is even more compelling for the CV segment,” President and Chief Executive Officer, Achates Power, David Johnson. Executing customers’ programmes to meet their specifications and requirements remains a key priority for the company. A typical heavy duty truck in the US, for instance, covers nearly 120,000 miles in a year and consumes more than 20,000 gallons of fuel in the process. “I do expect our first production-ready diesel engines to be in the CV segment as we offer a very compelling value preposition for that segment,” he added. The company’s technology could potentially save around $12,000 per annum in the above circumstances. More pertinent ly, said Johnson, most measures for improving efficiency of existing diesel engine technology, can also be applied to ‘opposed piston’ diesel engines. The company is looking to leapfrog in its evolution path by offering a superior diesel engine technology with scope of improving it through various measures. The company has been working with a number of customers for initial stage prototypes and approvals. “We are currently at a very critical juncture in our existence as we are looking to have several operational projects with customers and are between prototyping and the fi nal approval stage,” said Johnson. He added that most of the prospective customers are keen on knowing the fundamental benefits of the engine, ability to meet emission norms and scope of improvement in performance among other issues. Changing an existing platform or an engine in a vehicle is a major decision for any automobile company, especially when the engine has been a proven success and achieved its objective, he added. An engine manufacturer’s ability to manufacture reliable and powerful engines has improved substantially over the past decade. It has taken around three to four years for Achates to achieve the desired performance level from the engine as opposed to around five to six years that may have been consumed around a decade ago. “Over the last 12 months or so, we have been able to improve fuel efficiency and performance of our engines from 13 percent to around 20 percent,” said Johnson. The company is looking to offer its internal combustion engine for a hybrid platform of vehicle manufacturer to be mated with an electric powertrain. Such a platform could offer a better value preposition compared to the existing gasoline/
a customers’ perspective primarily comes from stop-start driving cycle as opposed to driving non-stop for hundreds of kilometres. In such stop/ start driving conditions, a diesel/ electric hybrid, with our engine, can be a much better solutions that currently available petrol/electric set up. We are still in process of collecting data on exactly how efficient our solution could prove in actual conditions as opposed to currentDavid Johnson, President & CEO, Achates Power ly available systems,” elaborated Johnson. electric choices available in the The company is looking to market. “In my view, the benefit offer cost effective solutions for of having a hybrid system from
We are currently at a very critical juncture in our existence as we are looking to have several operational projects with customers and are between prototyping and the final approval stage. We are continuing to improve our existing engine perfromance alongside
three and four cylinder diesel engines with two cylinder ones. “We are looking at certain market segments in India like medium or small commercial vehicles for offering our technology. It would be difficult for us to, say, offer better or more cost effective solution in a single cylinder engine used in auto rickshaw but we are still evaluating what best could be offered under such circumstances,” said Johnson. Founded in 2004 by serial entrepreneur and physicist - Dr James Lemke, who has 90 patents, and the late John Walton—with the mission to build fundamentally better engines, the company has more than 50 in-house engineers and scientists with proven technical know-how and industry expertise, coupled with testing capabilities, simulation and analysis tools.
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Hyundai Eon on road at `2.6 lakh Our Bureau New Delhi/ Chennai
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yundai Motor India (HMIL) has fielded yet another car to compete in the small car segment by launching Eon in India. The Korean carmaker expects to sell around 12,000 units per month. Though the new car is expected to give a direct competition to Maruti Suzuki Alto, according to Managing Director, Hyundai Motor India, HW Park, it is not the case. “Eon is a feature-rich car despite being the smallest car from our company,” said Park. The new car is available in six variants at introductory price between ` 2.7 lakh to `3.7 lakh (ex-showroom New Delhi). Maruti’s Alto, which clocks around 25,000 units every month, is priced at `2.35 lakh for the entry level car while the top-end version, coming with airconditioning, heater and power steering is priced at `2.84 lakh (ex-showroom, Delhi). “This launch will create excite-
Hyundai Eon
ment in the market. We hope to sell over 12,000 units of Eon a month” Park said. The smallest car from HMIL’s stable has been developed with an investment of around `900 crore over four years. Eon is equipped with 0.8 L iRDE engine delivering 56PS @ 5500 RPM of maximum power and 7.65 kgm @4000 RPM of torque. According to the company, the 814 cc petrol engine is mated to a five-speed manual
transmission and can deliver a mileage of up to 21.1 kmpl. The car will be launched with LPG option in near future. HMIL currently has a total production capacity of 6.7 lakh units, which is currently under full utilisation. The company will cater to the domestic requirements and with this new product in its product portfolio it might have to cut on the exports to match the increasing demand in the domestic
market. The carmaker currently exports around 2.4 lakh units every year. HMIL is also looking to export the Eon to some markets in South America and to South Africa. India, which contributes around 18 percent of global revenue share of Hyundai Motor, will continue to be an important market. The company has priced the Eon slightly higher than the Maruti Alto, currently largest selling car in the segment, but the comfort, design, space and some premium feature may give it an edge, according to dealers. Hyundai’s design and development centre at Namyang in Korea has worked in sync with its Hyderabad-based R&D centre to fi rm up on the fluidic design to develop a new platform in the form of the Eon.
Drivers For Eon The interior styling of the car has been conceptualised keeping in mind efficient space management, according to company officials. The judicious utilisation of space in the car is evident
from many storage spaces like multiple bottle and cup holders, a glove box and practically designed dashboard for storing small utility items. The car has Alternator Management System (AMS) developed specifically for the Indian customers to deliver more eco-efficient driving. The company claims that this technology controls the power supply to the battery to relieve the engine workload and reduces fuel consumption and emissions while decelerating and idling. The AMS also helps in increasing the life cycle of the battery by 15 to 20 percent. Another feature of manual shift indicator in Eon prompts the driver whenever a gearshift is required. Compacts and mini-cars accounted for at least 75 percent of the car market in India. While Maruti Suzuki’s market share has dropped to 39 percent this fiscal, Hyundai accounted for 15.2 percent of the total cars sold in the first six months of this fiscal compared with 19 percent last year.
HCV segment may remain subdued: Shriram Transport Our Bureau New Delhi
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here is unlikely to be any double digit growth in the medium and heavy duty commercial vehicles in this fiscal given the subdued Index of Industrial Production (IIP) numbers over the last few months and rising interest rate scenario, according to Deputy Managing Director, Shriram Transport Finance Company, UG Revankar. He added that light commercial vehicle segment (upto eight tonnes) could notch up growth in excess of 25 percent in this fiscal.
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The company is expecting to grow its incremental disbursement or vehicle loan book by around 10 percent this fiscal from around `18,000 crore in the last fiscal. It is looking to have a major presence in the farm equipment and construction equipment segment. It recently kicked off Shriram Automall in Panvel near Mumbai, a facility spread across two lakh sq ft. Like its Chennai-based predecessor, this facility would provide platform for trading of the truck, vehicle fi nancing and insurance, repairs and refurbishment of trucks. The facility houses Shriram One Stop, a computerised touch screen kiosk, which will be a virtual truck market. What’s more, ‘Shriram New Look’, a part of the automall, provides refurbished pre-owned commercial vehicles with fi nancing options to customers. The company plans to have 50 such facilities strategically located on important highways across the country. Established in 1979, the company has nationwide presence with 494 branch offices. Based in Mumbai, it manages assets over `37,000 crore.
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Beda Flow bullish on growth potential Nabeel A Khan New Delhi
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eda Flow Systems (BFS), involved in the marketing and trading of liquid measurement flow metres and hydraulic auto components made by Germany-based manufacturer—E-Holding—is expecting a huge growth in the sales revenue. The positive outlook is backed by a substantial rise in the demand of these products coming from automotive testing benches. BFS, a 50:50 JV between its directors and E-Holding, is looking at a growth of over 100 percent in this fi nancial year. The Noida-based company is planning to launch an array of new products to cater to low cost solutions as well high-end solutions for liquid measurement requirements in India to keep the demand up. It has recently launched the RS series of flow metres, which is a new screw type flow metre that allows to measure liquid with higher viscosity, low pressure drops and also liquid with particles and fi llers. The earlier metres were not able to measure the liquid with particles. While the newly launched glass canister for magnetic coupling will enable power saving of 30 percent in the chemical industry. The liquid flow metres are used in the applications like testing brake fluids, diesel and petrol consumption. The company notched up a turnover of `2.4 crore in FY11 and this year it hopes to touch `five crore. It had made an initial investment of around `50,000 on the infrastructure. Presently, the company is run by a team of around five people and notches over 35 percent of its revenue from automotive sector, while the rest of the business comes from aeronautics, chemical and other industries. It earns a profit margin of over 22 percent on an average and has grown over 100 percent in the last two years. Flow measurement equipment, made by another manufacturing company of E-Holding called VSE, churns out maximum revenue for the company. In terms of volume—last year it sold 50 units of flow metre and this year already sold close to 200 units. At present, in the Indian market it does not see any competition, the reason being the product lines offered are catering to the niche segment, wherein the industry comes to BFS when the accuracy parameters are very high and they are aware of the considerable investment in the instruments. “The common f low metre manufacturers are using oval or glass type, which is available in `5,000 to `6,000 ranges, while our products start at close to `50,000, but once we go on the accuracy parameter, it is high. We approach our customers according to our offerings and give them upto two percent of accuracy in terms of the fi lling segment.” Director, BFS, Raghav Das told Auto Monitor. The component makers specially the PU products makers are also one of the main customers of the company for high pressure injection moulding. It offers high repeatability from its flow metre with a high-range product, which offers 0.05 percent of repeatability and accuracy of 0.3
Raghav Das, Director, BFS
percent. Soon, it will also introduce fl ow metres, which can measure liquids with particles. The use of these instruments go into various areas, which are directly or indirectly connected to the automotive industry like
Test Bench For Brake Fluids
testing, fi lling and consumption measurement. In the automotive industry, BFS has its customers like Maruti, Honda, Caterpillar, Piaggio. Last year, the company has added fi ve distributors that are segregated on a
regional basis. Five years ago, it had limited product lines for oil and water but today, it has become the flow metre solution provider across the segment which includes diesels, oil, paint, chemicals,
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polyutherene and glue. The trading company has major presence in the automobile industry where it primarily sells liquid fi lling machines and liquid flow metre for the test benches at manufacturing units.
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Future LabVIEWs to accelerate System Designer Summit held in Bangalore, Kodosky said, “When we started out 25 years ago, we sought to create a tool for scientists and engineers that would be immensely productive; LabVIEW made it possible for engineers to do it faster and at a lower cost.” The participants were NI’s customers, partners, practicing engineers, educators and students. It hosted various technical sessions, expert speakers, hands on sessions and live demonstrations on how to gain the competitive advantage and obtain accelerated time to market through the software. The three-day event was designed to cover most of the stakeholders; while the fi rst day was assigned for students, the second day was meant for educators and the last day for the industry. It was an attempt to bridge the gap between the academia and the industry.
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he message that clearly emerged out of the three-day event—NIDays 2011 organised by National Instruments (NI) in Bangalore recently, is to look at options to improve the local engineering talent to come up more rapidly with prototypes using graphical systems design, which can accelerate innovation. This is because of high impact of LabVIEW in India having concentration of human capital and talents since the software offers engineers and scientists with the tools they need to create measurement and control applications. In the next 25 years, LabVIEW, developed by NI, will defi ne and deliver their vision of graphical system design to speed up the process of design, prototyping and deployment of all kinds of measurement and control systems, according to NI Business and Technology Fellow and Co-Founder, LabVIEW, Jeff Kodosky. Delivering the keynote address at NIDays 2011, the Graphical
Enhanced Platform Managing Director (India, Russia and Arabia), National Instruments, Jayaram Pillai said, “We stand tall because of your success,” referring to NI’s cus-
Visitors at NIDays 2011 event
tomers. He said the engineers should focus on core engineering, which has an immense potential for growth. As part of the event, the 2011 version of LabVIEW was launched. Kodosky, who is also called as the ‘Father of LabVIEW,’ said the new version has more input /output applications and it can increase productivity by three to
ten times than the previous versions. It has improved stability and includes numerous features taken directly from user feedback. It can dramatically increase development efficiency through new engineering specific libraries and can easily interact with almost any hardware device or deployment target. It can integrate tightly with high-performance modular instru-
mentation to provide a unified platform for meeting engineering challenges in every industry.
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innovative design, prototyping the time to market of their RF designs, he said. The acquisition of Phase Matrix brings key RF talent, technologies and manufacturing capabilities to NI and will increase the capability of its products in high-frequency RF and microwave applications, Kodosky added.
Jeff Kodosky, NI Business and Technology Fellow & Co-Founder of LabVIEW
System Integration Vice President, NI Systems India, Victor Mieres said the need to integrate the elements of engineering systems has been the impetus for graphical system design. The benefits are in scalable software abstraction, integration of modular input / output, commercial technology and abstraction to the hardware as well as software level. He also spoke on Planet NI that benefited several SMEs. Seeking his observation on the inputs received from NI’s customers in India for products already developed, he said, “What we have learnt from India is to make the product more accessible. Although we believe that our products benefit several users in terms of efficiency and productivity, it still may not be accessible to all the engineers and scientists who could benefit from them.” With the result, low cost solutions emerged benefiting even students, he said. “We initiated Planet NI focussing on SMEs. At the same time we have expanded our manufacturing base globally by setting up a plant in Malaysia. One of the objectives of the group of individuals there is to continue to stretch boundaries in terms of cost of products so that we could enable the innovation and make it even more popular,” he added.
Tell us about the evolution of LabVIEW and its contribution to the global automotive industry? Any engineering industry will have several things to be tested and measured during the new product development and other processes. When we came up with LabVIEW, we realised that the customers who were using original tools were happy to use our product that came with a bunch of applications. It also helped those who are using different kinds of monitoring, testing and controls. The automotive industry has so much demand due to the specific requirements to test a host of mechanical operations and processes. Besides, the modern automobiles have a lot of mechatronic devices that call for f lexible testing processes. How has it helped to accelerate the new product
development process? We have be en cha llenged to add ress t he various input/ output means and time constra ints t hat a re speci f ic to automotive industry. These challenging requirements helped us ex pa nd ou r product portfolio. We also ca me across the ‘V’ diagram where they (auto industry) displayed the high levels of automobiles design, components design and implementation. It also showed the high levels of testing at components as well as systems level. All these things inspired us to consider how we can standardise across the design side and the test side so that the same platform can be used; the inputs that are generated during the design phase can easily migrate to the test side and greatly reduce the cost of developing test programmes. This has been a great inspiration from the automotive industry. Standardisation helps automotive industry to optimise development cost. How does NI support in these programmes? NI helps in a couple of ways; for instance, it helps from the
perspective of LabVIEW’s broad portability and its ability to design at higher level of abstraction. In addition we have got a wide range of deployable targets from standard processes to real time embedded processes for ‘hardware in loop’ testing to field-programmable gate arrays (FPGA), which is very high speed control applications. All these integrate from one environment and so there is whole lot of leverage that the designer has in being able to target whatever he needs for particular application or tests. We have a broad range of input/output devices and some 450 modular instruments that offer customisable and f lexible systems. How does NI support the automotive industry on alternative materials to optimise efficiency? Alternate materials have different kinds of failure modes and so the testing methodology is different. This calls for a broader range of testing capabilities, which we can integrate in LabVIEW. What are the challenges you face while integrating test systems for different kinds of materials? I am certainly not an expert on materials but what I can say is that the challenges are in testing the portion where different materials intersect. This is because there will be different kinds of failure modes calling for different methods of testing.
At the macro level, how does NI contribute to the energy savings of any nation? One of our campaigns is on ‘Green Engineering’ through which, we can help companies conserve resources using energy better. We have a good example from a steel mill, which was able to cut power consumption to quite an extent. You have to measure what you are doing now and understand before you can have control algorithms or other techniques to reduce the cost. You need automation to measure and control. What are the megatrends that you look at while developing new versions of LabVIEW? Any industry will look at trends in connectivity, energy and materials and we get exposed to all these trends; maybe even a tad more in some areas. What are the signals and stimulants that you get from emerging markets for developing new products? We have a general mechanism to exchange ideas from around the world. I look at this everyday but I may not be aware about from which part of the world the ideas emerged. However, looking at the creativity, imagination, enthusiasm and excitement of students—some of them displayed their projects at the exhibition during NIDays 2011 in Bangalore—I can say that they were incredible. I really get pumped up when I see the excitement.
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Delux pads up for passenger car segment Abhishek Parekh Mumbai
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elux Bearings is looking to strengthen its presence in the passenger car segment with an investment of around `20 crore in new capacity in Gujarat. It is also planning to invest another `10 crore in its existing facility in Pune and Surendranagar plant for additional capacity to address growing requirements from its commercial vehicle customers. The company is looking to set up a new facility near its existing facility in Surendranagar in Gujarat for passenger cars and commercial vehicle applications. The new Gujarat facility would go on stream by the end of next year. The capacity of the new facility
(Left) Kirti Rathod, Chairman & MD, Delux Bearings
would be similar to its existing facility in Pune.
Next-Gen Vision “We have cleared the prototyping stage for our products catering to the passenger car segment. Moreover, we are already
Components by Delux Bearings
seeing a structural shift from medium sized commercial vehicles to heavy vehicles as well as small commercial vehicles,” said Chairman and Managing Director, Delux Bearings, Kirti Rathod. He further added that most overseas players includ-
ing Man and Volvo are likely to tweak their offerings in the medium duty commercial vehicle segment to make it suitable for heavy duty applications. Some of these specialised applications include mining and construction and other off-road
and cargo applications. The company is working on the next generation products with superior performance and reliability as compared to existing bearings in coordination with its OEM customers. It is looking to enter new bearings application areas with existing and newer OEM customers. The company is looking to grow its relationship with Ashok Leyland and Ashok LeylandNissan combine for growing presence in the heavy duty and the light duty truck segment. The company derives around five percent of its business from passenger car segment and around 35 percent of the revenues from commercial vehicle segment with remaining share contributed by tractors and the aftermarket segment. Over the next couple of years, the company is hoping to grow the share of commercial vehicle business from around 35 to 50 percent, while it is also looking to make deeper inroads into the tractors segment. He added that the total tractor production in India may touch around one million annually by 2017 compared to around 450,000 units in the last fi scal catering to the domestic and export markets.
New Orders & Value Adds “Reduced availabilit y of labour in hinterlands and growing usage of tractors for non agricultural segment points towards increased production of tractors in the country,” he said. He added that the company is looking to bag additional customers in tractors segment with value added products. It has bagged orders from Case New Holland and International Tractors in the recent months. Most tractor manufacturers are looking to upgrade technology and offer value added tractors in order to enable customers to leap from 35 HP to 60 HP or above capacity rather than lower powered 40 or 50 HP. The company has bagged orders from customers like Eaton (domestic and international requirements), Eicher Volvo, MAN, Ashok Leyland, Amtek for different bearings application including clutch bearings and bogey bearings. The company has also patented nine bearing products supplied to these customers. “We would occupy a major position as a Tier II supplier to major commercial vehicle and passenger car segment as some of the Tier I customers are gearing up for major uptake in demand from Tata Motors and Ashok Leyland,” said Rathod. Currently, the company has a network of around 130 exclusive and non-exclusive dealers and it is looking to garner increased volumes from these dealers in the coming months. The compa ny revenues stood around `110 crore last fiscal and it is looking for further increase and expansion to raise the capacity to around `250 crore over the next four years. The company is working on newer products in taper roller bearings, clutch bearings and cylindrical roller bearings. The company is targeting exports volumes of around `40 crore by next fiscal catering to the aftermarket as well as Tier I OEM suppliers.
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MathWorks upgrades simulation tool Shambhavi Anand New Delhi
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s a part of making one of its simulation tool, Simulink, an even more advanced product, MathWorks has added new capabilities within the embedded coder. This will enable the automotive companies to generate production optimised code involving several key industry standards and technologies. The embedded coder has added a rich set of code replacement libraries that offer order-ofmagnitude speed increases for advanced processors architectures, including SIMD, SSE, and Intel IPP. A new user interface facilitates creation and management of code replacement libraries as well.
The embedded coder will enable the automotive companies to generate production optimised code involving several key industry standards and technologies. It has added a rich set of code replacement libraries that offer order-ofmagnitude speed increases for advanced processors architectures, including SIMD, SSE, and Intel IPP
“We are updating our products on timely basis, usually every six months is an ongoing process. We meet our clients who regularly use our products, discuss the features and try to update our products to help suit their requirements better,” Steve Miller who is responsible for the technical marketing of the physical modelling tools at MathWorks said. The company, headquarters in Natick, Massachusetts, US, is a developer of mathematical computing software. The two fl agship products—Matlab and Simulink, help its customers in providing them with computing environment for technical computation, visualisation, simulation, design, and implementation. While MatLab is a programming environment for algorithm development, data analysis, visualisation, and numeric computation, Simulink is a graphical environment for simulation and model-based design of multi-domain dynamic and embedded systems. The company produces nearly 100 more products for specialised tasks such as data analysis and image processing. The products are mainly used for development of control systems in an automobile. Matlab can be used for processes like signal processing, control system analysis, image processing, and just general data analysis. Simulink can help in model-
Steve Miller, Technical Marketing, MathWorks
based design for control, signal processing, and communications system development. The software has the ability to model the entire system to test for integration issues. They can also be useful in reducing design iterations as the errors can be checked for at every stage
of designing rather than fi nding a host of errors at the end of the process and working on all of them together. The use of these tools can help in incorporating features like light weighting. They can also help in reducing the weight of an automobile by suggesting the design possibilities which are of the lightest weight to the user. Talking about the other applications of the products Miller said, “Some of the tools can also be used for factory simulation. These tools can help the best if applied for simulating the f low of parts or components to the assembly line. They can help model several systems and come up with a design that can be the best.” MathWorks has 1,000,000 cus-
Embedded Code: Specifying optimised code for ARM Cortex and other devices using code replacement libraries
tomers in more than 100 countries across sectors like automotive, aerospace, telecommunications and data communications, government, process industries, electronics, biotechnology and pharmaceuticals, fi nancial services, earth and planet and earth sciences, and instrumentation.
The company employs more than 2200 people in 15 countries. Its India n subsidia r y, MathWorks India was established in November 2008 in Bangalore and is responsible for selling and supporting the Matlab and Simulink families of products throughout the country.
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The passenger car segment fell by 1.36 percent during the April-September period this fiscal, while the utility vehicles grew by 9.84 percent and the multi-purpose vehicles grew by 19.24 percent in this fiscal. Toyota led the passenger car segment with a growth of around 603.17 percent from 5,232 units to touch 36,790 units this fiscal, as compared to the previous period. BMW notched up highest percentage growth in UV segment to touch 2,137 units compared to 190 units in the same period in the previous year, marking a growth of 1024.74 percent. Passenger Cars 2010-11
2011-12
BMW
2,484
2,868
Fiat
11,863
8,692
Ford
46,377
42,656
GM
41,971
43,420
Two-Wheelers
Commercial Vehicles
Passenger Vehicles
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15.46%
The overall commercial vehicles segment registered a growth of 17.85 percent in April-September, 2011 as compared to the same period last fiscal to touch 371,901 units. M&HCVs sales grew by 6.05 percent to touch 160,535 units compared to 151,370 units in the same period in the previous year. The LCV segment grew by 28.72 percent to touch 211,366 units in this fiscal, compared to 164,205 units in the same period last fiscal. Three-wheeler sales fell to 248,976 units in April-September period compared to 249,072 units in same period last year. Passenger carriers fell by 3.7 percent in April-September 2011 and goods carriers registered growth of 16.54 percent. VECV-Eicher registered the highest growth in the LCV segment to touch 4,947 units. Mahindra Navistar notched up a growth of 183.95 percent to touch 1,079 units this fiscal as compared to 380 units in the same period last fiscal in M&HCV.
-26.73%
LCVs (PC+GC) -8.02%
OEMs 3.45%
ALL
2010-11
2011-12
365
216
9,975
11,828
-40.82%
-62.68% HM
4,236
1,581
HSCI
29,864
24,040
HMIL
172,181
180,616
3,869
8,707
Force
-19.50%
MR MSIL
441,899
Merc
2,731
HM 4.90%
13.44%
3,098
174.89% 3,437
9,448
Renault
-
773
8,504
12,892
130,074
102,862
Skoda
58,758
MNAL
5,546
5,120
Piaggio
5,013
6,146
Swaraj
1,972
2,319
25.46% -7.68% 22.60%
Scooter/Scooterettees
17.60% 34.54%
51.60%
Tata
90,621
121,918
VECV - Eicher
3,665
4,947
164,205
211,366
Total
-20.92% Tata
114
46,835
125.05%
390,878 -11.55%
Nissan
213
M&M
18.58% -46.48%
5,232
36,790
Audi
985
1,917
VW
Total
16,105
921,812
2010-11
2011-12
BAL
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HML
149,865
195,090
HMSI
440,794
520,871
M&M 2W
70,713
74,235
SMIL
101,746
135,203
TVS
198,503
257,623
Total
961,648
1,183,022
30.18%
28.72%
94.62%
18.17% 4.98% 32.88%
M&HCVs (PC+GC) 136.23%
38,045
909,283
OEMs
-100.00% 34.98%
603.17% TKM
Domestic two-wheelers sales witnessed a growth of 17.42 percent in this fiscal registering 6,591,134 units against 5,613,436 units during the same period in the previous fiscal. Mopeds, motorcycles and scooters grew by 13.51 percent, 16.47 percent and 23.02 percent respectively. The motorcycle sales grew to 5,024,581 units in AprilSeptember period as compared to 4,313,906 units in corresponding period in the previous fiscal. In the Motorcycles segment, Suzuki Motorcycles’ sales were up by 58.37 percent in April-September period this fiscal while Bajaj Auto’s sales grew by around 9.1 percent to touch 1,307,846 units in April-September compared to 1,198,771 units in same period last fiscal. In the scooters segment, the sales of Hero Motors grew by 30.18 percent while TVS Motor sales grew by 29.78 percent. Hero MotoCorp reported its best sales for September at 535,636 units, registering a jump of 26.46 percent over the same month last year. Bajaj Auto witnessed 10.76 percent growth in its September sales at 255,786 units against the same month in the previous fiscal. TVS Motor Company reported total domestic two-wheeler sales of 192,027 units in September 2011 registering a growth of 25.76 percent. Suzuki Motorcycles India registered the highest growth in domestic two-wheelers sales at around 26.56 percent to touch 28,520 units in August this year.
-1.36%
OEMs
2010-11
2011-12
ALL
41,334
36,920
AMW
2,877
5,053
-10.68%
29.78% 23.02%
75.63%
UV OEMs BMW Force
2010-11 190 1,564
JCBL
2011-12 1024.74%
2,137
Ford
1,525
1,419
GM
9,833
11,635
HM
1,346
1,129
HSCI
307
151
HMIL
-
819
ICML
397
236
M&M
80,467
91,930
MSIL
3,807
3,846
Merc
197
403
Nissan
237
132
-6.95% 18.33% -16.12% -50.81% -40.55% 14.25% 1.02%
91
-
803
-
Tata
19,188
19,054
TKM
32,431
Audi
560
947
VW
3
4
-0.70% -6.04% 69.11%
130
M&M
0
11752
Maruti
75,117
78,365
Tata
24,718
28,832
Total
99,865
119,079
-
MNAL
380
1,079
3,518
3,853
9.52%
HML
Tata
88,899
96,235
8.25%
HMSI
332,740
346,332
VECV - Eicher
13,572
16,722
IYM
125,336
172,631
HDMC
23.21% -44.47%
VECV - Volvo
470
261
Volvo Buses
218
331
Total
151,370
160,535
0
178
2,305,198
2,800,542
M&M 2W 51.83%
9.10%
1,307,846
21.49% 4.08% 37.73% -_
RE
23,964
37,136
SMIL
18,467
29,246
TVS
309,430
330,670
54.97% 58.37%
6.05%
6.86% 16.47%
OEMs
2010-11
2011-12
Atul
8,580
12,219
Bajaj
98,855
97,608
42.41%
OEMs
135
8
M&M
28,665
33,149
Piaggio
94,197
92,105
2010-11
2011-12 13.51%
-1.26 TVS
-94.07% Force
Mopeds/Electric
15.64%
337,882
Electrotherm*
383,531
NA
- 0.00%
9.84%
13.51%
2011-12
30
1,198,771
Swaraj
33.33%
67,009
Force
BAL
2011-12
3-Wheelers (PC+GC)
MPV 2010-11
0
2010-11
Total 4,313,906 5,024,581
-
OEMs
0
OEMs - 0.00%
-44.30%
2
152,054
Motorcycles/StepThroughs
-
104.57%
Skoda
Total
1 80
183.95%
Renault
30,473
M&M
15.09%
1,800
102
-21.57% Daimler*
Scooters
6,307
7,673
TVS
12,333
6,214
Total
249,072
248,976
-2.22%
Total
337,882
383,531
21.66% -49.61%
* Data not available since August 2008 onwards
- 333.33% 4.32% 16.64% 19.24%
-0.04%
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Galaxy Bearings to invest `20 crore in upgradation of plant Shambhavi Anand Rajkot
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alaxy Bearings which produces, 2.5 million bearings mainly for exports, is planning to upgrade its facility to achieve better quality. On the cards is the installation of new imported machines in it sexisting manufacturing unit at Rajkot in Gujarat.
New Investments “For products such as bearings, precision is crucial. In order to achieve high level of quality so as to meet the requirements of the fast developing market, we are upgrading our plant,”
Focus On Exports A f ter t he completion of the upgradation process, the focus will shift to capacity expansion. The facility at Rajkot, which is (Left) Nitin Santoki, CEO, Galaxy Bearings (Right) Overview of Galaxy’s Rajkot facility the sole facility other European nations for the of Galaxy Bearings, is running at Chief Executive Officer, Galaxy purpose. The process will take almost maximum capacity. The Bearings, Nitin Santoki told around one year to complete. “In company plans to increase its Auto Monitor. China we will buy the machines capacity by at least three times, Santoki plans to put in an from the same source as that once the upgradation is done investment of around `20 crore of global giants, in order to get and the new machines have comin buying the machines. The the same quality of machines,” menced production. Though machines will be imported he added. there is no plan to venture into from countries like China and
new products. The company, which was established in 1990, manufactures cylindrical roller and taper roller bearings mainly for exports to Italy, Germany, Spain and Austria among others. It also exports to other Asian countries like Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. Around 50 percent of its revenue comes from exports. The company is also planning to expand its customer base in the export market.
Slowdown In Europe Talking about the slowdown in the European market Santoki explained, “The slowdown in the European market has not
Bearings assembled at Rajkot facility
affected us so much as we are supplying sizeable volumes to those markets. If my export volumes were too high, then we would have been affected. Also our focus on some products has helped in cushioning us against the slowdown.” It supplies to OEMs for manufacturing commercial vehicles,
The company plans to increase its capacity by at least three times, once the upgradation of the existing facility is implemented and the new machines have commenced production of cylindrical and taper roller bearings
both light and heavy and tractors. It major customers in the domestic and export markets are Escorts, BPW, Arvind Meritor (a company which manufactures axles), Terex Vectra among others. Galaxy Bearing is also a tier II supplier to Ashok Leyland and Tata Motors. The company which employs 200 permanent employees achieved a turnover of ` 50 crore in FY11 and intends to grow faster than the previous year and achieve a turnover target of ` 65 crore. The company was established by Santoki after he fi nished his education from Australia with the support of his family. It also supplies bearings to the machine tools industries apart from the automotive sector.
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Emissions grow in developing countries, India among top ten polluters W
hile the emissions of developing countries continued to grow in 2009 (+3.3 percent), led by Asia and the Middle East, the emissions of developed countries fell sharply (-6.5 percent), putting them at 6.4 percent below their 1990 collective level. It should be noted that 2009 emission levels for the group of countries participating in the Kyoto protocol were 14.7 percent below their 1990 level. Early indications suggest that CO2 emission trends in developing countries in 2010 will continue to increase through growing consumption of fossil fuels in some of the larger countries. The trend of emissions in developed countries will rebound in 2010 and CO2 emissions will likely be at a similar level to 2008, before the recent fi nancial crisis and the slowdown in economic activity. In the medium term, CO2 emissions are expected to rebound when economic conditions pick up. In its New Policies Scenario, the World Energy Outlook (WEO 2010)4 projects that world CO2 emissions from fuel combustion will continue to grow unabated, albeit at a lower rate, reaching 35.4 Gt CO2 by 2035. This is an improvement over the Current Policies Scenario of the WEO and is in line with the worst-case scenario presented by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)5 in the Fourth Assessment Report (2007), which projects a world average temperature increase of between 2.4°C and 6.4°C by 2100. In 2009, 43 percent of CO2 emissions from fuel combustion were produced from coal, 37 percent from oil and 20 percent from gas. Currently, coal is fi lling much of the growing energy demand of those developing countries, such as China and India, where energy-intensive industrial production is growing rapidly and large coal reserves exist with limited reserves of other energy sources. Without additional measures, Energy Technology Perspectives (ETP 2010) shows that intensified use of coal would substantially increase CO2 emissions unless there was a very widespread deployment of carbon capture and storage (CCS). Two-thirds of global emissions for 2009 originated from just ten countries, with the shares of China and the United States far surpassing those of all others. Combined, these two countries alone produced 12.0 Gt CO2, 41 percent of world CO2 emissions. Two sectors, electricity and heat generation and transport, pro-
duced nearly two-thirds of global CO2 emissions in 2009. Generation of electricity and heat was by far the largest producer of CO2 emissions and was responsible for 41 percent of the world CO2 emissions in global emissions. Countries such as Australia, China, India, Poland and South Africa produce between 68 percent and 94 percent of their electricity and heat through the combustion of coal. By 2035, the WEO 2010 projects that demand for electricity will be approximately three-quarters higher than current demand. This demand will be driven by rapid growth in population and income in developing countries, by the continuing increase in the number of electrical devices used in homes and commercial buildings, and by the growth in electrically driven industrial processes. Meanwhile, the share of renewables in total electricity generation rises from 19 percent in 2008 to 23 percent, 32 percent and 45 percent in the current policies, new policies and 450 scenarios, respectively. Transport, the second-largest sector, represented 23 percent of global CO2 emissions in 2009. CO2 emissions in this sector decreased between 2008 and 2009 by 1.7 percent. The United States has the highest level of passenger travel per capita in the world (more than 25,000 km per person per year). Until recently, lower fuel prices in the United States contributed to the use of larger vehicles, while in Europe higher fuel prices encouraged improved fuel economy (along with the EU voluntary agreement with manufacturers). As a result, there is more than a 50 percent variation in the average fuel consumption of new light-duty vehicles across OECD member countries. Global demand for transport appears unlikely to decrease in the foreseeable future; the WEO 2010 projects that transport fuel demand will grow by about 40 percent by 2035. To limit emissions from this sector, policy makers should first and foremost consider measures to encourage or require improved vehicle efficiency, as the United States has recently done, and the European Union is currently doing as a follow-up to the voluntary agreements. Policies that encourage a shift from cars to public transportation and to lower emission modes of transportation can also help. Finally, policies can encourage a shift to new, preferably low-carbon fuels. These include electricity (eg electric and plugin hybrid vehicles), hydrogen
(eg through the introduction of fuel cell vehicles) and greater use of biofuels (eg as a blend in gasoline and diesel fuel). To avoid a rebound in transport fuel demand, these moves must also be backed up by emissions pricing or fuel excise policies. These policies would both reduce the environmental impact of transport and help to secure domestic fuel supplies, which are sometimes unsettled by the threat of supply disruptions, whether from natural disasters, accidents or the geopolitics of oil trade. As these policies will ease demand growth, they are also likely to help reduce oil prices below what the prices might otherwise be. Indicators such as those briefly discussed in this section strongly reflect energy constraints and choices made to supply the economic activities of each country. They also reflect sectors that predominate in different countries’ economies. In 2009, the largest five emitters (China, the United States, India, the Russian Federation and Japan) comprised 45 percent of the total population and together produced 56 percent of the global CO2 emissions and 51 percent of the world gross domestic product (GDP). Although climate and other variables also affect energy use, relatively high values of emissions per GDP indicate a potential for decoupling CO2 emissions from economic growth. Among the five largest emitters of CO2 in 2009, China, the Russian Federation and the United States have significantly reduced their CO2 emissions per unit of GDP between 1990 and 2009. The other two countries, India and Japan, already had much lower emissions per GDP. Worldwide, the highest levels of emissions per GDP are observed for the oil and gas exporting region of the Middle East and for the relatively energy-intensive. Economies in transition EITs9. China emissions per GDP have fallen close to the level of the United States. As compared to emissions per unit of GDP, the range of per capita emission levels across the world is even larger, highlighting wide divergences in the way different countries and regions use energy. In 2009, the United States alone generated 18 percent of world CO2 emissions, despite a population of less than five percent of the global total. Conversely, China contributed a comparable share of world emissions (24 percent) while accounting for 20 percent of the world population. India, with 17 percent of world population, con-
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tributed more than five percent of the CO2 emissions. Among the five largest emitters, the levels of per capita emissions were very diverse, ranging from 1 t of CO2 per capita for India and 5 t for China to 17 t for the United States. Industrialised countries emit far larger amounts of CO2 per capita than the world average. However, some rapidly expanding economies are significantly increasing their emissions per capita. For example, between 1990 and 2009, among the top fi ve emitting countries, China increased its per capita emissions by over two and a half times and India doubled them. Clearly, these two countries contributed much to the 8 percent increase of global per capita emissions over the period. Conversely, both the Russian Federation and the United States decreased their per capita emissions significantly, by 27 percent and 13 percent respectively, over the same period.
India’s Profile India emits more than fi ve percent of global CO2 emissions, and emissions continue to grow. CO2 emissions have almost tripled between 1990 and 2009. The WEO 2010 New Policies Scenario projects that CO2 emissions in India will increase by almost 2.5 times between 2008 and 2035. A large share of these emissions are produced by the electricity and heat sector, which represented 54 percent of CO2 in 2009, up from 40 percent in 1990. CO2 emissions in the transport sector accounted for only nine percent of total emissions in 2009, but transport is one of the fastest growing sectors. In 2009, 69 percent of electricity in India came from coal, another
12 percent from natural gas and 3 percent from oil. The share of fossil fuels in the generation mix grew from 73 percent in 1990 to 85 percent in 2002. The share of fossil fuels has declined steadily since then, falling to 81 percent in 2006, although increasing back up to 84 percent in 2009. Although electricity produced from hydro has actually risen during this period, the share fell from 25 percent in 1990 to 12 percent in 2009. India is promoting the addition of other renewable power sources into its generation mix and had an installed capacity of 17 GW of renewable energy sources on 30 June 2010. Under its National Action Plan on climate change, India plans to install 20 GW of solar power by 2020. With an installed wind capacity of 12 GW in June 2010, India has the world’s fifth-largest installed capacity of wind power. Of the BRICS countries, India has the lowest CO2 emissions per capita (1.4 t CO2 in 2009), about one third that of the world average. However, due to the recent large increases in emissions, the Indian ratio is more than two times that of its ratio in 1990 and will continue to grow. India’s per capita emissions in 2035 will, however, still be well below those in the OECD member countries today. In terms of CO2/GDP, India has continuously improved the efficiency of its economy and reduced the CO2 emissions per unit of GDP by 16 percent between 1990 and 2009. India aims to further reduce emissions intensity of GDP by 20-25 percent by 2020 compared with the 2005 level. (Extracts: ‘CO2 emissions from fuel combustion’ - International Energy Agency )
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Rane TRW Steering wins quality recognition Our Bureau Mumbai
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ane TRW Steering System (RTSS) has bagged Japan Quality Medal (JQM) from the Union of Japanese Scientists and Engineers (JUSE) recently. The JQM win marks a glorious new chapter in RTSSL’s journey towards sustaining its vision of being the number one manufacturer of hydraulic power steering systems in India. RTSSL now joins the elite group of two other companies from India and 21 companies world over who have previously won this prestigious and the highest award in Total Quality Management (TQM). It is also the fi rst company to have won this award since 2007. The company had earlier won the Deming Application Prize
The Japan Quality Medal
in 2005. It is the only company manufacturing hydraulic power steering systems to achieve the distinction of winning both the Deming Prize and Japanese Quality Medal (JQM). On winning the prestigious JQM, Chairman, Rane Group,
L Ganesh, said, “This is indeed a great moment of pride and joy for each and every one in the Rane group. The TQM journey which started in the year 2000 has gained greater momentum with the winning of this award. This is a new benchmark for the other group companies.” Acknowledging the award, Managing Director, Rane TRW Steering Systems, Harish Lakshman, said, “The award is the result of the intense and consistent focus on fulfi lling the customer’s needs and aspirations, by each and every employee of RTSSL. The JQM catapults RTSSL to a new league altogether and marks another step in its journey
RTSSL now joins the elite group of two other companies from India and 21 companies world over who have previously won this prestigious award in Total Quality Management (TQM). It is also the first company to have won this award since 2007
towards Excellence.” Rane TRW is a 50:50 joint venture between Rane Group,
and TRW. USA. It is one of the global leaders in hydraulic power steering systems in India. It manufactures hydraulic power steering gears and vane pumps and reservoirs. Established in 1987, the company supplies hydraulic power steering space in India with an annual turnover of around `500 crores for the year 20102011. The company caters to a wide spectrum of OEMs such as Tata Motors (Passenger Cars and Heav y Commercial vehicles), Ashok Leyland, Daimler India Commercial Vehicles, Volvo-Eicher, A sia Motor Works, Mahindra & Mahindra, Renault India, Ford Motors, Hy undai Motors, Fiat India and others. The company has brought in high pressure steering gear technology (THP series gears) from TRW to meet the growing needs of the emerging commercialvehiclemarketinIndia.
Japan Quality Medal The Japan Quality Medal is acclaimed as the highest award given to a company following Total Quality Management (TQM) practices. It recognises improvements in overall Quality and achievement of excellence in business processes and results. The award was established in October 1969 in Tokyo to commemorate the first International Conference on Quality Control (ICQC). Till date, only 21 companies have won this prestigious award world over.
Animated pooja captures innovative spirit Our Bureau Chennai
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mployees at Hy undai Motor India made a show during the recent Ayudhya Puja celebrations held at their factory in Sriperambudur, near Chennai recently. Crafted from factory waste, employees competed with their colleagues across f loors, in a display of skill and creativity. They used their technical know how to make animated decorations, much like professional innovations. One team housed the deity inside a massive Shivalingam, which opened to reveal the goddess at a touch of a button, similar to Alladin’s cave, while another replicated a temple in Mahabalipuram and used an automated arati synchronised to the chants of the mantras. Another team replicated the famous lotus temple, while another based their deity in a rocket launcher which took off when the puja started. It was also an occasion which displayed immense bonding amongst Indian employees and their Korean counterparts. MD, HMIL, HW Park visited each shopf loor and congratulated the workers on their creativity and enthusiasm. The members of the Korean senior management participated with gusto. The workers said that they felt encouraged by the management which not just respected the religious sentiments of the employees but also encouraged them to express their creativity.
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Mann Hummel Group develops valve to cut emissions
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he automotive supplier of fi lter systems for the air and fluid management of the engine, primarily for passenger car OEMs, Mann Hummel Group, has developed products which will help reduce carbon-dioxide (CO2) and nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions. It has also developed a water separator system which can help in reducing the water content, thereby purifying the fuel in highly developed common rail diesel injection systems. To reduce CO2 emissions, the company has developed an electronically-controlled thermal management valve that separately regulates up to three cooling water circuits. It can reduce CO2 emissions by two to three grams per kilometer and can help OEMs achieve Euro VI standards. The new valve, which is known as the Active Cooling Thermo
Thermo-diesel particulate filter
management Valve (ACT valve), controls up to three cooling water circuits independently of each other and in any combination. It can also help in regulating water flow between the cooling unit, cabin heating and engine
at any operating point and in any demand-driven combination. The ACT valve is controlled by Engine Management System (EMS). The valve also has a short reaction time than passive solutions and can control the temperature
of the coolant precisely depending on the driving conditions. The electronic drive controls the lift valves via cam disks and regulates the individual cooling water circuits. The water flow then is subtly controlled and the water circuits in the cooling system are reliably sealed off from each other under high pressure. The switching unit is very compact and can be easily integrated into tight engine compartments. In order to reduce NOx emissions, the company has developed a f low-optimised air/exhaust mixer for low-pressure exhaust gas recirculation, which is more efficient than the high-pressure exhaust gas recirculation has been in use. The exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) system feeds the combustion chamber with a mixture of cooled exhaust gas and normal
intake air, which absorbs some of the combustion heat. This avoids the local combustion temperature peaks responsible for the formation of nitrogen oxides and reduces the level of nitrogen oxide emissions. The system can work with a wide range of engine loads. They use the exhaust gases downstream from the turbocharger and diesel particle fi lter and therefore remove less exhaust energy from the turbocharger than high-pressure EGR systems. The company has also developed a multi-stage water separator. The system increases the purity of fuel required in highly-developed common rail diesel injection systems by lowering the water content. Diesel contains impurities like dirt particles and water droplets. When used as fuel by high-pressure injection systems of modern diesel engines units, these impurities need to be separated. The water droplets that build up as the fuel passes through the system still only have an average diameter of a few micrometers. To achieve the required purity for finely dispersed water-in-diesel emulsions, it has developed a three-stage water separator that first enlarges the droplets before reliably separating them from the fuel. The water separator works in three stages. In the fi rst stage, the small emulsified droplets of water in the fuel accumulates on fi ne coalescing fi lter medium. During the second stage, the volume of water is enlarged via downstream coalescer layers. The water separator is arranged in such a way that the gravity helps in the separation process. In the third fi ltration stage, the hydrophobic sieve present in the separator fi lters the remaining water content acting as the fi nal barrier for the water droplets.
To reduce CO2 emissions, the company has developed a thermal management valve that regulates up to three cooling water circuits. This way, it can help OEMs achieve Euro VI standards
This system is currently being used on prototypes and is being validated via field tests. The learnings are also being used for test standards for the qualification of water-diesel separators and directly into customer projects for water-diesel separation. It can be of consequence for future fi lter sizes and shapes as well as service intervals. The German manufacturer specialises in fi lter systems like air fi lter systems, intake manifold systems, liquid fi lter systems, cabin fi lters and cylinder head covers made of plastic with many integrated functions for the automotive industry, as well as fi lter elements for vehicle servicing and repair. Apart from the automotive industry, it also manufactures several products for general engineering, process engineering and industrial manufacturing sectors.
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Lanxess strengthens commitment to Brazilian auto sector
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anxess is strengthening its commitment to Brazil with three major new investments totaling roughly Eur 30 million, which will create more than 100 jobs. The investments will support the growing trend toward green mobility in the Latin American country. Lanxess’ high-tech materials will offer innovative solutions to the growing local automotive market. “We are making major investments that will ensure that we participate in the current and future success of the Brazilian economy,” said Lanxess Chairman of the board, Axel C Heitmann ahead of the company’s fi rst Automotive Day in Brazil that was held on 6 October, 2011. “Brazil plays a key role in our company’s BRICS-strategy and our business.”
Delegates at an event on Automotive Day
Booming Brazilian industry The three investments include the construction of two new plants at Lanxess’ Porto Feliz site in the State of São Paulo. One is for the production of the high-tech engineering plastics durethan and pocan—used primarily by
the automotive industry to make cars lighter and more fuel efficient. The new plant, which will be run by the business unit SemiCrystalline Products, will have an initial capacity of 20,000 metric tonne per year. The plant will go on stream in the middle of 2013.
The second new Porto Feliz plant will produce the rubber additive Rhenogran as well as Rhenoshape curing bladders. The Rhenogran pre-dispersed rubber additive can significantly improve the quality and durability of a rubber product, while Rhenoshape bladders are used by the tyre industry to give tyres their fi nal shape and properties. The plant will be run by Lanxess’ subsidiary, Rhein Chemie, based in Mannheim, Germany. It will have an output of 2,000 metric tonne per year of rubber additives and produce 170,000 bladders per year. The plant will start in the fourth quarter of 2012. “We will turn our Porto Feliz site into a major specialty chemicals hub with the latest technology,” said Heitmann. Lanxess is already successfully operating a modern
plant for inorganic pigments in Porto Feliz.
First Bio-Based Rubber The third investment involves what Lanxess claims is a “pioneering move to use bio-based raw materials in the production of synthetic rubber”. Lanxess is re-engineering parts of its plant in Triunfo, Rio Grande do Sul, to produce EPDM rubber from bio-based ethylene. The Brazilian company, Braskem SA, will supply the ethylene, derived from sugarcane, by pipeline by November 2011. This represents the world’s fi rst production of biobased EPDM rubber, which will be named Keltan Eco. A quarter of the 40,000 metric tonne annual capacity at the Triunfo plant is earmarked for Keltan Eco. “The use of bio-based raw materials to produce synthetic rubber at the Triunfo plant is Lanxess’ commitment to green chemistry,” said Heitmann.
More ‘Green Tyres’ Lanxess produces high-performance synthetic rubbers for ‘Green Tyres’—the fastest growing sector in the tyre industry, with an annual growth rate of about 10 percent. Demand is being driven by the megatrend mobility as well as motorists calling for higher environmental and safety standards. In addition, demand will be accelerated by tyre legislation in the European Union, which aims to reduce CO2 and noise emissions by promoting ‘Green Tyres’ that do not compromise on safety. Corresponding legislation has also been passed in South Korea. In order to meet this demand, the company is expanding its global capacities for high-performance rubbers used in ‘Green Tyres’, including those at its Brazilian sites. It has been implementing a capacity expansion at its production facility for neodymium polybutadiene rubber (Nd-PBR) in Cabo de Santo Agostinho, Pernambuco. It will complete the expansion by the end of 2011, doubling capacity to 40,000 metric tonne per year. Also, it has upgraded technology at the plant at its Nd-PBR plants in Germany and the US. Nd-PBR is used in the treads and sidewalls of ‘Green Tyres’. It helps reduce the energy consumption or rolling resistance of a tyre.
Technology Upgrades Lanxess has already initiated a feasibility study to implement new technology in order to switch production of emulsion styrenebutadiene rubber (ESBR) used in standard tyres to solution styrene butadiene rubber (SSBR) used in ‘Green Tyres’ at Triunfo. The current capacity for ESBR in Triunfo is 110,000 metric tonne per year and the switch would potentially require a medium-size, doubledigit million EUR amount. A fi nal decision will be made mid-2012. ‘Green Tyres’ can reach their peak performance with formulations containing both SSBR and Nd-PBR.
Brazil Growth Story These latest investments are part of Lanxess’ growing presence in Brazil. The German company that purchased Petroflex in 2008 hag grown from 400 employees to 1,000 workers and is one of the largest chemical companies in Brazil.
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Bosch marks 125 years; to invest Euro 50 million B osch is set to celebrate 125 years of its existence by staging roughly 850 activities worldwide in 2011 to mark the 125th anniversary of the company and the 150th anniversary of the company founder’s birth. The aim was to compare present shifts in society, technology and thought, with those of the past and to draw inspiration for the future from them. The company has marked its anniversary this year by investing Euro 50 million in an international university development programme. A Berlin conference organised recently as part of the anniversary was on ‘Courage, Curiosity, And Change In Times Of Upheaval’ in the Friedrichstadt-Palast in Berlin. The subject matter of the conference traced an arc from the 19th to the 21st century. The focus of the conference was to place the connection between education, technological progress, and economic development in a historical context. The event was attended by guests from politics, business and culture. President of Bundestag, Norbert Lammert and Minister-President of Baden-Württemberg, Winfried Kretschmann, spoke about the challenges facing politics, business and society. Other prominent participants and speakers included philosopher Rüdiger Safranski, Chairman, German Historians’ Association, Werner Plumpe, and Chairman of the Bosch board of management, Franz Fehrenbach. Fehrenbach’s main concern is to exchange views with partners from different areas of society. Following their presentations, Director, Berlin International Film Festival Dieter Kosslik, was reported to have facilitated a discussion among the speakers. In his keynote presentation, Franz Fehrenbach outlined the major challenges of the present, while keeping an eye on the past. He described Robert Bosch as someone who upheld liberal and pan-European views at a time when Germany had severed its ties to its neighbouring countries. He felt, “More democracy and more Europe, not less.” In his view, European unity has for far too long appeared to be a foregone conclusion, something for the elite. Now it is becoming more than clear that “what happens in one country affects every other country.” Fehrenbach called for a return to a democratically mandated path of European development: “We have to fight for European unity.” Fehrenbach also saw technological changes, such as the move to renewable energy, as a source of opportunity. However, fundamental decisions such as these, which affect infrastructure, call for persistence and stamina. In taking these measures, it is, he said, especially important not to neglect the issue of energy efficiency. More specifically, he called for increased subsidies for work to improve the energy efficiency of buildings. He pointed out that buildings still account for some 40 percent of the primary energy consumed in Germany. “This is one of the biggest levers for more energy effi ciency and climate protection—a lever that must not be left unused,” he added.
The company has marked its anniversary this year by investing Euro 50 million in an international university development programme
(L-R) Dr Werner Plumpe, Dr Norbert Lammert, Dieter Kosslick, Franz Fehrenbach, Winfried Kretschmann and Rüdiger Safranski
The Bosch Group is a leading global supplier of technology and services. In the areas of automotive and industrial technology, consumer goods, and building technology, some 285,000 associates generated sales of Euro 47.3 billion in fi scal 2010. For 2011, the company forecasts sales of
more than Euro 50 billion and a headcount of 300,000 by the end of the year. The Bosch Group comprises Robert Bosch and its more than 350 subsidiaries and regional companies in over 60 countries. If its sales and service partners are included, then Bosch is represented in roughly
150 countries. This worldwide development, ma nu fact u ring, and sales network is the foundation for further growth. Bosch spent Euro 3.8 billion for research and development in 2010, and applied for over 3,800 patents worldwide. The company was set up in
Stuttgart in 1886 by Robert Bosch (1861-1942) as a “Workshop for Precision Mecha nics a nd Electrical Engineering.” The special ownership structure of Robert Bosch GmbH guarantees the entrepreneurial freedom of the Bosch Group, making it possible for the company to plan over the long term and to underta ke sig nif ica nt up-f ront investments in the safeguarding of its future. Ninety-two percent of the share capital of Robert Bosch GmbH is held by Robert Bosch Stiftung GmbH, a charitable foundation. The majority of voting rights are held by Robert Bosch Industrietreuhand KG, an industrial trust. The entrepreneurial ownership functions are carried out by the trust. The remaining shares are held by the Bosch family and by Robert Bosch GmbH.
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Ltd...........................................+91-124-3207398 ...........................sales@padminiengg.com ........................................ www.padminivna.com 28 ..............Rajamane Industries Pvt Ltd ......................................................+91-80-43659000 ..........................coolantpump@rajamane.com ................................ www.rajamane.com 7 ................Safexpress Private Limited .........................................................+1800-113-113 ...............................suyash.srivastava@safexpress.com ......................... www.safexpress.com 8 ................Schoeller Arca Time Materials Handling Solutions .....................+91-22-42119500...........................sales@satmhs.com .................................................. www.satmhs.com 21...............Schuler India Pvt Ltd ..................................................................+91-22-66800300 ..........................info@schularindia.com ........................................... www.schulergroup.com 10...............Sreelakshmi Traders ...................................................................+91-44-24343343 ..........................sreelakshmitraders@gmail.com.............................. www.sreelakshmitraders.com 22 ..............TAGMA ........................................................................................+91-22-28526876 ..........................mumbai@tagmaindia.org ....................................... www.tagmaindia.org 29 ..............Tata Motors Ltd...........................................................................+91-22-66561866 ..........................charu.gulati@tatamotors.com ................................ www.tatamotors.com 15...............The Indian Electric Co.................................................................+91-20-24475845 ..........................iecmktg@indianelectric.com .................................. www.indianelectric.com 41...............The Supreme Industries Limited ................................................+91-9892569003 ...........................protec@supreme.co.in ............................................ www.supreme.co.in 12...............Time Technoplast Limited ..........................................................+91-22-42119500...........................3sautocomponent@gmail.com ............................... www.timetechnoplast.com 25 ..............Yamazaki Mazak India Pvt Ltd ...................................................+91-2137-668800 ..........................sudhir_patankar@mazakindia.com ........................ www.mazak.com 20 ..............Yaskawa Robotics India Ltd ........................................................+91-124-4758500 ..........................simranjeetsingh@motoman.co.in ........................... www.motoman.com
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Products .......................................................... Pg. No.
Products .......................................................... Pg. No.
Products .......................................................... Pg. No.
11th Auto Expo’2012...................................................36
Compaction & concreting equipment. .......................31
Laser systems .............................................................21
5c indexers .................................................................13
Compression springs ..................................................3
Lightweight diesel engines ........................................31
Abb motors eff 1 ........................................................15
Connecting rods .........................................................16
Lightweight petrol......................................................31
Acc. Padel sensor assy. ...............................................35
Connectors .................................................................16
Logistics services ........................................................7
ADEA - automotive dealership excellence awards......26
Conventional and mono block pumps .......................28
Material handling solutions .......................................8
Aluminium processing ...............................................21
Coolant accessories ....................................................28
Metal cutting tools .....................................................37
Aluminum ..................................................................16
Coolant pumps ...........................................................28
Milling cutters ............................................................BIC
Auto mation mfrs .......................................................13
Copper ........................................................................16
Modular tooling system .............................................BIC
Automation ................................................................4
Countersinks ..............................................................BIC
Multistage ( high pressure ) pumps ............................28
Automobile parts .......................................................10
Cutting machines .......................................................4
Packaging solutions ...................................................8
Automotive products .................................................11
Cylindrical grinders ....................................................1
Pbegl geared motors ..................................................15
Bbl brake moters........................................................15
Diamond tools............................................................BIC
Bbl/kec flame proof motors .......................................15
Diesel engines (10-1000hp) ........................................31
Bearings .....................................................................16
Diesel/kerosene engines. Power sprayer....................31
Bicycle components & assemblies .............................16
Drilling tools...............................................................BIC
Billet shearing machines ............................................17
Driver interface ..........................................................6
Blanking lines.............................................................21
E-coatings solutions ...................................................FIC
Brass ...........................................................................16
Egr valve .....................................................................35
Building automation ..................................................4
Electric motor lamination systems.............................21
Buses ..........................................................................29
electrical/electronic architecture ...............................6
C frame power press ..................................................17
Electronic control unit ...............................................35
Cable carriers .............................................................16
Exhibition - Acmee .....................................................34
Cable connectors........................................................16
Exhibition - Imtex Forming 2012................................32
Cam shaft holders ......................................................16
Exhibition - Tagma .....................................................22
Ced/ktl coatings .........................................................FIC
Exhibition -Engineering Expo .....................................42
Chains.........................................................................16
Extension springs .......................................................3
CNC .............................................................................33
Factory automation....................................................4
CNC cutting machines ................................................4
Flange mounting b5/b35 motors................................15
CNC hmcs ...................................................................33
Forged ........................................................................16
CNC laser cutting machines........................................4
Forging press ..............................................................17
CNC lathe ....................................................................1,13,BC
Friction drop hammers ..............................................17
CNC machines ............................................................33
Friction screw press ...................................................17
CNC oval turning centers ............................................33
General engineering...................................................16
CNC oxy fuel cutting machine ....................................4
Gun drills ....................................................................BIC
CNC plasma cutting machines ....................................4
H frame power press ..................................................17
CNC turn mill centers .................................................33
Hammers....................................................................17
CNC turning center .....................................................33
High discharge (flooding type ) pumps ......................28
CNC turning centers....................................................BC
Hmc horizontal spindle..............................................13
CNC vertical machining center ...................................33
Hollow bars ................................................................23
CNC/vmc machines.....................................................25
Horizontal CNC machines...........................................33
Coating machines .......................................................4
Horizontal machining center .....................................33
Coating plants ............................................................4
Hvac parts ..................................................................16
Turrets ........................................................................1
Coating systems ..........................................................4
hybrid & electric vehicle products .............................6
Vaccum pump ............................................................35
Commercial vehicles ..................................................9,29
Hydroforming .............................................................21
Ventilators ..................................................................10
Imaging & vision systems ...........................................4
Vertical line series ......................................................33
infotainment ..............................................................6
Vertical machining centers.........................................1
Instrumentation & controls .......................................27
Vmc vertical machines ...............................................13
Kec ac motors .............................................................15
Vmc/hmc machines....................................................43
Kec dc motors ............................................................15
Vmc-linear series ........................................................33
Kec slipring crane duty motors ..................................15
Wire forms ..................................................................3
Powder matallergy products......................................10 Power chucking cylinders ..........................................1 Power tiller .................................................................31 powertrain systems ....................................................6 Protective packaging and cushioning solutions .........41 Pumpsets and power reapers ....................................31 Rainflaps ....................................................................12 Reamers .....................................................................BIC Robotics .....................................................................20 Rotary tables ..............................................................13 safety electronics .......................................................6 Self adhesive tapes .....................................................10 sensors .......................................................................6 Sheet metal frming ....................................................21 Siemens motors efi 1 ..................................................15 Silicon carbide based particulate filters.....................39 Solid carbide drills .....................................................37 Solid carbide drills with ic ..........................................37 Solid carbide mills......................................................37 Solid carbide reamers ................................................37 Solid carbide reamers with ic.....................................37 Solid carbide special drills .........................................37
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Solid carbide special mills..........................................37 Solid carbide special reamers ....................................37 solid oxide fuel cell technolgy....................................6 Spray suppression system ..........................................12 Stainless steel gear parts ............................................10 Taps ............................................................................BIC thermal ......................................................................6 Torsion springs ...........................................................3 Transmission gears .....................................................10
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International auto round-up Continental to invest $500 mn for tyre facility in North America Continental is planning to set up a new tyre plant in Sumter, South Carolina to meet growing demand from both the retail and automotive manufacturers. The fi rst phase of production capacity at the plant in this project is expected to be nearly fi ve million passenger and light truck tyres when the plant reaches full production levels in 2017. In the second phase, the plant’s capacity is expected go up to eight million units per year by 2021. Altogether, those initial phases of the project involve an investment of more than $500 million and the creation of more than 1,600 jobs. CTA’s (Continental Tyres Americas) business growth is highlighted by an annual growth rate of 20 percent in volume for the passenger and light truck tire business in the Americas region in the past two years. Continental expects to begin construction of the facility in mid-2012 and complete the facility in 2013. In addition to the Greenfield announcement, CTA also announced an investment of more than $four million in its Lancaster County, South Carolina headquarters to help meet the needs of a growing workforce. The headquarters employs nearly 350 people. In March 2011, CTA already announced a $220 million investment to expand production capacity at its tyre plant located in Camaçari, Bahia, Brazil. The investment will create 400 new jobs and double capacity in the plant. In May 2011, the company announced that it was investing $224 million, and adding 444 new jobs, in its Mt Vernon tyre plant. Another element of the CTA growth strategy, this investment will increase capacity by nearly four million tyres at Mt Vernon. Continental is a leading supplier of brake systems, systems and components for powertrains and chassis, instrumentation, infotainment solutions, vehicle electronics, tires and technical elastomers with sales of Euro 26 billion in 2010. The company has approximately 160,000 employees in 45 countries.
Visteon announces management changes Visteon recently announced the appointment of Martin E Welch III as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer and elevated him to its board of directors effective October. Welch has held several financial management positions with both private and public companies, most recently as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for United Rentals in Greenwich. Welch reports to Visteon Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President, Donald Stebbins. As a member of Visteon’s global leadership team, Welch is responsible for the company’s financial operations including treasury, tax, audit and investor relations. He will also be responsible for the company’s mergers, acquisitions and divestiture activity. He replaces William G Quigley III, who is leaving Visteon this month. Welch also served as chairman of the audit committee for Delphi Corporation from 20062009. Earlier in his career, he
served as Chief Financial Officer at both Kmart Corporation and Federal-Mogul Corporation and held various fi nancial positions at Chrysler Corporation. He has a bachelor’s degree in accounting and an MBA from the University of Detroit Mercy and is a member of the university’s board of trustees. Also during its annual review process, the board selected next year’s lead director and committee chairs. Kevin Dowd was selected to serve as the company’s lead independent director. In addition, the board also appointed Harry Wilson as chair of the finance and corporate strategy committee, Duncan Cocroft as chair of the audit commit-
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Daimler Trucks kicks off Fuso Canter facility in Portugal Daimler Trucks’ Fuso Canter brand kicked off the delivery of the brand from Tramagal facility in Portugal. The Fuso Canter is in process of achieving leading position from Daimler truck portfolio with over 150,000 units sold every year worldwide. The Canter is delivered into more than 30 European countries from the Tramagal plant in Portugal. The truck brand features Duonic six-speed dual clutch transmission, the fi rst dual clutch transmission available in a truck. The Canter design boasts efficiency, comfort and variety: three weight classes, three cab models, three load levels, two transmission alternatives, right- and left-hand drive and a variety of wheelbases.
The Fuso Canter from Tramagal is a truck that has been developed in Japan and built in Europe. In terms of value, approximately 50 percent of its parts come from more than 90 European suppliers, such as the engine, axle components, springs, brakes, tyres, headlamps and lights as well as seats
and extensive interior panelling. Fuso mainly contributes tool-intensive parts for the cab and frame from Japan, as well as axle parts, steering wheel, the heating and air conditioning systems, as well as the Duonic dual clutch transmission. Since production of the Canter started in 1980, approximately 160,000 vehicles have been manufactured at Tramagal. Today, they are exported to countries across Europe and Israel. The company grounds cover an area of 110,000 sq mts, only a third of which is currently developed.
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International auto round-up Contd. from 41 tee, Mark Hogan as chair of the organisation and compensation committee and Herbert Henkel as chair of the corporate governance and nominating committee. The company also selected Goldman Sachs Group and the Rothschild Group as fi nancial advisors. Visteon is a leading global automotive supplier that designs, engineers and manufactures climate, electronic, interior and lighting products for vehicle manufacturers. With corporate offices in Van Buren Township, Michigan, Shanghai, China and Chelmsford, the UK, the company has facilities in 26 countries and employs approximately 26,700 people.
JCI buys Saft’s share of battery JV Johnson Controls has completed an agreement to buy out Saft Groupe SA’s share of their joint venture to produce lithium-ion batteries. The US-based battery supplier will pay Saft $145 million for its share of Johnson Controls-Saft. Johnson Controls will retain control of the venture’s new plant in Holland, Michigan in the US, while Saft will take over its plant in Nersac, France, at the end of 2012. In May, both companies voiced disagreements on the direction of the joint venture, but Saft opposed the split, saying it had suggested a number of compromises to Johnson Controls. The joint venture was established in 2006 to develop and produce lithiumion batteries. Johnson Controls manufactures car interiors and batteries for automobiles and hybrid vehicles. The French company Saft specialises in producing industrial nickel-cadmium batteries. Its lithium-ion batteries have mainly targeted industrial or military users, rather than the automotive market.
Suits against auto parts suppliers Three class-action lawsuits have been fi led against several major auto suppliers, alleging the companies engaged in a ‘massive decade-long conspiracy to unlawfully fi x and artificially raise the prices of wire harness systems. The suits, fi led by three vehicle owners on behalf of millions of others, argue the higher prices raised the price of new vehicles, harming tens of millions of new car buyers. The suits also seek the return of ill-gotten profits to car buyers. The suits filed in the US District Court in Detroit name Troy-based Delphi Automotive, Southfield-based Lear, Furukawa Electric, Leoni, Sumitomo Electric Industries, S-Y Systems Technologies, Yazaki Corp and its North American unit based in Canton Township. Automotive wire harness systems are electrical distribution systems used to direct and control electrical components, wiring and circuit boards—and represents a multi-billion-dollar annual business. The suits note the US Justice Department, European Union and Japan have been investigating the market for wire harness systems since at least February 2010. The FBI conducted raids of some auto supplier offices in Michigan. Recently Furukawa said it would
plead guilty to price fi xing and pay a $200 million fi ne as part of a federal settlement. Furukawa, a Tokyo-based supplier of automotive wire harnesses, agreed to settle as part of the government’s criminal price-fi xing and bid-rigging investigation. Three executives, who are Japanese nationals, have agreed to plead guilty and to serve prison time in the US ranging from a year and a day to 18 months. According to four separate onecount felony charges fi led last month in US District Court in Detroit, Furukawa and its executives engaged in a conspiracy to rig bids and to fix, stabilise and maintain the prices of automotive wire harnesses and related products sold to automakers in the US and around the world.
Chrysler plans $165 million body shop at Michigan Chrysler plans to invest $165 million to build a new one million square foot body shop at its assembly plant in Sterling Heights, Michigan. The body shop will begin producing Chrysler’s next generation of mid-size sedans in 2013, said Ch r ysler spokeswoma n Jodi Tinson. The plant currently builds Chrysler’s two mid-size sedans: the Chrysler 200 and Dodge Avenger. The announcement marks the second major investment in the Sterling Heights plant. This follows an announcement in December 2010 that the company would spend nearly $850 million to build a new paint shop for the plant. Chrysler Group has now
invested nearly $3.5 billion in its US plants since June 2009.
of the most advanced in the industry.
Comeback Story
Repurposing To Win
To some Chrysler employees, the Sterling Heights factory has come to symbolise the company’s comeback story. Before Chrysler’s 2009 bankruptcy, previous owners Cerberus Capital Management had decided to close the Sterling Heights plant. However, Chrysler CEO Sergio Marchionne changed course and decided to keep it open. The vehicles will be built on a Fiat front-drive platform adapted for the US market. The investment includes the construction of the new body shop as well as the installation of equipment and conveyors that will be some
Tinson said the new body shop would replace the factory’s current body shop, which will be “repurposed” for another use. There will be no net gain in terms of jobs, she said. Sterling Heights now employs 2,524 workers on two shifts. The plant investment was not mentioned specifically in the automaker’s recent tentative contract with the UAW—which the rank-and-fi le is in the process of ratifying. It was not immediately clear if the project was grouped in with $1.3 billion in “additional investment” in various US plants as outlined in the tentative contract.
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SIAM DATA
FLASH REPORT (MEDIA) REPORT II
Source: SIAM
Category Segment/Subsegment Manufacturer.
Production For the month of September 2010
2011
Cumulative April-September 10-11
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Domestic Sales For the month of Cumulative September April-September 2010
I Passenger Vehicles (PVs) A : Passengers Cars - Upto 5 Seats Micro: Seats Upto-4, Length Normally <3200 mm, Body Style-Hatchback, Engine Displacement Normally upto 0.8 Litre Regular: Tata Motors Ltd (Nano) 5,696 3,003 35,698 29,484 5,520 Total 5,696 3,003 35,698 29,484 5,520 Micro: Seats Upto-5, Length Normally <3600 mm, Body Style-Hatchback, Engine Displacement Normally upto 1.0 Litre Regular: General Motors India Pvt Ltd (Spark) 2,584 808 16,547 15,305 2,415 Hyundai Motors India Ltd(Santro) 11,778 15,106 61,796 69,680 6,451 Maruti Suzuki India Ltd (M800, Alto,Wagon R,A-Star) 60,852 32,105 324,976 289,158 48,780 Total 75,214 48,019 403,319 374,143 57,646 Compact: Seats Upto-5, Length Normally 3600-4000 mm, Body Style-Sedan/Estate/Hatch/Notchback, Engine Displacement Normally upto 1.4 Litre Regular: Fiat India Automobiles Pvt Ltd (Palio, Grande Punto) 933 853 7,014 7,149 926 Ford india Pvt Ltd (Figo ) 6,711 7,092 43,219 45,925 6,465 General Motors India Pvt Ltd (Beat, U-VA) 2,974 4,455 19,851 24,835 3,026 Honda Siel Cars India ltd (Jazz) 180 1,077 856 1,677 649 Hyundai Motors India Ltd(Getz, i10, i20) 37,564 31,841 205,868 204,512 22,114 Maruti Suzuki India Ltd (Swift, Ritz, Estilo) 23,118 20,025 135,988 105,925 21,749 Nissan Motor India Pvt Ltd (Micra) 5,792 10,320 10,140 59,540 1,183 SkodaAuto india p.ltd ( Fabia ) 262 1,546 2,838 10,097 256 Tata Motors Ltd (Indica,Indica Vista, Indigo CS) 14,178 16,880 86,311 76,475 11,215 Toyota Kirloskar Motor Pvt Ltd (Liva) 0 3,284 0 9,623 0 Volkswagen India Pvt Ltd (Polo) 2,995 1,842 12,250 24,375 2,891 Total 94,707 99,215 524,335 570,133 70,474 Super Compact: Seats Upto-5, Length Normally 4000-4250 mm, Body Style-Sedan/Estate/Hatch/Notchback, Engine Displacement Normally upto 1.6 Litre Regular: Hyundai Motors India Ltd (Accent) 3,293 3,232 17,415 19,435 1,352 Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd (Verito) 1,045 1,928 5,118 9,319 1,000 Maruti Suzuki India Ltd (Dzire) 8,814 9,543 51,075 45,305 8,566 Toyota Kirloskar Motor Pvt Ltd (Etios-Sedan) 0 3,380 0 23,825 0 Total 13,152 18,083 73,608 97,884 10,918 Super Compact: Seats Upto-5, Length Normally 4000-4250 mm, Body Style-Sedan/Estate/Hatch/Notchback, Engine Displacement Normally upto 1.6 Litre Specialty: Volkswagen India Pvt Ltd (Beetle) 0 0 0 0 38 Total 0 0 0 0 38 Mid-Size: Seats Upto-5, Length Normally 4250-4500 mm, Body Style-Sedan/Estate/Hatch/Notchback, Engine Displacement Normally upto 1.6 Litre Regular: Ford India Pvt Ltd (Ford ikon,Fiesta Classic) 2,120 2,233 9,681 10,404 1,633 General Motors India Pvt Ltd (Aveo) 304 93 2,212 772 323 Hindustan Motors Ltd (Lancer) 25 53 394 203 32 Honda Siel Cars India Ltd (City) 5,564 3,820 24,863 16,102 6,164 Hyundai Motors India Ltd (Verna) 2,110 4,813 11,685 23,941 1,818 Maruti Suzuki India Ltd (SX4) 2,036 114 10,355 10,024 1,965 Nissan Motor India pvt Ltd (Sunny) 0 1,140 0 1,140 0 Tata Motors Ltd (Indigo, Manza) 3,224 2,321 19,377 9,680 3,825 Volkswagen India Pvt Ltd (Vento) 1,020 3,574 1,441 20,524 1,363 Specialty: Hindustan Motors Ltd (Ambassador) 513 219 3,841 1,365 453 Total 16,916 18,380 83,849 94,155 17,576 Executive: Seats Upto-5, Length Normally 4500-4700 mm, Body Style-Sedan/Estate/Hatch/Notchback, Engine Displacement Normally upto 2.0 Litre Regular: Fiat India Automobiles Pvt Ltd (Linea) 711 150 5,472 2,893 724 General Motors India Pvt Ltd (Optra, Cruze) 1,141 658 6,104 6,431 1,083 Hindustan Motors Ltd (Cedia sports) 30 2 65 37 26 Honda Siel Cars India Ltd (Civic) 604 209 2,704 1,559 574 Hyundai Motors India Ltd (Elantra) 0 0 0 0 0 Maruti Suzuki India Ltd (Kizashi) 0 0 0 0 0 Renault India Pvt Ltd (Renault FLUENCE) 0 75 0 994 0 Skoda Auto India Pvt Ltd (Laura) 301 410 3,672 3,832 845 Toyota Kirloskar Motor Pvt Ltd (Corolla ) 1,055 1,023 4,997 4,797 1,082 Volkswagen India Pvt Ltd (Jetta) 0 433 2,135 936 254 Specialty: BMW india pvt Ltd ( 3 Series) 137 201 986 1,004 255 Hindustan Motors Ltd (EVO X) 0 1 0 4 0 Mercedes-Benz India Pvt Ltd (C-Class) 219 319 1,229 1,835 228 Volkswagen - Audi (A4) 0 0 0 0 102 Total 4,198 3,481 27,364 24,322 5,173 Premium: Seats Upto-5, Length Normally 4700-5000 mm, Body Style-Sedan/Estate/Hatch/Notchback, Engine Displacement Normally upto 3.0 Litre Regular: Honda Siel Cars India Ltd ( Accord ) 300 60 1,080 720 253 Hyundai Motors India Ltd ( Sonata ) 20 0 141 101 16 Nissan Motor India Pvt Ltd (Teana) 0 0 0 128 21 Skoda Auto India Pvt Ltd (Superb) 325 280 2,100 2,072 366 Toyota Kirloskar Motor Pvt Ltd (Camry ) 0 0 0 0 36 Volkswagen India Pvt Ltd (Passat) 0 68 571 751 107 Specialty: BMW india pvt Ltd (Gran Turismo, 5 Series) 340 372 886 1,740 317 Mercedes-Benz India Pvt Ltd (E-Class) 254 319 1,015 1,633 261 Toyota Kirloskar Motor Pvt Ltd (Prius ) 0 0 0 0 2 Volkswagen - Audi (A6, A7) 0 0 0 0 50 Total 1,239 1,099 5,793 7,145 1,429 Luxury: Seats Upto-5, Length Normally Over 5000 mm, Body Style-Sedan/Estate/Hatch/Notchback, Engine Displacement Normally upto 5.0 Litre Regular: BMW india pvt Ltd (7 Series ) 0 0 0 0 45 Mercedes-Benz India Pvt Ltd ( S-Class) 28 47 320 278 86 Volkswagen - Audi (A8) 0 0 0 0 0 Volkswagen India Pvt Ltd (Phaeton) 0 0 0 0 10 Total 28 47 320 278 141 Coupe: Roadster - 2 Doors; 2/4 seater, retractable/firm roof Regular: BMW india pvt Ltd (6 Series, Z4) 0 0 0 0 5 Mercedes-Benz India Pvt Ltd (E-Coupe, E-Cabrio, CLS, SLK) 0 0 0 0 36 Nissan Motor India Pvt Ltd (370Z) 0 0 0 0 0 Volkswagen - Audi (R8, RS5) 0 0 0 0 3 Total 0 0 0 0 44 Exotics: Upto 5 Seats, Price >Rs. 1 Crore Mercedes-Benz India pvt. Ltd (SLS AMG) 0 0 0 0 0 Total 0 0 0 0 0 Total Passenger Car 211,150 191,327 1,154,286 1,197,544 168,959 B: Utility Vehicles (Uvs) B: Utility Vehicles / Sports Utillty Vehicles; 2x4 or 4x4 offroad capability; Generally ladder on frame; 2 box ; 5 seats or more but upto 10 Seats UV1: Length<4400 mm, Price Upto Rs. 15 Lakh Force Motors Ltd (Trax) 31 34 191 187 33 Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd (Bolero, ST) 6,495 7,652 36,420 44,307 7,509 Maruti Suzuki India Ltd (Gypsy) 331 446 2,510 3,331 258 Tata Motors Ltd (Sumo,) 1,271 1,640 8,667 8,199 1,290 Total 8,128 9,772 47,788 56,024 9,090 UV2: Length<4400 - 4700 mm, Price Upto Rs. 15 Lakh General Motors India Pvt Ltd (Tavera) 1,597 1,785 9,146 10,875 1,577 International Cars & Motors Ltd (Rhino) 50 67 395 236 57 Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd (Scorpio, Bolero, ST, Xylo) 8,946 9,273 45,959 52,032 9,028 Tata Motors Ltd (Sumo Grande, Safari) 1,728 1,450 10,603 8,537 1,950 Toyota Kirloskar Motor Pvt Ltd (Innova) 4,012 4,877 26,248 25,066 4,106 Total 16,333 17,452 92,351 96,746 16,718 UV3: Length>4700 mm, Price Upto Rs. 15 Lakh Force Motors Ltd (Trax) 234 381 1,422 1,700 270 Tata Motors Ltd (Aria, Xenon) 195 327 381 1,833 77 Total 429 708 1,803 3,533 347 UV4: Price Between Rs. 15 to 25Lakh BMW india Pvt Ltd (X1) 0 379 0 2,363 0 Ford India Pvt Ltd (Endeavour) 278 311 1,758 1,497 282 General Motors India Pvt Ltd (Captiva) 0 0 0 0 167 Hindustan Motors Ltd (Pajero, Outlander) 321 184 1,328 1,071 318 Honda Siel Cars India Ltd (CRV) 0 0 0 0 88 Hyundai Motors India Ltd (Santa Fe) 0 247 0 747 0 Maruti Suzuki India Ltd (Vitara) 0 0 0 0 8 Nissan Motor India Pvt Ltd (X-Trail) 0 0 0 0 36 Renault India Pvt Ltd (Koleos) 0 98 0 98 0 Skoda Auto India Pvt Ltd (Yeti) 0 154 0 1,236 0 Toyota Kirloskar Motor Pvt Ltd (Fortuner) 1,027 1,076 6,133 5,441 998 Total 1,626 2,449 9,219 12,453 1,897 UV5: Price > Rs. 25Lakh BMW india Pvt Ltd (X3, X5, X6) 0 65 0 175 65 Hindustan Motors Ltd (Mentero) 12 14 17 56 12 Mercedes-Benz India pvt. Ltd (ML Class, GL Class, R Class, G class) 0 0 0 0 53 Toyota Kirloskar Motor Pvt Ltd (LC,Prado) 0 0 0 0 11 Volkswagen - Audi (Q5,Q7) 0 0 0 0 137 Volkswagen India Pvt Ltd (Touareg) 0 0 0 0 0 Total 12 79 17 231 278 Total Utillity Vehicles (Uvs) 26,528 30,460 151,178 168,987 28,330 C: Vans; Generally 1 or 1.5 box; seats upto 5 to 10 V1: Hard tops mainly used for personal transport, Price Upto Rs. 10 Lakh Maruti Suzuki India Ltd (Omini,Ecco) 14,124 10,989 76,903 81,137 13,822 Tata Motors Ltd (Venture) 63 403 77 3,569 0 Total 14,187 11,392 76,980 84,706 13,822 V2: Soft tops mainly used as Maxi Cabs, Price Upto Rs. 10 Lakh Force Motors Ltd (Trip) 40 0 79 100 19 Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd (Gio, Maxximo Mini Van) 35 2,400 35 12,093 0 Tata Motors Ltd (Magic, lris) 3,860 5,405 24,815 27,018 3,955 Total 3,935 7,805 24,929 39,211 3,974 Total Vans 18,122 19,197 101,909 123,917 17,796 Total Passenger Vehicles (PVs) 255,800 240,984 1,407,373 1,490,448 215,085 II Commercial Vehicles (CVs) M&HCVs A: Passenger Carriers A1: Max. Mass exceeding 7-5 tonnes but not exceeding 12 tonnes (M3(B1)) (b): No. of seats including driver exceeding 13 (M3(B2)) Ashok Leyland Ltd 95 158 928 1,259 133 Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd 0 0 0 0 0 Mahindra Navistar Automotives Ltd 110 14 355 105 50 SML Isuzu Ltd 397 329 1,941 1,557 190 Tata Motors Ltd 426 562 2,919 3,501 336 VE CVs - Eicher 120 170 1,387 1,851 222 Total A1 1,148 1,233 7,530 8,273 931 A2: Max. Mass exceeding 12 but no exceeding 16.2 tonnes (M3(C)) (b): No. of seats including driver exceeding 13 (M3(C2)) Ashok Leyland Ltd 2,520 1,663 10,963 10,241 2,023 JCBL Ltd 0 0 0 1 0 SML Isuzu Ltd 10 5 46 42 8 Tata Motors Ltd 2,168 1,461 9,494 6,798 1,367 VE CVs - Eicher 2 91 70 362 13 Volvo Buses India Pvt Ltd 27 11 122 123 32 Total A2 4,727 3,231 20,695 17,567 3,443 A3: No. of seats including exceeding 13 and max. mass exceeding 16.2 tonnes (M3(D)) Passenger Carrier (D) Volvo Buses India Pvt Ltd 21 24 96 212 16 Total A3 21 24 96 212 16 Total M&HCVs(passenger carriers) 5,896 4,488 28,321 26,052 4,390 M&HCVs B: Goods Carriers (c) Max Mass exceeding 7.5 tonnes but not exceeding 10 tons Ashok Leyland Ltd 77 15 275 274 36 SML Isuzu Ltd 220 216 1,348 1,566 260 Tata Motors Ltd 447 501 2,854 3,420 581 VE CVs - Eicher 1,040 1,203 4,978 5,574 1,172 Total 1,784 1,935 9,455 10,834 2,049 (d) Max. Mass Exceeding 10 tons but not exceeding 12 tons Ashok Leyland Ltd 242 293 1,416 2,071 280
Exports For the month of September
Cumulative April-September
2011
10-11
11-12
2010
2011
10-11
11-12
2,936 2,936
37,402 37,402
29,377 29,377
0 0
0 0
1 1
1,125 1,125
1,596 13,584 37,324 52,504
16,342 39,689 252,994 309,025
14,614 47,870 234,900 297,384
9 3,706 11,425 15,140
7 2,145 6,352 8,504
37 19,823 68,110 87,970
31 20,916 53,638 74,585
678 5,220 5,318 767 16,803 19,722 1,475 1,172 15,756 2,975 3,050 72,936
6,529 38,179 18,387 2,800 112,975 128,585 3,293 2,820 72,107 0 12,022 397,697
6,259 33,016 21,928 2,285 103,329 100,515 8,743 8,261 64,534 9,079 19,092 377,041
96 880 14 4 14,402 1,153 0 0 660 0 0 17,209
223 2,350 14 2 17,034 140 7,192 0 620 0 0 27,575
810 3,474 121 15 95,130 6,669 0 0 3,571 0 0 109,790
885 12,105 79 2 95,230 5,987 49,732 0 2,118 0 0 166,138
553 1,560 9,411 2,951 14,475
7,859 3,869 50,361 0 62,089
5,269 8,707 45,383 22,825 82,184
1,582 0 69 0 1,651
2,688 0 24 0 2,712
10,436 1,500 384 0 12,320
13,293 0 126 0 13,419
4 4
240 240
34 34
0 0
0 0
0 0
0 0
2,300 118 53 3,720 4,810 196 659 2,319 3,285
8,198 2,057 390 23,432 11,511 9,959 0 20,565 1,363
9,640 872 198 19,803 24,058 9,909 659 8,951 16,876
123 2 0 9 0 2 0 216 0
119 3 0 2 0 72 0 112 0
697 77 0 32 0 16 0 1,037 0
482 62 0 8 0 199 0 295 0
204 17,664
3,745 81,220
1,346 92,312
0 352
4 312
0 1,859
4 1,050
140 1,133 8 117 0 14 100 285 994 423
5,334 5,185 101 2,460 2 0 0 3,648 4,967 1,860
2,433 6,006 33 1,298 0 171 773 3,011 4,761 1,173
28 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
7 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
68 3 0 3 0 0 0 0 0 0
186 20 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
220 1 293 259 3,987
1,105 0 1,278 576 26,516
1,084 4 1,473 1,113 23,333
0 0 0 0 28
0 0 0 0 13
0 0 0 0 74
0 0 0 0 206
137 7 11 147 17 85
1,172 145 140 2,036 184 599
654 90 44 1,620 120 856
5 0 0 0 0 0
2 0 0 0 0 0
5 0 0 0 0 0
4 0 0 0 0 0
335 335 1 181 1,256
1,080 1,078 81 401 6,916
1,578 1,351 5 578 6,896
0 0 0 0 5
0 0 0 0 2
0 0 0 0 5
0 0 0 0 4
40 49 40 0 129
249 272 5 21 547
175 195 173 14 557
0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0
6 19 0 9 34
50 103 4 3 160
31 74 2 53 160
0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0
0 0 165,925
0 0 921,812
5 5 909,283
0 0 34,385
0 0 39,118
0 0 212,019
0 0 256,527
32 8,932 411 1,660 11,035
183 35,662 3,758 7,982 47,585
181 43,347 3,826 8,633 55,987
0 8 35 71 114
0 4 19 5 28
0 197 47 271 515
1 75 71 226 373
1,785 70 8,955 2,314 4,765 17,889
8,927 397 44,805 10,074 26,203 90,406
10,805 236 48,583 8,574 24,974 93,172
1 0 188 33 0 222
4 0 325 25 0 354
5 0 1,123 156 0 1,284
44 0 1,993 71 0 2,108
358 584 942
1,381 1,132 2,513
1,619 1,847 3,466
0 0 0
0 1 1
0 0 0
0 73 73
273 281 128 195 17 198 1 31 91 50 1,078 2,343
0 1,525 906 1,326 307 0 49 237 0 2 6,057 10,409
1,816 1,419 830 1,076 151 819 20 132 91 803 5,436 12,593
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
98 11 49 26 123 0 307 32,516
190 20 197 171 560 3 1,141 152,054
321 53 403 63 947 4 1,791 167,009
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 336
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 383
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1,799
0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2,554
11,737 750 12,487
75,117 0 75,117
78,365 3,206 81,571
174 0 174
142 0 142
929 0 929
716 0 716
10 2,742 4,490 7,242 19,729 218,170
30 0 24,718 24,748 99,865 1,173,731
130 11,752 25,626 37,508 119,079 1,195,371
0 0 0 0 174 34,895
0 0 3 3 145 39,646
0 0 39 39 968 214,786
0 0 105 105 821 259,902
143 0 0 291 526 180 1,140
915 0 329 1,645 3,410 1,571 7,870
1,385 0 1 1,643 3,259 1,872 8,160
17 0 0 0 19 5 41
54 0 0 0 41 0 95
118 5 0 4 308 117 552
146 0 0 5 205 38 394
1,231 0 3 1,174 94 12 2,514
8,704 0 43 7,935 82 131 16,895
7,711 1 39 6,160 315 122 14,348
386 0 0 597 0 0 983
390 0 0 327 9 0 726
1,855 0 0 2,196 11 0 4,062
2,211 0 0 1,636 28 0 3,875
24 24 3,678
87 87 24,852
209 209 22,717
0 0 1,024
0 0 821
0 0 4,614
0 0 4,269
2 325 903 1,078 2,308
227 1,228 3,389 5,074 9,918
170 1,376 4,552 5,246 11,344
34 30 50 46 160
0 50 78 72 200
66 91 323 191 671
34 190 337 131 692
409
1,235
1,585
0
21
80
118
1 - 15 November 2011
Auto Monitor
SIAM DATA
Category Segment/Subsegment Manufacturer.
Production For the month of September 2010
Domestic Sales For the month of Cumulative September April-September
Cumulative April-September
2011
45
Exports For the month of September
Cumulative April-September
2011
10-11
11-12
2010
10-11
11-12
2010
2011
10-11
11-12
SML Isuzu Ltd 170 96 Tata Motors Ltd 1,000 1,000 VE CVs - Eicher 804 1,351 Total 2,216 2,740 Total B 4,000 4,675 B2: Max Mass exceeding 16.2 tonnes (N3(A)) (a) Max. mass exceeding 12 tonnes but not exceeding 16.2 tonnes (N3(A1)) Ashok Leyland Ltd 1,428 2,149 SML Isuzu Ltd 0 0 Tata Motors Ltd 4,751 5,786 VE CVs - Eicher 341 479 Total B2 6,520 8,414 B3: Max Mass exceeding 16.2 tonnes-Rigid Vehicles (N3(B1)) (a) Max. mass exceeding 16.2 tonnes but not exceeding 25 tonnes Ashok Leyland Ltd 2,361 1,533 Asia Motor Works Ltd 497 809 Mahindra Navistar Automotives Ltd 87 108 Tata Motors Ltd 5,316 3,620 VE CVs - Eicher 69 64 VE CVs - Volvo 0 0 Total 8,330 6,134 (b) Max. mass exceeding 25 tonnes Ashok Leyland Ltd 730 932 Asia Motor Works Ltd 13 46 Daimler India Commercial Vehicles Pvt Ltd 25 45 Mahindra Navistar Automotives Ltd 15 43 Tata Motors Ltd 4,846 4,922 VE CVs - Eicher 39 194 VE CVs - Volvo 62 47 Total 5,730 6,229 Total B3 14,060 12,363 B4: Max. Mass exceeding 16.2 tonnes-Haulage Tractor (Tractor-Semi Traller/Traller)(N3(B2)) (a) Max. Mass exceeding 16.2 tonnes but not exceeding 26.4 tonnes Ashok Leyland Ltd 0 0 Total 0 0 (b) Max. mass exceeding 26.4 tonnes but not exceeding 35.2 tonnes Ashok Leyland Ltd 512 208 Tata Motors Ltd 0 0 Total 512 208 (c) Mass exceeding 35.2 tonnes but not exceeding 40 tonnes Ashok Leyland Ltd 0 0 Asia Motor Works Ltd 32 44 Mahindra Navistar Automotives Ltd 3 37 Total 35 81 (d) Max. mass exceeding 40 tonnes but not exceeding 49 tonnes Ashok Leyland Ltd 489 240 Asia Motor Works Ltd 29 11 Tata Motors Ltd 0 740 VE CVs - Eicher 13 0 Total 531 991 (e) Max. mass exceeding 49 tonnes and Above Ashok Leyland Ltd 231 159 VE CVs - Volvo 8 21 Total 239 180 Total B4 1,317 1,460 Total M&HCVs (Goods Carriers) 25,897 26,912 Total M&HCVs 31,793 31,400 LCVs A: Passenger Carriers A1: Max. Mass upto 5 tonnes (a): No. of seats including driver exceeding 13 (M2(A2)) Force Motors Ltd 800 1,029 Mahindra Navistar Automotives Ltd 336 97 Tata Motors Ltd 248 347 Total 1,384 1,473 A2: Max. Mass exceeding 5 tonnes but not exceeding 7-5 tonnes (M3(A)) (b): No. of seats including driver exceeding 13 (M3(A2)) Ashok Leyland Ltd 76 117 Force Motors Ltd 25 0 Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd 0 0 Mahindra Navistar Automotives Ltd 43 187 SML Isuzu Ltd 248 422 Tata Motors Ltd 1,030 1,246 VE CVs - Eicher 241 268 Total A2 1,663 2,240 B2: Max. Mass upto 5 tonnes (b): No. of seats including driver not exceeding 13 (M2(A1)) Force Motors Ltd 481 557 Hindustan Motors Ltd 0 0 Tata Motors Ltd 106 125 Total B2 587 682 Total LCVs (Passenger Carriers) 3,634 4,395 LCVs B: Goods Carriers (a) Max. Mass not exceeding 2 tons-Mini Truck Segment Force Motors Ltd 105 0 Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd 3,046 5,249 Piaggio Vehicles Pvt.Ltd 921 1,075 Tata Motors Ltd 14,500 22,000 Total 18,572 28,324 (b) Max. Mass not exceeding 2 but no exceeding 3.5 tons-Pick Ups Force Motors Ltd 374 607 Hindustan Motors Ltd 9 17 Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd 5,880 7,409 Tata Motors Ltd 637 721 Total 6,900 8,754 (a) Max Mass exceeding 3.5 tons but not exceeding 6 tonnes Force Motors Ltd 139 145 Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd 0 0 Mahindra Navistar Automotives Ltd 713 619 SML Isuzu Ltd 3 20 Tata Motors Ltd 2,158 2,952 VE CVs - Eicher 51 80 Total 3,064 3,816 (b) Max Mass exceeding 6 tons but not exceeding 7.5 tonnes Ashok Leyland Ltd 0 0 Mahindra Navistar Automotives Ltd 15 56 SML Isuzu Ltd 168 138 Tata Motors Ltd 452 407 VE CVs - Eicher 447 446 Total 1,082 1,047 Total LCVs (Goods Carriers) 29,618 41,941 Total LCVs 33,252 46,336 Total Commercial Vehicles 65,045 77,736 IV Two Wheelers A: Scooter/Scooterettee : Wheel size less than or equal to 12” A1: Engine Capacity less than 75cc Mahindra Two Wheelers Ltd 1,500 527 TVS Motor Company Ltd 1,746 1,473 Total 3,246 2,000 A2: Engine Capacity 75cc and above but less than 125cc Bajaj Auto Ltd 0 0 Hero Honda Motors Ltd 27,700 38,248 Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India (Pvt) Ltd 62,940 107,654 Mahindra Two Wheelers Ltd 15,000 16,598 Suzuki Motorcycle India Pvt Ltd 17,856 23,089 TVS Motor Company Ltd 26,405 50,779 Total 149,901 236,368 Total Scooter/Scooterettee 153,147 238,368 B: Motor cycles/Step-Throughs : Big Wheel size more than 12” B2: Engine Capacity 75cc and above but less than 125cc Bajaj Auto Ltd 168,894 202,414 Hero Honda Motors Ltd 379,208 479,253 Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India (Pvt) Ltd 14,549 11,285 India Yamaha Motor Pvt Ltd 6,357 7,335 TVS Motor Company Ltd 52,779 57,552 Total 621,787 757,839 B3: Engine Capacity 125cc and above but less than 250cc Bajaj Auto Ltd 138,985 170,300 Hero Honda Motors Ltd 26,733 32,124 Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India (Pvt) Ltd 43,755 54,635 India Yamaha Motor Pvt Ltd 25,172 37,443 Suzuki Motorcycle India Pvt Ltd 4,665 5,092 TVS Motor Company Ltd 22,040 24,304 Total 261,350 323,898 B4: Engine capacity 250cc and above Bajaj Auto Ltd 0 72 H-D Motor Company India pvt Ltd 0 167 Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India (Pvt) Ltd 0 2,805 India Yamaha Motor Pvt Ltd 0 0 Royal Enfield (Unit of Eicher Ltd) 3,865 6,808 Total 3,865 9,852 Total Motor Cycles/Step-Throughs 887,002 1,091,589 C: Mopeds: Engine capacity less than 75cc & with fixed transmission, big wheelsize>12” Engine Capacity<75cc Mopeds TVS Motor Company Ltd 60,241 62,819 Total 60,241 62,819 Total Mopeds 60,241 62,819 Total Two Wheelers 1,100,390 1,392,776 III Three Wheelers A: Passenger Carriers A1:No. of seats including driver not exceeding 4 & Max.Mass not exceeding 1 tonnes Atul Auto Limited 826 1,434 Bajaj Auto Ltd 38,680 43,901 Force Motors Ltd 0 0 Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd 4,372 5,167 Piaggio Vehicles Pvt.Ltd 15,048 14,551 Scooters india Ltd 297 441 TVS Motor Company Ltd 3,780 4,330 Total 63,003 69,824 A2: No.of seats including Driver exceeding 4 but not exceeding 7 & Max.Mass exceeding 1.5 tonnes Force Motors Ltd 0 30 Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd 0 0 Scooters india Ltd 237 263 Total 237 293 Total Passenger Carrier 63,240 70,117 B: Goods Carriers B1: Max.mass not exceeding 1 tonnes Atul Auto Limited 707 1,124 Bajaj Auto Ltd 122 456 Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd 769 1,106 Piaggio Vehicles Pvt.Ltd 4,928 4,832 Scooters india Ltd 316 525 Total 6,842 8,043 B2: Others Force Motors Ltd 0 0 Mahindra & Mahindra Ltd 938 350 Piaggio Vehicles Pvt.Ltd 0 14 Scooters india Ltd 107 247 Total 1,045 611 Total Goods Carrier 7,887 8,654 Total Three Wheelers 71,127 78,771 Grand Total of all Categories 1,492,362 1,790,267
695 5,789 4,541 12,441 21,896
727 5,985 6,479 15,262 26,096
170 1,023 902 2,375 4,424
176 2,068 1,326 3,979 6,287
602 7,158 4,793 13,788 23,706
778 10,264 6,041 18,668 30,012
0 145 5 150 310
0 98 65 184 384
24 885 101 1,090 1,761
2 616 136 872 1,564
9,999 1 23,132 1,596 34,728
11,291 8 30,289 2,820 44,408
1,827 0 3,484 369 5,680
1,606 9 3,466 365 5,446
8,060 0 17,882 1,376 27,318
8,609 17 17,331 2,069 28,026
332 0 464 44 840
460 0 607 96 1,163
1,690 0 2,541 290 4,521
2,452 0 3,302 412 6,166
13,533 2,516 320 28,338 320 1 45,028
8,241 4,933 395 26,428 541 0 40,538
2,929 506 11 5,062 113 0 8,621
1,708 893 129 4,156 75 0 6,961
12,835 2,448 47 27,379 406 12 43,127
8,163 4,514 502 23,879 491 0 37,549
0 0 0 94 0 0 94
74 0 0 241 0 0 315
0 0 0 1,126 4 0 1,130
485 0 0 997 0 0 1,482
5,199 67 168 18 22,069 161 437 28,119 73,147
6,056 259 100 237 30,127 688 288 37,755 78,293
1,112 5 19 4 2,814 77 76 4,107 12,728
1,438 21 31 85 3,863 189 27 5,654 12,615
4,840 53 102 4 12,204 224 387 17,814 60,941
6,026 186 80 436 20,517 639 147 28,031 65,580
0 0 0 0 8 0 0 8 102
0 0 0 0 36 0 0 36 351
0 0 0 0 203 0 0 203 1,333
0 0 0 0 129 0 0 129 1,611
0 0
0 0
0 0
0 0
0 0
0 0
59 59
0 0
357 357
0 0
1,914 0 1,914
1,335 0 1,335
540 838 1,378
359 705 1,064
2,004 4,158 6,162
1,297 4,249 5,546
10 0 10
14 0 14
30 0 30
65 0 65
2 271 3 276
0 353 145 498
0 37 0 37
0 12 37 49
2 238 0 240
0 277 140 417
5 0 0 5
2 0 0 2
10 0 0 10
2 0 0 2
1,653 147 0 29 1,829
987 108 1,359 74 2,528
393 11 1,132 14 1,550
285 7 1,294 7 1,593
1,535 138 5,384 46 7,103
1,070 76 6,024 49 7,219
0 0 0 0 0
0 0 0 0 0
15 0 0 0 15
0 0 1 0 1
1,178 79 1,257 5,276 135,047 163,368
771 133 904 5,265 154,062 180,114
200 6 206 3,171 26,003 30,393
252 20 272 2,978 27,326 31,004
977 71 1,048 14,553 126,518 151,370
904 114 1,018 14,200 137,818 160,535
0 0 0 74 1,326 2,350
0 0 0 16 1,914 2,735
0 0 0 412 8,027 12,641
0 0 0 68 9,409 13,678
4,244 1,772 1,953 7,969
5,218 1,027 3,008 9,253
739 302 205 1,246
1,028 229 381 1,638
4,017 1,695 2,721 8,433
5,033 1,304 2,845 9,182
26 0 11 37
13 0 8 21
72 0 166 238
65 0 114 179
577 151 0 1,104 1,668 7,617 1,584 12,701
896 22 0 1,682 1,904 9,106 1,957 15,567
39 26 0 44 235 725 180 1,249
23 6 0 56 381 1,094 276 1,836
365 134 0 1,045 1,576 7,212 1,425 11,757
216 46 0 1,327 1,743 7,023 1,931 12,286
7 0 0 0 0 167 28 202
105 0 9 0 4 550 24 692
69 0 2 0 21 1,015 223 1,330
256 0 9 0 19 2,122 71 2,477
2,380 0 666 3,046 23,716
3,068 2 532 3,602 28,422
385 0 167 552 3,047
478 0 93 571 4,045
2,259 0 887 3,146 23,336
2,898 0 1,044 3,942 25,410
0 0 0 0 239
0 0 0 0 713
0 0 40 40 1,608
5 0 3 8 2,664
848 16,833 5,506 70,015 93,202
692 27,875 6,487 95,714 130,768
100 3,536 1,128 10,968 15,732
5 4,640 959 17,006 22,610
682 16,715 5,013 61,228 83,638
242 25,253 6,146 84,540 116,181
0 10 6 1,702 1,718
0 625 4 2,504 3,133
2 195 12 9,175 9,384
0 2,155 10 11,479 13,644
2,236 241 34,894 9,436 46,807
2,710 135 40,919 21,637 65,401
371 11 5,719 923 7,024
638 24 6,037 1,912 8,611
2,178 213 30,120 5,473 37,984
2,901 114 33,505 9,954 46,474
4 0 769 256 1,029
7 5 1,734 417 2,163
6 0 4,164 1,627 5,797
35 25 6,477 2,353 8,890
720 0 2,789 8 12,664 556 16,737
771 0 2,684 45 16,998 762 21,260
109 0 652 2 1,781 49 2,593
114 0 420 4 2,683 65 3,286
705 0 2,731 6 11,200 463 15,105
708 0 2,412 28 13,962 732 17,842
0 0 0 0 378 9 387
13 0 0 0 522 37 572
4 64 0 0 1,706 24 1,798
15 87 0 0 3,169 87 3,358
24 68 568 2,483 2,302 5,445 162,191 185,907 349,275
0 168 709 3,274 3,050 7,201 224,630 253,052 433,166
0 6 114 373 554 1,047 26,396 29,443 59,836
0 12 136 433 497 1,078 35,585 39,630 70,634
0 75 390 1,900 1,777 4,142 140,869 164,205 315,575
0 77 548 2,550 2,284 5,459 185,956 211,366 371,901
0 0 70 25 62 157 3,291 3,530 5,880
0 0 17 22 172 211 6,079 6,792 9,527
0 0 200 222 385 807 17,786 19,394 32,035
0 0 125 423 756 1,304 27,196 29,860 43,538
6,839 9,590 16,429
2,150 9,490 11,640
1,066 1,729 2,795
563 1,513 2,076
5,978 11,745 17,723
2,833 9,363 12,196
0 0 0
0 0 0
0 0 0
6 0 6
0 156,789 446,444 73,818 101,831 192,104 970,986 987,415
0 214,409 530,788 78,383 135,838 253,634 1,213,052 1,224,692
0 26,468 64,191 15,445 17,862 26,955 150,921 153,716
0 34,608 107,388 13,283 22,549 51,806 229,634 231,710
27 149,865 440,794 64,735 101,746 186,758 943,925 961,648
0 195,090 520,871 71,402 135,203 248,260 1,170,826 1,183,022
0 1,232 743 176 1 1,682 3,834 3,834
0 3,640 2,148 24 0 2,560 8,372 8,372
0 7,280 6,707 854 90 8,619 23,550 23,550
0 18,250 9,448 486 90 17,365 45,639 45,645
944,426 2,237,739 97,027 41,209 317,735 3,638,136
1,071,276 2,705,767 88,336 37,446 286,304 4,189,129
92,490 370,944 12,997 5,476 50,779 532,686
106,644 469,977 9,028 6,118 54,103 645,870
598,214 2,158,813 90,427 38,487 242,244 3,128,185
597,796 2,625,073 70,257 30,252 250,852 3,574,230
56,156 8,264 1,305 691 7,047 73,463
73,752 9,277 2,986 1,059 12,034 99,108
329,494 51,697 8,751 5,133 52,382 447,457
455,849 54,262 18,442 4,901 66,907 600,361
755,200 154,458 267,221 123,533 18,728 118,614 1,437,754
897,963 180,814 293,358 203,449 32,564 162,652 1,770,800
138,455 26,141 41,018 18,653 4,672 12,919 241,858
149,087 31,051 49,205 26,512 5,971 16,497 278,323
600,557 146,385 242,290 86,826 18,467 67,186 1,161,711
709,967 175,469 264,815 142,321 29,246 79,818 1,401,636
27,414 592 2,160 2,815 1 10,636 43,618
41,670 1,072 5,358 9,766 560 8,214 66,640
183,598 5,943 25,529 35,490 449 47,552 298,561
226,713 5,748 27,361 53,500 3,423 56,218 372,963
0 0 0 0 25,224 25,224 5,101,114
92 257 11,980 0 39,012 51,341 6,011,270
0 0 8 4 3,795 3,807 778,351
55 77 2,296 7 6,837 9,272 933,465
0 0 23 23 23,964 24,010 4,313,906
83 178 11,260 58 37,136 48,715 5,024,581
0 0 0 0 102 102 117,183
0 0 54 0 188 242 165,990
0 0 0 0 1,349 1,349 747,367
0 0 54 0 1,528 1,582 974,906
343,435 343,435 343,435 6,431,964
389,098 389,098 389,098 7,625,060
60,316 60,316 60,316 992,383
68,108 68,108 68,108 1,233,283
337,882 337,882 337,882 5,613,436
383,531 383,531 383,531 6,591,134
0 0 0 121,017
855 855 855 175,217
3,951 3,951 3,951 774,868
4,939 4,939 4,939 1,025,490
4,389 209,893 0 19,610 73,957 1,984 18,692 328,525
6,523 254,502 0 24,205 72,498 2,633 24,186 384,547
778 19,715 0 4,066 13,389 373 2,100 40,421
1,332 19,408 4 5,291 11,800 419 1,369 39,623
4,320 97,324 5 18,989 67,096 1,932 12,333 201,999
6,336 94,091 8 23,351 62,594 2,208 6,214 194,802
18 18,390 0 318 1,608 0 1,122 21,456
60 26,491 0 272 2,286 0 2,310 31,419
80 117,965 0 1,058 7,244 0 5,422 131,769
140 168,936 0 1,742 9,454 0 16,872 197,144
84 908 1,307 2,299 330,824
247 0 1,390 1,637 386,184
0 -1 254 253 40,674
0 0 317 317 39,940
26 738 1,229 1,993 203,992
0 209 1,430 1,639 196,441
0 0 0 0 21,456
56 0 0 56 31,475
84 0 0 84 131,853
308 0 0 308 197,452
4,226 1,790 6,365 27,614 2,040 42,035
5,927 3,486 7,925 29,923 3,126 50,387
763 149 1,053 4,677 376 7,018
1,119 579 1,487 4,799 515 8,499
4,260 1,531 6,334 27,101 1,954 41,180
5,883 3,517 7,136 29,511 2,681 48,728
0 0 18 66 0 84
0 0 32 62 0 94
2 174 152 489 0 817
16 0 418 420 0 854
15 2,772 0 1,070 3,857 45,892 376,716 8,565,328
0 2,507 94 1,326 3,927 54,314 440,498 9,989,172
1 887 0 234 1,122 8,140 48,814 1,316,118
0 524 0 292 816 9,315 49,255 1,571,342
104 2,604 0 1,192 3,900 45,080 249,072 7,351,814
0 2,453 0 1,354 3,807 52,535 248,976 8,407,382
0 0 0 0 0 84 21,540 183,332
0 0 12 0 12 106 31,581 255,971
0 0 0 0 0 817 132,670 1,154,359
0 0 96 0 96 950 198,402 1,527,332
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Getting Personal with Suman Bose, Managing Director India, Siemens Industry Software India If not in the auto industry, where would you be? I would have been an outdoor photographer. Still can be.... What car do you drive? What do you dream of driving? Skoda Superb AWD V6 and dream car is the Enzo Ferrari V12 and the Lamborghini Aventador V12 Your most recent indulgence… Buying Nikon 700 with all the accompanying 2.8F lenses (zoom/ telephoto, wide angle, etc) What are you currently reading? Judith Viorst’s ‘Necessary Losses’ and Mario Llosa’s ‘The Bad Girl’ What is Mr Bose doing when not talking auto? Besides running business, which takes a giant part of my time, I have interests in a variety of topics and usually keep engaged doing most of them at any given point of time. I play active sports, write, read, listen to music, travel and take photos Outdoor activity you would miss office for… Trekking in the Himalayas or Alps
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In Person Suman Bose has held the position of the managing director and VP, Siemens Industry Software India, Gurgaon and India Information Technology and Services for over two years. He joined the company in 2009 and has led as the head of Indian operations to re-assert customer innovation, thought leadership, and business execution. Prior to this assignment, he was the Country Businesss Management Head e company for for Dassault Systemes in India and served the over two years. er sales manageHis primary responsibility was to look after ment, channel management, new business development n played the across Asia Pacific. From 2004 to 2006, Suman key role as the Director, Sales and Business Development ault Systemes of MatrixOne—a company acquired by Dassault iant Hewlett in April 2006. Suman has also served the IT giant Packard Company in various roles during hiss past assignments. He has worked with companies like India & SAARC at SDRC Corporation, Digital Equipment Corporation (now part of HP) and Pertech Computers. He is an alumni of XLRI Jamshedpur. Bose is known for his immense knowledge and has an electrifying personality.
Where did you go for your last holiday? North of France You get angry when… I get angry when I see people surrender to fate, mete out ill behaviour, commit harassment, and abuse position of power and influence. I have little patience to deal with repeated mistakes (same one), incompetence (due to lack of initiative in an individual) and shoddy presentation What is the one thing you would like to change about you? Emotionally, I would like to be more forgiving of myself and of others without lowering my expectations or standards. Physically, I would like to be able to do more active sports and stay in better shape
Illustration: Sachin Pandit
Best thing to have happened to you… Meeting someone very special
An experience I won’t forget… Cruising at 15,000 plus feet, the airplane door opens and our instructor looks at the three of us and gestures to be ready for our sky dive. The experience was insanely intense: why would anyone in his right mind, jump from a perfectly good plane! And then the time comes to sit at the open door, look down and stare into the void, look back and gaze into the eyes of their loved one briefly, and then finally takes the leap of faith into the space below!
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