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PASSION TO CREATE WITH US

QUALITY

IS A WAY OF LIFE THAT REFLECTS IN WHATEVER

WE DO..

OUR GENES… Comstar Automotive is into the design & development of starting and charging system for automotive applications. We thrive in delivering green technologies for the next generation hybrid vehicles and continue to invest in innovative technologies to meet our customer requirements.

Apart from the OE’s, we have been developing a huge aftermarket network in domestic and the Europe region to cater the replacement parts demand.

We at Comstar constantly challenge ourselves to improve and excel in Quality, Speed, Process and Performance to provide best solutions to our customers.

Our long-term vision expresses our desire to be a responsible company, delivering world class products with passion and speed. Quality is a way of life that reflects in whatever we do.

“Comstar will capture over 20% market share of global automotive starter business by 2040”

QUALITY

PERFORMANCE

4 FOCAL POINT

SPEED

PROCESS

BRIDGING OPPORTUNITIES CEO Desk: Comstar today is one of the largest producers of starting and charging systems in India. The challenge is to ensure competitive pricing with best in class quality levels. It is very easy to lose market share to the competition if we don’t think ahead of the OEMs. Customer expectations on concurrent and collaborative engineering are the order of the day - Sat Mohan Gupta

QUICK FACTS Headquarters Chennai, India Plants •Maraimalainagar, Chennai, India (1998) •Tecumseh, Michigan, USA (2013) •Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China(2016)

Production Capacity: Starters: •India -3.8 million units •USA - 0.8 million units •China- 0.5 million units Alternators •India- 1.0 million units

MILESTONE 1999

2007

2009

Launch of India plant, commence supplies to Ford Europe & SA

Domestic business started with Tata Motors

Launch of stop start starters with Volvo, Won AL-N Business

2013

2014

2015

Launch of NA Plant

Won business from Geely, China

Won business from Renault Nissan

BEST IN CLASS MANUFACTURING Comstar India has evolved as a facility for manufacturing excellence over a period of 15 years. Comstar’ s has a track record of maintaining ZERO PPM for 18 months and the Current quality levels is on single digit for last 4 years and much below the benchmark commodity PPM by OE’s Visual Factory is a way of life and ‘Two BIN’ system perfectly gels with the PULL based lean manufacturing practices. Comstar employs a very fair mix of fully automatic, semi-automatic and manual process - handled by highly motivated teams.

HIGHLIGHTS •

Conveyorized assembly line

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Poke yokes and controls at each station with pallet release interlock.

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Electronic Nut runners for Torque and Angle monitoring at all torque stations.

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Unidirectional assembly

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100% Load monitoring in critical press Stations

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Tool change alarm & Maintenance alarm build in PLC LOGIC.

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100% EOL testing before packing.

TRANSFORMING TECHNOLOGY INTO EXPERIENCES Our design departments consists of a team of higly qualified engineers involved in delivering robust, successful and cost effective products. Our team’s exposure with global carmakers provides us an edge in delivering best in class products matching the Industry needs.

TESTING CAPABILITIES

DESIGN CAPABILITIES

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THERMAL CHAMBER

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2D AND 3D DESIGN SOFTWARES

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ENGINE SIMULATOR

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MATLAB

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ENGINE LAB

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SPEED

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STABILIZED PERFORMANCE TEST

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FEA

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VIBRATION TEST

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SALT SPRAY TEST

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PERFORMANCE TEST

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DURABILITY TEST

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COLD ROOM -20

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ELECTRICAL BV TEST

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MAGNETIC TEST

EXPERIENCING INNOVATION Comstar develops starter motors and alterntors for passenger and commercials vehicles.Our product portfolio has diversified starting and charging systems, which goes into different automotive applications ranging from Converntional engines to hybrid engines.

We come with huge amount of experience in coventional and start-stop starters, catering to major carmakers across the globe. Growing Industry focus on hybrid vehicles has driven us to develop high performance Integrated starter generators. Integerated starter generators along with start-stop starters are the need of the hour for the auto OEMs to meet the emission standards.

FEATURES • High power to weight ratio • Tempertature range capability of -400C to 1800C • Low Noise and High Durability • Corrosion Protection • Start- Stop capability up to 3,50,000 cycles

FEATURES

YOU TRUST WE DELIVER

AWARDS & CERTIFICATIONS:

Gothenburg Ypsilanti Tecumseh

Genk

cologne Chengdu

Hiroshima Hangzhou

Mexico (2016) Chennai

Manufacturing / Assembly Facility Research & Development European Sales Office Warehouse

HEADQUARTERS Comstar Automotive Technologies Pvt Ltd Keelakaranai Village, Malrosapuram Post Maraimalainagar, Chengalpattu – 603204 Tamilnadu, India Phone: +91 44 37473700 Fax: +91 44 37473737 www.comstarauto.com Email:marketing@comstarauto.com

North America Assembly Plant Comstar Automotive LLC USA 900 Industrial Drive, Tecumseh, MI – 49286 Email: NAmarketing@comstarauto.com