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40% of India’s $8.3B Auto Capex is Earmarked for Automation
In the race of global automotive manufacturing, automation is no longer a choice, it is the only road left.
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On May 21, 2000, a young Rajesh Sharma stood on a fourth-floor observation platform overlooking an automotive assembly plant in Japan and saw nothing but darkness. As head of new product introduction and strategy at Honda Siel Cars India Ltd, who had recently helped commission a largely manual plant in Greater Noida, where workers toiled through the day with wrenches and screwdrivers, the void was unsettling. Then, his Japanese guide uttered a single word: “Gijitsu” (Technology).
As the lights flickered on, Sharma realized he was witnessing the future: a sea of 1,500 robots performing welding, dispensing, sealing, and tightening ...
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