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Auto Industry’s Skill Reset: From Mechanical to Digital-First Roles

India's OEMs pair human talent with AI co-pilots, VR simulators and gamified hiring to rebuild shop floors for Industry 4.0.

29 Apr 2026 | 16103 Views | By Shahkar Abidi

In a bustling service bay at the Ashok Leyland plant in Tamil Nadu, a technician faces a repair on one of over 10,300 vehicle variants. Instead of leafing through thousands of pages of greasy paper manuals, he taps a tablet and engages "Ask AI," a generative-AI-powered digital co-pilot. Within seconds, ...

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