The tyre industry has done well to keep the wheels of the nation rolling in a pandemic marred financial year. Ashish Bhatia gets the stakeholders to reflect on the changes, for good and bad, in an ongoing series of engaging conversations. The Financial Year 2021 (FY2021) began by casting a shadow over the tyre industry’s growth prospects. Believed to be[Read More…]
The Union Budget 2021 attempts to offer the necessary “succour” to the automotive components industry. Ashish Bhatia takes you through the key budgeted allocations and brings out the expert opinions. The Union Budget 2021 was deemed as the “once in a century budget” even before it was made public. After a pandemic marred 2020, the ask was for bold reforms[Read More…]
Largely constituting MSMEs, non-ferrous metal component manufacturers are striving hard to stage a recovery from the pandemic induced degrowth. Ashish Bhatia with inputs from Deven Lad traces the headwinds and tailwinds around ancillaries based out of Asia’s largest brass micro-market. An alloy of copper and zinc in varying proportions, all through the pandemic, the non-ferrous metal ancillaries have recorded a[Read More…]
Panasonic Automotive Systems India banks on strategic cornerstones to grow the business. Story by: Team ACI Panasonic Automotive Systems India (PASI) is building on its capabilities. The company is focussed on ‘Development’, ‘Manufacture’ and ‘Sale’ as the strategic cornerstones for growth in the automotive components segment. The auto components and parts in the fray include infotainment solutions including audio, video[Read More…]
Continental AG used the capital market days to share the far-reaching aspects of its performance and strategy. Story by: Ashish Bhatia The ‘Capital Market Days’ are an ideal window to offer a broader perspective. Continental AG held it between December 8-16’ 2020 in a rather comprehensive schedule, claimed to be a first for the company. The objective was to ensure[Read More…]
The International Centre for Automotive Technology is playing to its strengths in the automotive domain, to help the industry fastrack recovery. Story by: Deepti Thore The International Centre for Automotive Technology (ICAT) is playing to its strengths across automotive design and engineering, research and development, testing and validation services. The objective is to help the stakeholders of the industry with[Read More…]
The Pune-based Central Institute of Road Transport is regaining the lost momentum in 2020 to attain new highs. Story by: Ashish Bhatia The Pune-based Central Institute of Road Transport (CIRT) was no exception to plans going awry for organisations in a pandemic-hit 2020. Braving the catastrophe with cautious optimism, CIRT is fast regaining the lost momentum in 2020. It is[Read More…]
ION Energy is optimising EV powertrains and energy storage systems through advanced battery management systems. Story by: Deepti Thore ION Energy Inc (ION) is on a mission! A mission to improve the life and performance of lithium-ion batteries. Be it battery packs powering EV powertrains or Energy Storage Systems (ESS) that are in vogue with economies the world over-committing to[Read More…]
At the 3DExperience Forum 2020, Dassault Systemes focussed on attaining leadership in manufacturing and infrastructure, in a post-Covid era. Story by: Ashish Bhatia With inputs from Deven Lad Dassault Systemes 3DExperience Forum 2020 was different this year. Held virtually, it focussed on learnings derived from a once in a century occurrence – SARS-CoV-2. It also discussed in-depth, the role of[Read More…]
Universal Robots is optimising cobot deployment on shopfloors to meet the emerging needs across the automotive value chain. Story by: Deepti Thore Automation with human collaboration has grown from strength to strength with more and more stakeholders of the automotive industry coming forward to pilot it. The Sars-CoV-2 might have only compelled the industry to leapfrog much before envisioned.[Read More…]
