Nirmal K Minda, Chairman and Managing Director, of Uno Minda Group spoke upfront to Ashish Bhatia on the road ahead for component suppliers and the next tipping point on the horizon. Q. Is the post-pandemic recovery that accounted for a record turnover, sustainable going forward for the tier 1 suppliers like yourself? A. We faced tough times in the[Read More…]
Where there is hardware there is software. Assembly and machine-level programming have been around for years. Prateek Pardeshi visited a leading aftermarket player to understand the change in approach today. It is well known how the low-level binary skeleton of Assembly Language Programming (ALP) coexists with Machine Level Language (MLL). The latter converts ALP using an assembler and can be[Read More…]
Pilloo C.Aga – Director of GoldSeal – SaarGummi India Pvt. Ltd., a Joint Venture of Gold Seal of India & SaarGummi of Germany speaks upfront to Ashish Bhatia on the buoyant sentiment and the bold government. Q. What is the significance of the supplier industry gathering under one roof and deliberating on key issues after a three-year hiatus in the[Read More…]
In an upfront conversation, Sanjeev Vasdev – Managing Director at Flash Electronics (India) Pvt. Ltd. spoke to Ashish Bhatia about the company strengthening its capabilities for realising projected growth. Q. What is the direct bearing of the collaboration with Polish Group Elimen on your growth aspirations across the PV and CV segments? A. Flash is one of the first companies[Read More…]
In an upfront conversation Vikram Pawah, President and CEO at BMW India spoke to Ashish Bhatia where he hailed the supplier support for higher localised content per vehicle-led growth. Q. How do you gauge the industry sentiment against the backdrop of volumes reaching pre-pandemic peaks? A. The real sentiment that has been coming to the surface is quite strong. After[Read More…]
In an upfront conversation, Vinodh Kumar, Assistant General Manager – Operations at Rane Brake Lining Ltd. speaks to Ashish Bhatia. The company bagged a QCT excellence award at the ACMA Annual Summit 2022 and subsequently, the Group bagged the Deming Prize. Q. What is your take on the upbeat sentiment of the auto components suppliers that work behind the[Read More…]
In an industry talk session, Satish Sharma, President of the Asia Pacific, Middle East & Africa (APMEA), Apollo Tyres Ltd. and Chairman, Automotive Tyre Manufacturers Association (ATMA), speaks to Ashish Bhatia on the need to re-imagine a meaningful business. Q. What is your broad-based analysis of the industry sentiment?A. The industry has seen a fair amount of a rather tough[Read More…]
In an upfront session, Raghavendra Vaidya, Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer, DTICI speaks to Ashish Bhatia about the innovation centre as the nerve centre for cracking complex problems at Daimler Truck AG, globally. Q. What compelled the commissioning of an innovation centre outside Germany when Mercedes Benz Research and Development India (MBRDI) was to an extent looking at trucks?[Read More…]
In an exclusive upfront interaction, Rajesh R, Vice President of Defence and Power Solution Business, Ashok Leyland Ltd. speaks to Prateek Pardeshi on CEV engines taking a cleaner route. Q. What is the ideology behind introducing CNG in CVs (haulage and people movers) and CEV segments? A. For the CV industry, CNG already exists in our portfolio. However, for the[Read More…]
In an UpFront conversation, Renuka Srinivasan, Sales Director (SIMULIA) – Dassault Systèmes speaks to Sumesh Soman on the importance of crash test simulation and how active and passive safety is now becoming sought after in the Indian automotive market. Q. What is the future of crash test optimisation in the Indian automotive industry? How is it linked to Dassault Systemes[Read More…]
