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About Microsoft in Automotive
Microsoft has been working with the automotive industry for more than a decade. The Microsoft Automotive and Industrial Equipment vertical works with industry partners to develop solutions based on Microsoft technologies that enable original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), suppliers and customers to improve efficiency, effectiveness and knowledge across the business.
Business applications, Microsoft.NET Framework-based technologies and enterprise platform support help manufacturers accelerate time to market, collaborate globally with engineers, reduce costs by leveraging the power of the Internet, and increase visibility into their production and supply chain processes. More information can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/automotive.
About Microsoft
Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq “MSFT”) is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.
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Siemens started operations in India in 1956 with a manufacturing facility under the Mahalaxmi bridge and was incorporated as a Company in 1957 with headquarters in Mumbai. The Siemens Group in India is a unique player in the field of electrical and electronics engineering with a business volume aggregating about Rs 11,000 crores. It operates in the core business segments of Industry, Energy and Healthcare. The group’s business is represented by various companies that span across these various segments. Siemens brings to India leading technology that adds value to customers through a combination of multiple high-end technologies for complete solutions. The Group has the competence and capability to integrate all products, systems and services. Siemens is the worldwide leading manufacturer in the field of automation and plays a key role in India’s quest for developing infrastructure. It develops and delivers not only innovative products and components but also tailored manufacturing solutions for the whole automotive plant. With its comprehensive industry-specific expertise and unique customer support Siemens accompanies the vehicle manufacturers as well as machine and line builders throughout the entire life cycle. The Siemens Group in India comprises of 20 legal entities, providing direct employment to about 17,200 persons. Currently, the group has 19 manufacturing plants, a wide network up of Sales and Service offices across the country as well as over 500 channel partners. For the fiscal 2008, Siemens Ltd. sales stood at Rs. 82,955 million, New Orders at Rs. 87,182 million and the company posted Net Profit of Rs. 5,933 million.
Uddeholm is world leader in providing value in tooling and other applications that demand high performance materials and solutions.
Uddeholm is close to its customers in more than 100 countries around the world, where highly qualified service staff are at your service with advice, support and quick deliveries.
The value of Uddeholm’s solutions is built on its branded programme of tooling materials. The programme includes several grades of own development with unique properties and very high performance. Thousands of people within the group are working hard to ensure that the company always has the best value to offer its customers.
Choosing the right steel is of vital importance. It enables you to improve your productivity and cost efficiency, thereby reaching new goals in your everyday business. Uddeholm’s goal is clear – to be your number one partner and tool steel provider.
ASSAB is part of the Uddeholm group. Together, the companies are the world’s leading tool steel supplier, and operates worldwide, thus there is always an ASSAB or Uddeholm representative close at hand to give local advice and support. It is all a matter of trust – in long-term partnerships as well as in developing new products. Trust is something you earn, every day.
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ABB (www.abb.com) is a leader in power and automation technologies that enable utility and industry customers to improve their performance while lowering environmental impact. The ABB Group of companies operates in around 100 countries and employs about 115,000 people. ABB ROBOTICS ABB is a leading supplier of industrial robots and also provides robot software, peripheral equipment, modular manufacturing cells and service for tasks such as welding, handling, assembly, painting and finishing, picking, packing, palletizing and machine tending. Key markets include automotive, plastics, metal fabrication, foundry, electronics, machine tools, pharmaceutical and food and beverage industries. ABB ROBOTICS IN INDIA ABB’s Robotics Centre in India is located in Bangalore. It has sales and service offices in other locations including Pune, Faridabad, and Chennai. It serves both automotive and general industry customers with products, solutions and services. ABB Website 
Leader in the field of original coating plants for the vehicle industry, Geico has displayed dynamic growth from its beginnings as a Drysys Carrier branch in Italy in early ‘60s, to its current position as a main general contractor in the international market. Committed to a policy of continuous research, development and innovation, Geico has built its reputation for technical expertise, design skills and effective project management to meet and exceed its customers’ critical expectations. Becoming the sole owner of Haden’s and Drysys’s IPs, patents and trademarks and being the founder of the allGeicoproject, Geico guarantees its presence and technical-commercial assistance all over the world while valorising the different cultures and safeguarding the local characteristics. Geico website 
Kennametal Inc. delivers productivity to customers seeking peak performance in demanding environments by providing innovative custom and standard wear-resistant solutions. This proven productivity is enabled through our advanced materials sciences and application knowledge. Our commitment to a sustainable environment provides additional value to our customers. Companies across industry segments recognise Kennametal’s extraordinary contributions to their value chains. In fiscal year 2009, customers bought approximately $2.0 billion of Kennametal products and services – delivered by our nearly 12,000 talented employees doing business in more than 60 countries – with more than 50 percent of these revenues coming from outside North America. SPOTLIGHT ON RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT Continuous commitment to R&D efforts and fostering breakthrough technologies allows us to create cutting edge solutions for our customers. • More than 700 highly trained and experienced research scientists & development engineers • Averaging over 40 U.S. Patents each year • More than 40% of sales from products less than 5 years old • Four-time Best-Practice Partner as named by APQC - Best-Practice Partner in Product and Service Innovation: Improving Front End Effectiveness – 2008 - Product Development Portfolio Management – 2006 - Best-Practice Partner in Innovation – 2005 - Best-Practice Partner in R&D Productivity – 2004 • Recipient of Carnegie Science Center Award of Excellence - Corporate Innovation – 2007 - Advanced Manufacturing – 2009 Sandvik Coromant is the world's leading manufacturer of cutting tools for the metalworking industry, with more than 25,000 products. In 60 countries around the world, around the clock, thousands of specialists deliver solutions to our customers. Sandvik Coromant in India was founded on July 8th, 1960 in Pune where also the Head Office is located. The Sandvik Coromant operations in India covers all India and neighboring countries of Bangladesh, Nepal, Bhutan and Sri Lanka with our 12 Sales Branches with a strong and well trained sales force of more than seventy expert Sales Engineers and with a distributor network of around 60 Dealers. The Business Philosophy is to market and sell products and solutions/services to the metalworking industry and thereby improving the productivity of companies using state of the art cutting tools in their metalworking operations. As a global specialist in energy management, Schneider Electric (€18.3 billion sales 2008, 114000 employees, > 100 countries) offers integrated solutions making energy safe, reliable, efficient and productive. Focusing on Energy efficiency we offer energy audits, energy efficiency enabling products and energy management solutions, helping individuals and organisations “Make the most of their energyTM”.
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| Taikisha is a pioneer in turnkey solutions for the set-up of complete painting plants for the automotive industry and other critical applications where components are exposed to severe environmental conditions. Taikisha Engineering India was established in 1995 and has set up more than 100 plants across India. Currently, the company has about 240 employees with offices in Gurgaon, New Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore and manufacturing plants in IMT, Manesar-Haryana and Pune. The main strength of Taikisha India is its unconditional support to its clients in understanding their difficulties and suggesting cost-effective solutions. With sales totaling €1.94 billion for the 2006/07 fiscal year and more than 7,800 employees, the TRUMPF Group ranks among the leading manufacturing companies worldwide.
The three business divisions are combined under the umbrella of the holding company: Machine Tools/Power Tools, Laser Technology/Electronics and Medical Technology. Its core business is machine tools for flexible sheet metal processing for punching and forming, laser processing and bending. In the field of industrial lasers and laser systems, the company is the technological leader on the world market.
With about 50 subsidiaries and branch offices, the Group is represented in almost every European country, in North and South America as well as in Asia. Production locations can be found in Germany, France, Austria, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Poland, China, Taiwan, Mexico and the USA.
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| AIDA is the premier global manufacturer of metalforming presses and continues to take the lead in developing new and innovative stamping solutions.
AIDA worldwide boasts approximately 2 million square feet of manufacturing space, more than1500 associates and a press manufacturing capacity exceeding 2000 presses per year, making AIDA, in units produced, one of the largest press manufacturers in the world. |
| Combat Enterprise (M) Sdn.Bhd.has been in turnkey plant engineering for Automotive and Industrial Finishing System for more than 30 years in Malaysia and the region. We have built more than 380 painting plants in all facets of manufacturing industries. The Dürr Group is a supplier of plant and equipment that commands leading global market positions in its areas of activity. Business with the automotive industry accounts for about 85% of its sales. Dürr also supplies innovative manufacturing and environmental technologies for the aircraft, mechanical engineering, chemical and pharmaceutical industries.  DVA has supplied vehicle closure hemming systems to many of the world’s major Automotive OEM and Tier 1 manufacturers since it was founded in the UK in 1989. DVA manufactures a comprehensive range of solutions from electro-mechanical table top peripheral and aperture hemming machines to robot hemming systems and complete turnkey closure assembly lines. Haden International Group Haden India is a MacLellan USA Group company providing Turnkey Paint Finishing & Material handling Solutions. For 30 years, with our in-depth application engineering know-how, more than 220 plants installed and a team of 60 strong engineering professionals, we are the preferred source for our esteemed clientele from Automotive, Agricultural, Construction & General Industry segments.
Maclellan Intergrated Services
MacLellan is a leading provider of Integrated Services and facility management to industries and commercial properties that help customers reduce costs and improve their strategic competitive advantage. It is a major player in Automotive sector in the USA and India.
The company also caters to pharmaceutical, engineering, electronic and process industries and commercial properties in operating and maintaining their Utilities, Building Services and infrastructure and soft services.
MacLellan is synonymous with Integrated “Partnerships” with its customers.
Hero Motors Ltd, a part of $4.5bn Hero Group of India is engaged in the business of Process Outsourcing of manufacturing & engineering. The company works for world’s leading companies to provide complete solutions of design, development, manufacturing and logistics management. Like Hero Honda and Hero Cycles, focused on to a tight domain and become world leaders, Hero motors has been serving esteemed customers in the field of transmission, ferrous casting & chassis systems to BMW, Bombarbier, GM, Suzuki, Toyota, Nissan, LG & others. US $1.4 B HIROTEC Group – Japan (more information in the weblinks) Group Overview: • Established in 1932 • Headquarter: Hiroshima, Japan • 15 Companies, 21 Facilities, 9 Countries • Employee Headcount: 3,500 Main Products: • BIW Stamping and Assembly parts – Delivers over 7 million closures annually • Exhaust Systems – Delivers 1.5 million systems annually • BIW Tooling – Stamping Dies – Bodyshop Assembly Tooling Hirotec America & KGHirotec Part of US $1.4 B Hirotec Group – Japan • Tier-1 Supplier of Closure Systems Tooling • Received multiple “Supplier of the Year” Awards – GM, Ford & MAZDA KGHirotec’s Mission: To delight our customers in the Global Engineering Industry by providing Complete, High Quality, Timely and Cost effective Solutions |
| Rockwell Automation provides industrial automation control and information ranging from stand-alone, industrial components to enterprise-wide integrated systems. Its solutions have proven successful across a wide range of industries and in some of the most demanding manufacturing environments, with end users and OEMs in over 80 countries relying on its comprehensive portfolio of products. Stadco is the UK’s largest tier 1 supplier of BiW stampings & assemblies and is the only one to also have a full product development capability from concepts & styling development through detailed engineering & CAE analysis to full BiW prototype manufacture and production facility development and implementation. Stadco has manufacturing facilities in the UK, Germany & Russia and Engineering centres in the UK, India and Brazil. Stadco has been doing business with India for 15 years is in the process of expanding its Indian operations to include prototype manufacture and volume production manufacturing. |
| TAL Manufacturing Solutions Ltd, a Tata Enterprise company, focused on offering cost-effective and integrated solutions in automotive manufacturing and general engineering.
With more than 30 years of experience, TAL's international-standard technology and its team of skilled professionals make it a premier player in machine tools, paintshops, fixtures, robotics, material handling solutions and fluid power solutions industries.
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The Harbour Report™ team is now fully integrated part of Oliver Wyman, a global automotive consulting firm with broad resources across the full value chain of automotive design, engineering, manufacture, sales and marketing . Oliver Wyman acquired Harbour Consulting in January 2008 and now publishes The Harbour Report™, the annual competitive analysis of plant-floor performance of automakers.
Mr. Ron Harbour co-authored and developed “The Harbour Report™ ” in 1989, a publication that has grown to be the pre-eminent annual assessment of automotive manufacturing performance around the globe. Through publication of this research, Mr. Harbour and Michelle Hill as well as the team have visited most of the world’s auto plants, and regularly tour 40 – 50 factories every year.
The Harbour Report™ completed its 19th year of documenting manufacturing improvement in the North America auto industry and the 14th for Europe. The South American edition, completed its third year and continues to add participants and plants in the fast growing Mercosur region.
The Harbour Report™ is a valuable benchmarking tool that automakers can use to improve and sustain their quality and productivity. The report contains performance data for more than 150 assembly, stamping and powertrain plants, including plant-by-plant and company-by-company productivity rankings, as well as detailed tables and trend charts, and a separate section covering the strengths and weaknesses of each company.
The Harbour Report™ team is committed to keeping the report the most comprehensive and thorough source of benchmarking automotive industry performance. The team is currently expanding the report to include manufacturers and plants globally including South Africa, Asia and India.
Mr. Harbour is in high demand as a speaker on automotive manufacturing performance to industry and investor organizations and is regularly quoted and interviewed in media publications, TV, radio and internet.
Ron Harbour is Oliver Wyman‘s Global Partner of Automotive Manufacturing and Partner of the North American automotive practice in Detroit. Mr. Harbour was the owner and President of Harbour Consulting prior to its acquisition by Oliver Wyman in 2008.
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