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Gold Sponsors
Microsoft solutions empower excellence in the automotive industry through better collaboration, integration, and dissemination of information across the whole value chain. Microsoft and its extensive partner ecosystem provides solutions addressing accelerated innovation and product development, lean manufacturing operations, integrated flexible global supply chains, and superior sales and customer service experiences. Computer platforms — extending from car to enterprise to cloud — enable transparency and insight, drive faster and better decision making, and empower people to improve business processes and maximize opportunities.
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Siemens offers a uniquely complete range of products, systems and solutions that are perfectly attuned to the needs of the automotive industry. Through our innovations we contribute substantially to our customers’ competitiveness on a global scale.
What counts in the automotive industry is a stable and trustworthy partnership between customer and supplier. Siemens answer to this is an automotive community that unifies the technical know-how and industry competence of a globally-experienced company. Within our Corporate Account Management we maintain a long-term commitment to our partners and deliver the best possible customer support.
Vertical Market Management Automotive
As a partner of Corporate Account Management, VMM Automotive coordinates products and systems business for large projects, from acquisition through to the start of production.
Solutions Team
The Solutions Team elaborates and implements complete solutions for the automotive industry, including automation, assembly and conveyor technology, production logistics, test equipment and diagnostics.
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Uddeholm is the world’s leading supplier of tooling materials. Long tradition combined with research and product development equips Uddeholm to solve any tooling problem that may arise.
The worldwide automotive industry is one of our most important market sectors. Every single part of a car is shaped in dies made of tool steel. The Uddeholm speciality is to produce specific tool steel for all of these various components. Instead of selling just a piece of steel, we sell a full package.
Throughout our history, working closely with our customers has been a vital part of our business. Our presence on every continent guarantees the same high-quality Swedish tool steel wherever you have your business.
Silver Sponsors
ABB Robotics is a leading supplier of industrial robots and related software, peripheral equipment, and modular manufacturing cells used in processes such as welding, material handling, assembly, painting and finishing, picking, packing, palletizing and machine tending. Key market sectors include the automotive, plastics, metal fabrication, foundry, electronics, machine tools, pharmaceutical and food and beverage industries. Focused on delivering solutions and service, ABB helps manufacturers to improve productivity, product quality and worker safety. We have installed more than 190,000 robots worldwide.
Castrol Industrial is acknowledged as the world’s leading provider of lubrication solutions. Castrol’s comprehensive range of world-class metalworking fluids and lubricants, positively impact the productivity, quality and costs in the manufacturing operations of customers.
Global expertise, the latest thinking, the most advanced technologies, the highest quality ingredients….all are utilized in Castrol’s leading edge metalworking fluids and lubricants that are specifically designed to deliver what customers seek.
- Higher productivity and extended equipment life.
- Lower overall cost and reduced waste.
In India, Castrol has one of the largest manufacturing and marketing network amongst the lubricant companies in India. Castrol has clearly demonstrated its commitment to Indian consumers for over 100 years, by offering its international range of high performance products backed by the highest level of customer service.
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Dürr has been active in India for nearly 50 years, with a local presence for over 20 years. Nearly all of Dürr’s business units with their complete innovative product portfolio are active in India, offering high quality paint and final assembly systems, application technology, balancing and diagnostic machines, as well as environmental systems. Dürr’s wide array of activities in India also includes industrial cleaning and automation solutions and consulting. Dürr has made India an important hub for their worldwide Engineering activities offering its customers international know-how and local experience.
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EISENMANN is a leading international supplier of systems for surface finishing, material flow automation, process and high-temperature technologies and the environment. Our employees in Europe, North America and the BRIC countries design and build highly-flexible, energy and resource efficient plants for customers in the automotive and supply industries.
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Kennametal Inc. delivers productivity to customers seeking peak performance in demanding environments through innovative custom and standard wear-resistant solutions. This proven productivity is enabled through our advanced materials sciences and application knowledge, while our commitment to a sustainable environment provides additional value. Companies operating in everything from airframes to coal mining, engines to oil wells and turbochargers to construction recognize Kennametal for extraordinary contributions to their value chains. In fiscal year 2009, customers bought approximately $2.0 billion of Kennametal products and services – delivered by nearly 12,000 talented employees across 60 countries. Over half these revenues came from outside North America.
Kremlin-Rexson and Sames are experts in Finishing and Extrusion solutions. For 90 years we have been offering a wide range of pumps and spraying solutions dedicated to the protection of materials and applications of powder, paint, sealant and adhesives. We design, manufacture and commercialize turn-key systems supplier for painting and dispensing systems either manual or robotic. With 50 years of experience in Automotive, we bring our know-how to provide World Class solutions for OEMs and Tiers One.
Our global headquarters are located in Stains close to Paris and Grenoble in the French Alps.
Kremlin-Rexson and Sames employ 550 people worldwide through 16 subsidiaries located close to our customers manufacturing premises.
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KUKA Robotics India Pvt. Ltd. is a part of the worldwide operating KUKA Robot Group. With Indian operations headquartered in Gurgaon, KUKA India has a state of the art Service and Training centre in Pune. Today KUKA India’s key clientele include most of the major automobile and other engineering as well as non-engineering companies.
KUKA Systems India Pvt. Ltd. is a 100% subsidiary of KUKA Systems GmbH, Germany and has operated in India since 2007 under full guidance & support from Germany. We provide Body-in-White, Assembly Lines and all types of welding solutions for Automotive Industry and General Industry. KUKA India strives to maintain the standards in India under the supervision of KUKA Germany colleagues. The design/ technology offered by KUKA is the same offered globally.
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Sandvik Coromant is a world-leading supplier of cutting tools and tooling systems for the metalworking industry. 25 state-of-the art Productivity Centers located across130 countries provide customers and staff with continuous training in tooling solutions and methods to increase productivity. Sandvik Coromant is part of the Tooling business area of the Sandvik Group.
Sandvik Coromant India:Sandvik Coromant has completed over 50 years in India. Technically qualified and competent Productivity Improvement Engineers are located across India to deliver solutions to our customers tirelessly and a strong network of authorised distributors work to enhance service standards and provide better value to customers throughout the metalworking field; including the world's major automotive and aerospace industries, the die and mould industry and general engineering industries.
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As the global specialist in energy management with operations in more than 100 countries, Schneider Electric offers integrated solutions across multiple market segments, including leadership positions in energy and infrastructure, industrial processes, building automation, and data centers/networks, as well as a broad presence in residential applications. Focused on making energy safe, reliable, and efficient, the company's 110,000+ employees achieved sales of more than 20 billion euros in 2010, through an active commitment to help individuals and organizations “Make the most of their energy”.
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Taikisha Engineering India Ltd. (TEIL) is a Joint Venture Company with M/s. Taikisha Ltd., Japan. TEIL has been operating successfully for over 16 years -catering to various customers and have installed numerous plants all across India.
TEIL has its own Automation & Control Panel Manufacturing Factory in IMT Manesar-Haryana and a Sheet Metal & Fabricated Equipment Manufacturing Factory in Pune-Maharashtra & also setting up new manufacturing plant in Gujarat. TEIL works with its group of companies to produce high quality products & timely project delivery.
Recent Taikisha’s alliance with Geico is going to further benefit our various clients in terms of ability to offer much wider technology for all our clients across the globe.
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With sales totaling US $ 2.763 billion (€ 2.025 billion) and 8,550 employees (preliminary figures for the 2010/11 fiscal year), the TRUMPF Group ranks among the leading manufacturing companies worldwide. The three following business divisions are combined under the umbrella of a 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 in the world market. With about 60 subsidiaries and branch offices, the Group is represented in almost every European country, in North and South America as well as in Asia.
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WIDIA has defined innovation in metal cutting for over 80 years — from the world’s first patent for carbide indexable inserts to the first coated grades. Today, WIDIA is recognised for contributing significantly to customers’ value chains, through a complete portfolio of precision-engineered milling, turning, and holemaking products, tooling systems and custom solution services.
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Bronze Sponsors
AIDA is the premier global manufacturer of metal forming presses. At the same time, the company continues to lead development of new and innovative stamping solutions. AIDA worldwide boasts approximately 2 million square feet of manufacturing space, more than 1,500 associates and a press manufacturing capacity exceeding 2,000 presses per year, making AIDA, in units produced, one of the largest press manufacturers in the world.Aida Website 
COMBAT has been in turnkey plant engineering for Automotive and Industrial Finishing Systems for more than 30 years in Malaysia and the surrounding regions. COMBAT has also built more than 380 painting plants in all facets of manufacturing industries.
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Omni-ID is the leading supplier of passive UHF RFID solutions. Our patented technology enables a broad range of applications to improve asset tracking and supply chain management. These versatile RFID tags work in the harshest environments, including on, off metal and near liquids. We solve tracking and identification challenges with unprecedented accuracy.
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PTC is all about helping discrete manufacturers succeed by meeting their globalisation, time-to-market, and operational efficiency objectives in product development. As one of the world's largest and fastest-growing software companies, we deliver a complete portfolio of integral Product Lifecycle Management solutions to over 25,000 customers in the Industrial, High Tech, Aerospace & Defense, Automotive, Consumer, and Medical Device industries.
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Headquartered in Germany, SICK Group has been a partner to the automotive industry since 1946. The company is a leading global supplier of sensor solutions for factory automation, logistics automation and process automation. Based on a broad sensor portfolio that includes a series of cutting-edge innovations, SICK had a turnover of approximately EUR 750 million in 2010. Your global support is ensured by more than 5,400 staff located in 86 countries.
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SSAB is a global leader in value added, high strength steel. SSAB offers products developed in close cooperation with its customers to create a stronger, lighter and more sustainable world. SSAB has employees in over 45 countries and operates production facilities in Sweden and the US. SSAB is listed on the NASDAQ OMX Nordic Exchange, Stockholm.
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TAL Manufacturing Solutions Ltd, a Tata enterprise, is focused on offering cost-effective and total solutions in the field of manufacturing engineering. Tal’s headquarters are in Pune.
TAL's international-standard technology makes it a premier player in the Machine tools, Painting Systems, Robotics, Testing equipments, Material Handling, Aerospace, Fluid Power & Defense Solutions industries.
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TORNOS is widely known as a specialist in the manufacture of Swiss type lathes machines for turning parts from bars or billets.
TORNOS has expanded its product lines and now offers a wide range of products. The main lines consist of the EvoDECO, DECO, Sigma, Gamma and Delta single spindle sliding headstock automatic turning machines, MultiDECO, MultiSigma and MultiAlpha multi-spindle turning machines and the multi-spindle camoperated SAS 16.6.
Since 2008 Tornos offers also a line of high precision machining centres.
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Technology Partner
IBM is the only IT company in India, and across the world, that offers end-to-end services and solutions – hardware, software, services and consulting – enabling clients to derive unmatched value by solving complex business and technical challenges. In India IBM has offices in 22 cities, with headquarters in Bangalore and regional offices in New Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata and Chennai. India is also home to IBM’s largest global delivery teams across Infrastructure, Applications, Consulting, and Business Process Outsourcing. IBM India's solutions and services span all major industries, including the Automotive Sector.
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