At Manesar, Maruti is runs 2 plants, and it is scheduling for ninety nine percent mechanization in the press shop wheel, where sheets made in steel are shaped into door frames and then it is send to the weld shop to pivot them into the vehicle’s body.

MM Singh, Chief Operation Officer (COO, production), said that they are steadily planning to mechanize their Indian plants to get consistency in there car’s quality. He said that they have already initiated the procedure at the first plant at Manesar, to make the mechanization attain the utmost 99% level, where the welding and pressing procedures will be matching the 2nd manfactruing capacity.

Mr. Singh further said that From Sep, 2011, the 2nd capacity has commenced operations. Over the period of time every innovative lines upcoming in Gurgaon would be mechanized on identical lines.

The auto giant has been gradually augmenting the mechanization of its Indian plants. In more than ten years, the organization has in twofold increased the robots’ number utilized in the plants to about 1500. It will increase an additional fifty to hundred innovative robots in the antique facility at Manesar to augment mechanization to ninety nine percent from the present ninety percent. However the organization did not expose, when this procedure will be finished.

In the past few years, Maruti has augmented the mechanization percentage in its 3 plants situated in Guragaon to almost sixty to sixty five percent. It has halted its operations of 2 physical productions located at Guragaon in an attempt to shift to completely mechanized operations.

Mechanization has become a grave subject for the biggest car manufacture in the county following a sequence of strikes by the perpetual workers carried out last year. A colossal aggression broke out on July 18 at its plant in Manesar that lead to the death of a senior manager. Ninety six workers were fatally injured in this grave violence.

The older models such as Alto & Maruti 800 are easy vehicle to manufacture. On the other hand, the new generation cars such as Swift, Ritz or A-Star are somewhat intricate and it requires a much more enhanced techonology & procedure. Automaton serves as cost-effective investment and unlike the increasing labor costs, over a time period, it can be recovered