Wednesday, February 6, 2008

Local Innovation

I am so impressed by the innovation and wanted to find out more on who and how the innovations were made, to my pleasant surprise its majorly LOCAL. Lets just look at some of the examples - the assembly line for TATA Nano is designed by one of Bangalore based companies called SPM and they have done a phenominal job by designing the assemblyline at less than half the cost of what it would have normally cost by sourcing fromthe right places directly. The assembly line can roll out engines every 40 sec and had the latest technology like RFID.

Every supplier has had to look at lowering or optimising the cost which could fuel, lets look at another example of Delphi who have designed the instrument panel and to keep costs under control they have looked at the angle carefully so that reflections don't fall on driver and thus eliminated the anti glare.

There are many more such examples and will cover in future posts.

Think Innovation as impossible is nothing.

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