50 Manufacturing Companies – Honda 2Wheelers india

Honda 2Wheelers’ prime focus has always been using safe, high quality, efficient and environment-friendly processes to manufacture its products. It is benchmarking its manufacturing processes on the shop floor with Honda’s global plants in Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam. Its latest plant in Gujarat is Honda’s first 2-wheeler plant worldwide where the entire press shop is operated by robots. The company has used advanced technology to improve the quality of its products through digital eye technology and traceability of in-house parts with QR codes in machine shop. Quality of production processes has also been improved by intelligent tool life monitoring.
“As digital manufacturing gets popular, our third plant in Karnataka is one of the first auto factories in India to use this technology for improving asset utilisation. A centralised intelligent system connected to 250 CNCs provides intelligent data on the condition of machine thereby pre warning maintenance personnel,” he says.
All its plants are environment friendly and have been designed under Honda’s concept of “Joy to the Next Generation”. The Karnataka plant will achieve 92% of power utilisation from solar energy, through onsite rooftop panels (7MW) and by sourcing through off-site solar power.
The Rajasthan plant has set a new benchmark in industrial safety practices and accident prevention by winning 1st place in ‘lowest average frequency rate’ at the National Safety Awards organised by Ministry of Labour & Employment.
Sridhar believes that digital manufacturing will alter the face of manufacturing. New technologies makes manufacturing processes more efficient, improve asset utilisation and make factories greener & safer.
Manufacturers would like to introduce new products. However, lead time from concept stage to mass production stage takes between 18  and 30 months. With advancement in digitisation & 3D printing, product development lead time can be reduced significantly. These innovative technologies will enable “First time Right designs” & zero defect manufacturing. By combining digital twin of a product and production line, new production processes can be virtually tested and optimised before any physical work has been started.