Leading Manufacturing Companies – TAL manufacturing solutions

Increased competition, globalisation, and preference for good quality products is reducing the shelf life of product lifecycles. TAL Manufacturing Solutions is also under pressure to reduce cost, improve time-to-market and stay ahead of the competition. Its R&D is based on what customer’s want and quality remains the core of its process. TAL also sources some parts from foreign suppliers such as belts for the robots come from Germany, and motors from Italy. But this does not mean that it stops continuing to create local suppliers.
As an indigenous robot manufacturer, TAL would prefer more local suppliers, but keeping quality in mind. The idea is to develop an indigenous product that is best suited to Indian conditions, is easy to use and maintain, and in line with international standards. TAL has had a culture of adopting new technology and entering into new arenas. It manufactured India’s first indigenous articulated industrial robot. To achieve this, it formed cross functional teams of R&D, quality and supply chain and gave autonomy to each department. As plant head, Bhingurde  ensures a fine balance between collaboration and independent functioning of teams.
Going forward, he believes that digitisation will have an impact on manufacturing. Industry 4.0, interaction of man and machine, and machine and data will open doors for greater innovation. In the next 2-3 years, smart manufacturing will make larger inroads, and the shop floor and top floor will be connected with real time data and alerts that would be collected and analysed leading to improvements in decision making. Aggregating data from various systems, assets and people will give a 3600 view into operations and result in higher operational performance.