The New Tata Indica X1 shall take only one minute on the assembly line as Kuka Robotics prepares new line for this car. Tata Motors shall soon get one of the most automated assembly lines in Pune in India. According to Raj Singh Rathee, MD, Kuka Robotics, this assembly line shall be one of the safest in India with 326 robots on a single line. Until now a single line at one of the largest auto companies used only 200 robots. Tata Motors used even less, only 70 robots per line.
Tata Motors is developing its single line similar to Mercedes in Germany which has minimal human interference. This would spell into Rs 300 crore more business for Tata Motors as the new assembly line would be capable of producing 270,000 cars annually or 900 cars per day.
This robotics assembly line would soon be applied to commercial vehicles as well. Kuka Robotics is also handling automation of assembly lines for Tata Sumo and Tata Safari as well. The company has already installed 550 robots in the country so far. It works in India via three companies – Kuka Robotics, Kuka Systems and HLS. HLS is the engineering and designing part of the group that caters to Indian as well as global markets.
