HMIL manufacturing plant ready with ‘Technologies of Tomorrow’ for the next 20 years

By OEM Update Editorial September 12, 2018 4:58 pm IST

Hyundai Motor India Ltd (HMIL), has announced that its Sriperumbudur based manufacturing plant is future ready to meet the safety and emission norms well in advance before its mandatory industry implementation in 2019. The Hyundai mega manufacturing plant has adopted futuristic technologies to Make India’s most loved and trusted modern premium cars. The Hyundai plant achieved the milestone of becoming the fastest Indian Automobile manufacturer to roll out 8 millionth car in the shortest span of 19 years 9 months.

The Hyundai mega manufacturing plant is spread across a total area of 535 acres and along with advanced manufacturing 4.0 production equipped with over 590 – generation 4 robots, quality and testing capabilities along with flexible engine plants to cater for India as well as global market.

The Hyundai plant is running at almost 100 per cent capacity utilisation. Production capacity of 7 lakh units will be enhanced through value engineering to 7.50 lakh units in 2019 without any future investment. Keeping up with the Government of India’s vision to bring electric vehicles in India, the Hyundai smart plant is gearing up to produce electric vehicles in India. Equipped to meet the BS VI technology, car and pedestrian safety norms along with airbags and ABS (Anti-Lock Braking System) as standard in all models Y K Koo, MD & CEO, Hyundai Motor India Ltd. Said – “The Hyundai Motor future ready plant is a true expression of manufacturing excellence. Our journey in India started with SANTRO equipped with Multi-point fuel injection and Bharat Stage – II technologies, the first in the industry and today through our smart and value engineering we have been producing the most iconic and awarded cars from our plant. As a young and dynamic brand, Hyundai has implemented Smart Manufacturing 4.0 practices with focus on digitalisation, big data and data analytics to produce superior and Zero Defect Cars with Robust and Fool-Proof Quality Checks and Assurance Systems. At our plant, the seamless synergy between human intelligence and precision of machines is a combination of science and arts to create the finest cars that are loved by the customers across the world.”