Friday 22 June 2018

Innovation on wheels : Tata Motors Ltd

Technology and imagination come together at Tata Motors to create vehicles that drive the dream for millions of Indians
Tata Motors Limited is a leading global automobile manufacturer of cars utility vehicles buses trucks and defence vehicles. As India’s largest automobile company and part of the USD 100 billion Tata group Tata Motors has operations in the UK South Korea Thailand South Africa and Indonesia through a strong global network of 76 subsidiary and associate companies including Jaguar Land Rover in the UK and Tata Daewoo in South Korea. In India Tata Motors is a market leader in commercial vehicles and among the top passenger vehicles manufacturers with 9 million vehicles on Indian roads. With design and R&D centres located in India the UK Italy and Korea Tata Motors strives to pioneer new products that fire the imagination of GenNext customers.
Abroad Tata cars buses and trucks are being marketed in Europe Africa the Middle East South Asia South East Asia South America Australia CIS and Russia.Tata Motors has a portfolio of automotive products ranging from sub-1 ton to 49 ton gross vehicle weight (GVW) trucks (including pickup trucks) and from small medium and large buses and coaches to passenger cars. The company’s segments include automotive and others which include information technology (IT) services construction equipment manufacturing machine tools and factory automation solutions high-precision tooling and plastic and electronic components for certain applications and investment business.The company’s passenger cars include the Indica the Indica Vista the Indigo and the Indigo Marina.
Jaguar produces four car lines: XK XF XJ and X-Type. They manufacture a number of utility vehicles (UV) including the Sumo and the sports utility vehicle (SUV) Tata Safari. Also they manufacture a variety of light commercial vehicles (LCVs) including pickup trucks trucks and buses with GVW of between 0.7 ton and 7.5 tons. This also includes the Ace a mini-truck with a 0.7 ton payload the Magic a passenger variant for commercial transportation and the Winger. They also manufacture a variety of medium and heavy commercial vehicles (M&HCVs) which include trucks buses dumpers and multi-axled vehicles with GVW of between 9 tons to 49 tons.
The company’s manufacturing plants are situated at Jamshedpur (Jharkhand) Pune (Maharashtra) Lucknow (Uttar Pradesh) Pantnagar (Uttarakhand) Dharwad (Karnataka) and Sanand (Gujarat). Through their subsidiaries and associate companies the company has operations in the UK South Korea Thailand and Spain.Tata Motors Ltd was incorporated in the year 1945 with the name Tata Engineering and Locomotive Co Ltd for manufacturing locomotives and other engineering products. In the year 1948 the company introduced steam road roller in collaboration with Marshall Sons (UK). In the year 1954 they made collaboration with Daimler Benz AG West Germany for manufacturing medium commercial vehicles. In the year 1959 they set up a Research and Development Centre at Jamshedpur. In the year 1961 they started to export their products and the fist truck being shipped to Srilanka the year 1966 the company set up the Engineering Research Centre at Pune to provide impetus to automobile Research and Development. In the year 1977 they manufactured first commercial vehicle in Pune.
In the year 1983 they commenced manufacturing of Heavy Commercial Vehicle. In the year 1985 the company produced first hydraulic excavator in collaboration with Hitachi. In the year 1986 they produced the indigenously designed light commercial vehicle Tata 407 followed by 608. In the year 1989 they introduced third LCV model Tatamobile 206. In the year 1991 the company launched first indigenous passenger car Tata Sierra and in the next year they launched Tata Estate. In the year 1993 the company signed a joint venture agreement with Cummins Engine Co. Inc. for the manufacture of high horsepower and emission friendly diesel engines.
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