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Study Abroad India

Business July 23, 2014

On every company visit, we were so welcomed, so well fed and given interactive lectures and extensive tours of their beautiful campuses many of which included pools, food courts, recreational facilities and food marts. On Wednesday afternoon we got to visit the TVS Motor Company. We entered a conference room where we were shown a brief video explaining how TVS began and how vertically sourced they are. As you drive around India, it is as common if not more so to see two wheel vehicles and auto rickshaws as it is a car. TVS is the third largest two-wheeler manufacturer in India and we toured the facility that assembles the vehicles. It was a remarkably clean and well organized facility optimizing on automation except where it is cost prohibitive. For example, we walked past the paint booth line which most of the production was done by robots except for the very end which had personnel performing the “touch-up” painting. Our guide told us because of the variation of parts, it is not cost effective to program the robots for all the variations and makes more sense for the human eye to catch and touch up missed spots.