At Schaeffler India, our approach
is to achieve more with less.
When faced with challenges
posed by the pandemic, we
turned our attention to becoming
more prudent in the management
of our financial capital. Our
efforts to prioritise expenditure,
minimise inefficiencies and
redundancies have
paid off well.
Post the lockdown, our purchase team enhanced efforts to drive improvements in material cost and de-risk supplies with localisation. This further aided our operational performance during the year.
Strategy linkages
Special Machinery is a strategic division of Schaeffler that was established in 2006 in India to build new production machinery and also to improve/upgrade the existing automation equipment across Schaeffler Plants. In 2020, Special Machinery was scaled up with newly built state-of-the-art facility at Maneja, Vadodara. Now it has a total assembly area of around 1600 m2. A highly motivated and globally connected team of mechanical, electrical and software engineers continue to take on the challenges. The portfolio of these resourceful specialists encompasses assembly automation, measuring and inspection technology robotics and camera systems.
Most recent highlights of 2020 include development of CRB 120 Assembly Line and SRB 920 Assembly Line for Savli Plant, robotic solution for SLHS system assembly for Talegaon Plant, set up of EK17 Clutch Line at Hosur Plant.
Logistics management
Supplier management
Design optimisation in close coordination with the parent
Derisking our import supply dependency
Operations management
