AUTOCAR • Rs SO Essential reading for the Automotive industry Vol.14 No.12 Total pages: 80 1 June 2018 www.autocarpro.in - -- - - - BRAND FINDER TELEMATICS & SOFTWARE SPECIAL INTERVIEW ACMA-----52 Alfa Rubbers ---60 Anand Automotive ......... 60 The MEIAtrend of AT&T Global Network Services India ___ 31 Ather Energy 3 Bosch 9 connected vehicles Clearmotion 9 In the fast-changing new world, automobiles are set to become more Delux Bearings ___ 55 like connected devices. As OEMs rush to pack in more features, there Emoss Mobile Systems .•.•• 7 is also the challenge of data management and security Page 22 FADA-----63 Faurecia ____...,9 Ford India ___ 53, 61 Gestamp Automotive ...... 60 Goldseal-SaarGummi India _____ 60 Google Maps 34 l0:4Sam ,_.,__ cJ .• ,11 .,,. Harman International 3136 Harsha Engineers ............ 60 HCL Technologies ............ 47 Hero Electric ___ 5 Honda Cars India ......... 4, 19 Honda Motorcycle & Scooter India _____53 650.3.. , 1 IBM-Watson loT Connected Products ____33 Cloudy r India Nippon Electricals .. 57 JK Fenner (India) .............. 61 Jumps Auto Industries .. 60 Kulkarni Engineers .......... 60 Maruti Suzuki VP, Digital Cockpit Platform India ____ 7, 29, 53 Group, Harman, on bringing MathWorks India .............. 42 MIT University, Manipal .. 42 SG to vehicles, digitalisation NRB Bearings ___ 60 of the car cockpit Page 36 Prabha Engineering ........ 59 Precision camshafts .......... 7 E-MOBILITY PricoI _____ 57 Quantum,_____ 22 Quest Global 26 Gqiarat races to be a Suzuki Motor Corp .............. 7 Tata Motors ................ 10, 53 Texspin Bearings ............. 60 component hub too Toyota Kirloskar Motor .... 15 Toyota Motor Corp .............. 7 First ACMA Value Chain Summit brings OEMs, component suppliers, government I on a common platform AtherGrid: New EV as the state looks to charging station evolve an eco-system Ather Energy launches 30 EV of Tier 1 and Tier 2 points in Bangalore, targets suppliers Page 52 Pune, Chennai too Page 3 HOME-GROWN TIER 1 SUPPLIERS CHART NEW MOVES TO TAP GLOBAL MEGATRENDS PAGE SO I COMPONENTS I Winds of change If there were any doubters of the megatrends of electrification, connected vehicles.autonomous driving and safety affecting the Indian automotive component industry, with the developments in recent times there shouldn't be any more now. Key players are already taking the necessary steps to ride the winds of change, says Su mantra B Barooah. discussing electric taking ie~~:~~g over and even things like the global autonomous," says Harish utomotive/ Lakshman, vice-chairman, mobility world Rane Group. Tcan be said to be the Change is here and Tier 1 most significant since suppliers are preparing for the birth of the internal it. As the new automotive combustion engine. And, world takes shape, the road the engine as we know it ahead is not absolutely today, may not live for too clear. But what's clear is long. Nearly 50 percent that the megatrends are of the Indian component here to stay; and India industry's revenue is too will be a playground estimated to be earned for them. "I personally from internal combustion feel that you can't wish it engine technologies. It's away. It is definitely there, anybody's guess what the whether it is in terms impact could be if mass of regulation which is scale electric mobility, for tightening, whether on example, becomes a reality emission, safety and other soon. things, or more and more "Industry people comfort which is required have started upgrading whether it is in terms of themselves, they now connected vehicles have started visiting or autonomous vehicles. withMando. Bangalore-based telematics international motor shows. Well, EVs and hybrids are a Over two years ago, Rane firm Telematics4U They have started looking reality. They are happening Group, another leading Services, last year. That at what is happening in all around the world. The component manufacturing move will help Rane to new technologies like only thing which is still not group, started doing some tap opportunities in the hybrid, electric and other clear is at what pace this ASTHENEW internal assessment of the connected technologies technologies, especially technology will happen," impact that mass-scale space and potentially open pertaining to ICE-related Deepak Chopra, CEO, AUTOMOTIVE electric mobility can have up opportunities to expand engines. These people are Anand Group tells Autocar WORLD on its businesses. For good the group's connected going to be affected, but Professional. The Rs 9,000 TAKES SHAPE, or for bad, it found that vehicle product portfolio. this effect is not going to crore Anand Group has only one of its entities Reflecting the growing be abrupt, it is not going set up an automotive THEROAD Rane Engine Valve, which ambitions of the to be disruptive but will growth council to identify; AHEAD IS NOT contributes to about 11 homegrown component happen step-by-step," and draw strategies for, ABSOLUTELY percent of the group's sales is the interesting move says N K Minda, president, new opportunities. The revenue, would be affected of investing in a fund in Auto Components council is headed by Sunil CLEAR. WHAT'S if the automotive industry Silicon Valley, a hotbed of Manufacturers Association Kaul, Group President­ CLEARIS rapidly shifts to electric innovation and disruption. (ACMA). Technology, Innovation & THATTHE mobility. Along with The Rane Group has "In addition to the India Automation, and a member MEGATRENDS the internal assessment some global component growth story, we are having of the Executive Committee efforts, the group also set suppliers as partners in major disruptions that at Anand Group. Safety is ARE HERETO up a team to identify new this fund, which looks at we can see in the horizon, also a key megatrend. As STAY, AND INDIA business opportunities. investing in disruptive which I think most of us new regulations kick in, the TOO WILL BEA The first key step towards technologies in the road would not have predicted Anand Group will invest Rs any of the megatrends transport sector across even two years ago, that 500 crore over three years PLAYGROUND was the acquisition of the globe. we will be sitting and only in its brakes business FORTHEM. a 70 percent stake in a Many component 50 Autocar Professional I June 2018 www.autocarpro.in I COMPONENTS I manufacturers have already started drawing new strategies or tweaking existing ones in order to sustain and grow in the new mobility era. Quite a few companies can see some of their product lines becoming redundant in the coming years. "Yes, of course. That's whywe are starting new verticals. So, UNO Minda Group's Anand Group's Deepak Rane Group's Harish Lucas TVS' Arvind Balaji: the goal is to constantly NK Minda: "We are on Chopra: "You cannot wish Lakshman: "Most would not "The goal is to constantly re-invent ourselves and the lookout for various megatrends away. What's have predicted that we will re-invent ourselves and have have new lines of business opportunities, whether it is not clear is at what pace this be discussing electric taking new lines of business that that will sustain in the electric vehicles or hybrids." technology will happen." over or autonomous tech." will sustain in the future." future," says Arvind Balaji, joint MD, Lucas TVS. The incorporated in both IC space. In terms of adverse up. We are not starting from company is placing its engine and electric bikes. impact, only about 2 that far back. And I think bets on three major areas - The UNO Minda Group, percent of its products this discontinuity is a great electrification, connected which also showcased will be affected by electric opportunity for us who vehicle and the internal technology demonstrators mobility. have invested in technology combustion engine at the Auto Expo 2018, The Indian component to try to see whether we can too. "The IC engine will is among the Indian industry has reached a make a move," says Balaji. continue to be a major part companies preparing to be critical scale and level Lakshman agrees of our business. No matter able to sustain its business in terms of volume with the view that this is which projection you look and growth. It is looking at and capabilities. Some the biggest disruption at, it will continue to be venturing into new areas homegrown companies period since the internal there for a while to come. in the next couple of years. have achieved global combustion engine. "We So, we have got products "We are in the lookout of scale in terms of quality are sitting in that kind that are BS VI-ready, ready various opportunities, and deliverability. But of a phase, and we don't for the way IC engine is whether it is EVs, hybrids. they are only a handful. know what is going to going," says Balaji. They should be linked to The huge maturity lead of happen. There are going Among the new our knowledge, linked to the automotive industry to be winners, losers, new developments, engineers at our skill, where we can in the West adds to the business models that are Lucas TVS have developed add value because we are challenge. In the fast going to come about." a motor for electric three­ already in electronics, changing automotive Indeed, the current wheelers and connected and electronics is going to industry, where the new disruptive times are both vehicle technologies for be approximately 40-50 megatrendshavesent unpredictable and exciting. two-wheelers which were percent in a car," says almost everyone into the Making investments for the showcased for the first time N K Minda, CMD, UNO Minda learning and discovering future, without any RFQ in Lucas TVS foresees good at the Auto Expo 2018.