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Hyundai Motor
India Limited (HMIL) is the first manufacturing unit of Hyundai
outside Korea that boasts of near 100 per cent productivity, with
robots working in tandem with humans and rolling out 53 cars per
hour. In fact, the company's Rs 2,429-crore second unit is fully
supported by robots with 88 per cent of the jobs being taken care
by machines. The two factory plants in the Chennai unit together
now produce about six lakhs cars per annum for both export and domestic
consumption.
The success
of the Indian unit has taken the parent company by surprise, to
the extent that it sends a Korean team every quarter to study its
functioning and replicate it in other plants.
Asked about
the mega achievements of the lush green facility spread across 562
acres, HMIL's Executive Director and Chief Financial Officer, Han-Woo
Park quietly attributes it to the 11,000-strong workforce in
the factory. The fact that the soft-spoken Korean, who is in-charge
of the day-to-day activities of the Chennai unit , believes in team
work was evident when he called in his entire top team for a free-wheeling
interview with Sify.com's Deputy Managing Editor K. Sreedevi
and Associate Editor M.V. Amarnath. While explaining the
company's success story in India, Park makes it clear that the company
has no plans to compete with Tata Nano, and asserts that so far,
the Indian unit has not been affected either by the rising oil prices
or the US meltdown.
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