Showcasing India's Manufacturing Process

In the pursuit of transforming itself into a manufacturing powerhouse, the country has been encouraging domestic and multi-national companies to manufacture their products in India, thus expanding its economy along with its industrial output. Through the “Make in India” initiative by
the government, new horizons have opened up for the home-grown players who are now
all set to prove their mettle to the world with their cost-effective, yet high-quality products and technologies.

EMO Hannover 2017, the world’s premier trade fair for the metal working sector, is a great opportunity for the Indian manufacturers to represent all the players back home and promote the nation’s strengths in the sector.

The Indian export figures so far give a bright picture and make India a suitable candidate to be part of a trade show of such stature.

According to German Engineering Federation (VDMA), the bilateral trade between India and Germany grew to € 17.42 billion in 2016 from a figure of nearly € 17.29 billion in 2015. Indian imports from Germany amounted to € 9.8 billion. The exports from India to Germany attained a value of € 7.62 billion in 2016.

Lucrative Indian market

India, today, shares spotlight with the world’s largest machine tools markets and ranks 8th among them. Over the past three years, the subcontinent has further extended its overall machine tool consumption volume by almost a fifth, reaching a volume of € 1.7 billion in 2016, corresponding to a growth of 11 percent in euros. For 2017-2018, too, a continuingly moderate increase in consumption is predicted, thus making it an attractive, high potential market with the need to be focussed upon at the EMO.

The fair is being held at Hannover, Germany from September 18-23, 2017, after a gap of four years. It is being organised by the VDW, Frankfurt am Main, Germany on behalf of the European Association of the Machine Tools Industries from Brussels, Belgium and in conjunction with Deutsche Messe AG, Germany.

Jai Ho at EMO!

To celebrate India’s growth in the manufacturing sector and explore factors contributing to a probable industrial revolution, a session, ‘India Day’ is to be hosted by the VDW, German Machine Tool Builders’ Association, at the event on 20 September. The EMO’s India Day will also be supported by the Indian government. The event will also play host to six delegations of high-ranking Indian entrepreneurs, which will be organised and accom-panied by various Indian customer associations and India VDMA office.

Representatives from Indian user sectors will be addressing technical and commercial trends from the automotive and aviation, and mechanical engi-neering industries. Rajesh Nath, Managing Director, VDMA India will be moderating the overall event.

India at its manufacturing best

The Indian exhibitors at the EMO 2017 are all set to wow their global counterparts with their innovative display.

Ace Manufacturing Systems Ltd

Hall: 17, Booth: F07

AMS will be displaying a high-speed drill tap machining solution with a high-speed pallet change feature. It provides low chip to chip times and also masks the component exchange time with the pallet changer. This product is most suitable for high volume components with short machining times and for applications demanding frequent tool changes with multiple drills and taps to be performed on the components. The versatile machine has the ability to cut components of different material compositions to suit specific applications. Such machines are widely required in the auto component and the electronics manufacturing industries.

Chennai Metco Pvt Ltd

Hall: 6, Booth: E 42

The company will be showcasing its direct drive cutter developed in collaboration with IIT Madras and supported by MHI. It will also be displaying automatic carbide cutters / metallography preparatory machines.

Forbes and Company Ltd

Hall: 4, Booth: F96

Forbes will exhibit its: high-performance taps for aerospace, and automotive sector; applications for difficult-to-machine materials and the ever-increasing use of stainless steel for valve and processing industry and threading tools for super alloys; end mills for aerospace, die & mould and for graphite machining; and high-performance drills up to 36D for a variety of industries.

Grind Master Machines Pvt Ltd

Hall: 11, Booth: A65/A67

Grind Master along with its French subsidiary SPMS will be showcasing Supramatic range of superfinishing machines for Powertrain Shafts. Using modular elements including MBA series superfinishing modules, the CMA series machine generates precision engineered surface finish and geometry characteristics on automotive powertrain shafts such as input and output shafts of gearbox. With automation for loading/unloading including conveyor systems etc., it is built for high volume production and is used by leading automotive OEMs globally including Europe, South America, China etc.

Jyoti CNC Automation Ltd

Hall: 27, Booth:D70/D78

Jyoti CNC’s exhibits range from speed-oriented compact foot print machines to sophisticated multitasking machines. It also includes a new avatar of its largest selling variants DX 200 as DX 200 nvu and VMC 850 as VMC 850 nvu, which are much advanced and improved Gen-Next machines. A highly sophisticated high precision Turn Mill Center AX 300, Tachyon 7 is yet another state-of-the-art high dynamic Drill Tap Center focused on Automobile and Electronics sector. The K Mill 10, exclusively built for catering to the requirements of high-end Die Mould application and a battery of high-tech 5-Axis machines namely K3X8 (Five) nvu, U Mill 5 and 6, 5-Axis Double Column Machining Center KX50R nvu, 5-Axis Universal Machining Center MX 10 and Multitasking Machining Center MTX 300 for Aerospace and Energy sector will also be on display.

Stamp IT Robotai & Solutions Pvt Ltd

Hall: 11, Booth: F19

The company will be launching a new product “Mobimark”, a cordless hand-held marker completely innovated in India, the only machine with a Wi-Fi hotspot operated with a smartphone app used for industrial marking. This machine is suitable to
create permanent, clearly visible deep alphanumeric marking on metal components.

UCAM Pvt Ltd

Hall: 12, Booth: E15

UCAM is exhibiting new 5-axis solutions. One particular unit is a direct drive tilting table 450mm in diameter, and is powerful and compact. This product would be of interest to both international and domestic customers. The company has orders for this product from
its European customers. Its divi-sion Nimble Machines is show-casing motors for 5-axis turning, milling applications.

Gearing up for advanced trends

Along with the focus on the traditional machine tools at the show, which are not going to be pensioned off soon, there is a special focus on the emerging trends such as additive manufacturing (AM) for which the world is getting ready for. At present, AM in India is up to building prototype in selective sectors and with the developing efforts towards cost viability and productivity aspects, it would expand in many corners in near future. But as rightly put by Vijay Zala, Executive Head, R&D, Jyoti CNC Automation, to keep pace with the developed economies, the Indian machine tool industry must think out of the box, prioritize upskilling and reskilling of the work force and emphasize considerable investment in R&D. A parallel segment must be structured to develop core technologies rather than the ongoing machine tool manufacturing as integration and adoption of AM is easy but development is more challenging. However, being part of the mega machine tool show, in proximity to trends that rule the world of manufacturing will provide Indian players enough tools to come back home and fill the gaps.