Products Engineering capabilities Manufacturing capabilities Quality

Tata AutoComp Systems manufactures a variety of products at its state-of-the-art plant It provides world-class interior and exterior products with contemporary styling and finish.

Its products range includes:

Exteriors

	Injection-moulded plastics components and assemblies:
	Bumpers Body side mouldings Spoilers Grilles Spare wheel covers Footsteps Surfaces can be moulded, moulded in colour, painted for gloss enhancement, painted in body colour, among other forms.
	Under-the-hood components such as surge tanks and cylinder head covers

Interiors

	Cockpit assembly
	Injection-moulded plastic components and assemblies
	Instrument panel / dashboard Air vents Door trims ABC pillars Interior trims / centre consoles / floor consoles Grab handles / door pulls Surfaces can be moulded, fabric bonded, colour painted, soft painted, cubic printed, decorated in-mould, among other forms. We also offer invisible laser scouring instrument panels fitted with passenger air bags.

Engineering capabilities

Tata AutoComp offers strong design and development capabilities for a number of products.

These capabilities include:

• Benchmarking, market studies to offer contemporary solutions and product improvements
• Full-service supplier capabilities for the design, development, manufacture and supply of cockpit modules and interior and exterior trims
• Design capabilities using CAD / CAE on I-DEAS, CATIA, PDGS, Pro-E software available in-house
• Customer-specific programme and product management through TS 16949-certified processes
• Launch and PVT support / resident engineering to ensure smooth launch, quick feedback and immediate action whenever necessary

Manufacturing facilities

The company has seven manufacturing facilities in India (of which four are in Pune) and one manufacturing facility in Nanjing, China.

Through flexible operations, smaller batch sizes, low inventories and the ability to switch easily from components to system integration, it ensures cost-effective production and the ability to meet customer specifications and diverse requirements.

Facilities
Its facilities include:

• Sophisticated injection-moulding machines of various capacities equipped with quick mould changing and robotic systems. All machines are fitted with pick-and-place NC robots for the handling of products with grippers designed to fit product contours.
• Four (4) state-of-the-art paint shops which include robotised painting facility including robotic flaming facility and one eco-friendly water-based paint shop
• Ultrasonic and vibration welding machines for dashboard assembly
• Woodstock forming equipment that provides process options to the customer for different product lines
• Thermo-graining machine from Frimo, Germany
• In-mould-graining machine from KTX Japan
• Jenoptik laser scouring machine
• Complete metrology laboratory facility

Testing and prototyping facilities:

• PAB deployment testing facility with climatic chamber
• 3-D coordinate measuring machine that helps in measurement, validation and reverse engineering
• Climatic chamber that provides simulation of actual environmental conditions and a facility to test cockpits and similar-sized products
• Melt flow index for incoming raw material inspection
• Colorimeter for colour measurements
• Visual chamber for simulating light conditions
• Glossometer for measuring numerical values for gloss
• Universal tensile testing machine
• Multi-angle photo spectrometer

Quality

Through its global-standard quality assurance processes, including conformance to the QS 9000 and TS 16949 standards and process improvement initiatives such as Six Sigma, Kaizen and Kanban, it is nearing its target of an error rate of just 50 parts per million.

The plant facilities also ensure minimum ecological effects through processes that conform to ISO 14000 and ISO 14001 environmental standards.

Manufacturing Unit
Tata AutoComp Systems Limited - Interiors and Plastics Division