This is my first industrial visit. Before this, I haven’t gone for any industrial visits. First time when I heard about Toyota Company, the first thing which came to my mind was it would be difficult for me to visit such a big automobile giant. But I was pleasantly surprised when GICE announced that we would be visiting TKM. Full credit to GICE because GICE gave me to this opportunity to go this Toyota Company.

On 12th of November, 2011 we, the students of Global Institute for Corporate Education had an industrial visit to the Bangalore location of Toyota Kirloskar Company where Toyota automobiles are manufactured.

The company was established by the founder automobile company Toyoda automatic loom works, in the year 1937, under Kiichiro Toyoda. In India, Toyota started off as a joint venture between KIRLOSKAR GROUP and TOYOTA MOTOR CORPORATION, better known as TOYOTA KIRLOSKAR MOTAR PRIVATE LIMITED (TKM). It mainly focused on development of the automotive industry and the creation of employment opportunities, not only through its dealer network, but also through component manufacturing industries. The company includes 522 subsidiaries.

Toyota initially kicked off as an ambitious venture of Toyoda Automatic Loom Works, under the ownership of Kiichiro Toyoda, in the year 1933. Initially, A1 (passenger car) and G1 were the cars to come out under its flagship. However, Toyota emerged as an independent company in the year 1937 and that year stamped the beginning of its glorious history. Originally, Toyota was conceived as an ambitious enterprise of automobile company, Toyoda Automatic Loom Works. It was only the result of the initiation launched by Kiichiro Toyoda that Toyota got to see the light of the day.
In 1982, Toyota Motor Company and Toyota Motor Sales merged to become Toyota Motor Corporation. Later, it entered into a joint enterprise with GM called NUMMI, the New United Motor Manufacturing, Inc, operating an automobile-manufacturing plant in Fremont, California. After that, Toyota came out with its first luxury class of Lexus, in the year 1989. The nineties saw the company go big with the production of larger and more luxurious vehicles, including a full-sized pickup, the T100 or the Tundra; several lines of SUVs; a sport version of the Camry called the Camry Solara; and the Scion brand, a group of several affordable, yet sporty, automobiles targeted mainly at young adults.

Toyota came up with the world’s best selling hybrid car – the Prius – in the year 1997. In 2002, it collaborated with Formula One works team and established joint ventures with French motoring companies Citroën and Peugeot. Toyota ranked eighth on Forbes 2000 list of the world’s leading companies for the year 2005. The company also grabbed the numero uno slot in global automobile sales for the first quarter of 2008. Toyota has found recent fame with its smaller models, Corolla and Yaris. Today, cars like Fortuner, Camry, Land Cruiser sums up as its biggest feat.

The various automobile that TOYOTA KIRLOSKAR MOTOR manufactured are-

1. Toyota Innova
2. Toyota Etios
3. Toyota Fortuner
4. Toyota Corolla

The visit helped us to understand, admire and appreciate the work culture, world class manufacturing and quality assurance systems and the values Toyota and Kirloskar Group uphold. But the only regret was that since maintenance work was going on we were not able to visit the assembly line area and we hope that we can see that during our next visit.

The Bosch Group is one of the world’s biggest private industrial corporations. Headquartered in Germany, Bosch has 283,500 employee’s worldwide and about 350 subsidiaries and regional companies around the world.

In India, Bosch is a leading supplier of technology and services, and has a strong presence in the country at different locations in diverse industry segments.

Bosch set up its manufacturing operations in 1953, and has grown over the years to 14 manufacturing sites and 3 development centres. Bosch employs about 22500 associates in India, and in business year 2010 achieved total consolidated revenue of over 6630 crores.

Founded in 1951, Bosch Limited is India’s largest auto component manufacturer and also one of the largest Indo – German companies in India. The company generated net sales of Rs. 6630 crores in 2010. The Bosch Group holds 71.18% stake in Bosch Limited.

Bosch Limited has a strong nationwide service network which spans across 1,000 towns and cities with over 5,000 authorized representations to ensure widespread availability of both products and services. The company is headquartered in Bangalore, where we visited, with manufacturing facilities at Bangalore, Naganathapura (near Bangalore), Nashik, Jaipur and Goa.

Bosch Limited manufactures and trades in all the three major business sectors of Bosch. Details below -

Automotive Technology
Business divisions: Diesel and Gasoline Fuel Injection Systems, Car Multimedia Systems, Auto Electricals and Accessories, Starters and Generators, Energy and Body Systems.

Industrial Technology
Business divisions: Packaging Machines, Special Purpose Machines

Consumer Goods and Building Technology
Business divisions: Power Tools, Security Systems

This was a very good learning experience for us, as we had an opportunity to visit a manufacturing plant and visibly see some of the processes.

This was a very good learning experience for us, as we had an opportunity to visit a manufacturing plant and visibly see some of the processes.  of shares of a Fortune 500 company are held by a non-profit foundation, what does it speak of the values of the company? Perhaps that is why Bosch is on the Fortune list of most admired companies. While the Robert Bosch Stiftung or Foundation manages the world wide Bosch philanthropic activities, the Bosch India Foundation is the torch-bearer of the social activities of Bosch in India. We also learnt that Bosch India has been the number 1 company for training its employees.
Ultimately, the working of Bosch reflected in one of its core values, i.e. a good idea will solve a problem. A brilliant one solves a whole lot more.

Submitted By: Anushree Shanbhag

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