{"id":1330,"date":"2012-08-30T12:23:07","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T19:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.plm.automation.siemens.com\/t5\/Siemens-PLM-Corporate-Blog\/Learn-how-Mahindra-Vehicles-is-trying-to-be-first-time-right\/ba-p\/334988"},"modified":"2026-03-26T11:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T15:07:09","slug":"learn-how-mahindra-vehicles-is-trying-to-be-first-time-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/learn-how-mahindra-vehicles-is-trying-to-be-first-time-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Learn how Mahindra Vehicles is trying to be \u201cfirst time right\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><A rel=\"attachment wp-att-12108 nofollow noopener noreferrer\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.industrysoftware.automation.siemens.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/30\/tecnomatix-mahindra-vehicles-casestud\/mahindra\/\"><IMG class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-12108\" src=\"http:\/\/community.plm.automation.siemens.com\/legacyfs\/online\/wordpress\/images\/2012\/08\/Mahindra-100x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"150\" \/><\/A>If you ask me to explain Tecnomatix in one sentence, I will direct you to our <A href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/products\/tecnomatix\/index.shtml\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">home page<\/A> that says; \u201cTecnomatix\u2122 is a comprehensive portfolio of <A href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/plm\/digital-manufacturing.shtml\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">digital manufacturing<\/A> solutions that deliver innovation by linking all manufacturing disciplines together with product engineering \u2013 from process layout and design, process simulation and validation, to manufacturing execution\u201d<BR \/><BR \/>Mr. Nagesh Nidamaluri, senior general manager at Mahindra Vehicles vindicated the strengths of the above statements when he said, \u201cIn 2007, we selected and introduced the Tecnomatix solution, because it offers a full range of digital manufacturing tools that serve our needs, integrates smoothly with our existing product data management systems and clearly stands out in meeting the criteria we had defined.\u201d<BR \/><BR \/>The main reason Mahindra adopted digital manufacturing technologies is because it wants to be \u201cfirst time right\u201d; when it comes to building new vehicle models.<!--more--><BR \/><BR \/>Using the 3D plant layout and smart objects capabilities of <A href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/products\/tecnomatix\/plant_design\/factorycad\/index.shtml\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">FactoryCAD<\/A>, Mahindra built a new green field plant in Chakan, India quicker than ever before. Mahindra was able to check for interferences and layout inefficiencies well before commissioning the plant. Furthermore, Mahindra used <A href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/products\/tecnomatix\/plant_design\/plant_simulation.shtml\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Plant Simulation<\/A> to simulate the entire production line, and find optimal buffer storage requirements between stations.<BR \/><BR \/>Mahindra is using the Teamcenter &#8211; <A href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/products\/tecnomatix\/assembly_planning\/mpp.shtml\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">manufacturing process planner<\/A> &#8211; application to manage its eBOM and mBOM definitions. In addition, <A href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/products\/tecnomatix\/assembly_planning\/process_simulate\/index.shtml\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Process Simulate<\/A> is used to simulate and optimize stations and cell level assembly processes.<BR \/><BR \/>You can read the full <A href=\"http:\/\/www.plm.automation.siemens.com\/en_us\/about_us\/success\/case_study.cfm?Component=197733&amp;ComponentTemplate=1481\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">case study here<\/A> and check how Mahindra achieved 25% reduction in green field plat setup time, and 28% improvement in manufacturing working time.<\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you ask me to explain Tecnomatix in one sentence, I will direct you to our home page that says; \u201cTecnomatix\u2122 is a comprehensive portfolio of digital manufacturing solutions that deliver innovation&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61924,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spanish_translation":"","french_translation":"","german_translation":"","italian_translation":"","polish_translation":"","japanese_translation":"","chinese_translation":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"industry":[],"product":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-1330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61924"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1331,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1330\/revisions\/1331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1330"},{"taxonomy":"industry","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/industry?post=1330"},{"taxonomy":"product","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product?post=1330"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.sw.siemens.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}