Tata Motors’ heavy engineering and automation arm TAL expects a revenue of Rs 1,000 crore from the robotics business over the next five years on the back of its entry into factory automation and launch of new products, reported TOI.
The company plans to foray into high-end automation technology from June 2019 which includes surface mount technology (SMT) assembly machines that are generally used for automatic manufacturing of electronic products like mobile phones, television sets etc.
“We are expecting a revenue of Rs 1,000 crore over next five years from robotics business. The growth will come from entry into factory automation across various verticals and commercialisation of different product portfolio that are in pipeline,” TAL Manufacturing Solutions CEO Amit Bhingurde said to PTI.
The company today unveiled new robot, Brabo TRO6-6, with 6 kg payloads having six-axis for various kind of movements. The robotics division currently contributes around Rs 70 crore to TAL’s consolidated revenue. The company has two divisions- Pune based industrial business unit and Nagpur based aerospace business unit. The consolidated revenue of TAL was around Rs 350 crore in last fiscal.
Bhingurde said that the entire development and manufacturing of robots is being done at Pune unit of the company and 95 per cent of components used are sourced locally.
TAL plans to make available country’s first made-in-India SMT machines for electronics manufacturing segment by June 2019. He said that the company is working on applications for other industry segments that will be launched gradually.
