Lean Machine Tools for the Indian Market

As a result of India’s increasing demand of machine tools India is attracting the attention of international machine tool manufacturers. To be competitive against international machine tool manufactures the German manufacturers must adapt their machine tool concepts to the specific requirements of the Indian manufacturing structure and offer machine tools according to the principal of avoidance of waste by offering exactly what the Indian customer needs. For this, the machine tools must be optimized to the parameters investment costs, running costs and cycle time. This article describes the requirements of the Indian machine tool end-users. a methodology is shown to optimize and develop machinetool-concept systematically to the Indian requirements.