Ride-hailing main Ola on Thursday stated it has chosen ABB as certainly one of its key companions for robotics and automation options for its electrical automobile manufacturing facility in Tamil Nadu.
Ola will utilise ABB’s automation options in its manufacturing facility’s key manufacturing course of traces, together with portray and welding traces, whereas ABB robots will probably be deployed extensively for the battery and motor meeting traces, a press release stated.
These embody ABB’s paint and Integrated Dressing robots in its portray and welding traces, and robots for meeting and materials dealing with within the battery and motor meeting areas, it added.
ABB robots will probably be digitally built-in into Ola’s AI-enabled manufacturing facility to optimise robotic efficiency, productiveness and product high quality.
The use of ABB’s robots and automation options will guarantee distant digital connectivity and monitoring of the robots that may trip on Ola’s proprietary AI engine and tech stack, it stated.
“ABB’s solutions will be riding on Ola’s own proprietary AI engine and tech stack embedded in our scooter mega-factory. We are bringing in global expertise and stitching up partnerships that will help us build out our factory in record speed and roll out the first of our electric scooters in the coming months,” Ola Chairman and Group CEO Bhavish Aggarwal stated.
Sanjeev Sharma, Managing Director at ABB India and South Asia, stated the corporate’s sustainable robotics automation options will complement the imaginative and prescient to construct the manufacturing facility to additional the EV journey of India.
“Increased automation and robotics to make shop-floors safer, more productive and of impeccable quality will fast-track India’s transition to one of the leading agile, self-reliant and high-tech manufacturing economies of the world,” he added.
In December, Ola introduced inking an settlement with the Tamil Nadu authorities to take a position Rs 2,400 crore for establishing its first electrical scooter manufacturing facility within the state. With an preliminary annual capability of two million items, the manufacturing facility will create 10,000 jobs and function a worldwide manufacturing hub for each India and worldwide markets throughout Europe, UK, Latin America, Australia and New Zealand.
