Brilliant Super Sophisticated Manufacturing Plant Owned GE in Pune, India

Talking about advanced manufacturing, generally we think of countries such as Germany, Japan and America, not India.

 This will soon change. GE invested $ 200 million on a "brilliant factory" which can produce various kinds of products, ranging from jet engine parts to locomotive components, for four different GE business units, all produced under one roof for the first time. Leading manufacturing factory located in Pune, near Mumbai in western India has an area of ​​67 hectares, equivalent to 38 football fields. 

The plant will open jobs for 1,500 employees who will share a production line, support infrastructure, and ekuipmen like 3D printers and laser inspection technology. In addition to producing jet engines and locomotives technology, they also will assemble the air turbine and build water treatment units for oil and gas and agriculture industries. 

"This plant helps us to adjust production more quickly once demand comes, using employees and the same place," said Banmali Agrawala, president and CEO of GE South Asia. Flexible factory and "multimodal" officially opened on Saturday, a new breakthrough for India and GE. This is the first time that GE's concept called the "Brilliant factory" is successfully applied, where ekuipmen factories and computers interact in real time with the Industrial Internet; sharing information; and take decisions in order to maintain the quality of production and avoid downtime. The factory like this, various production lines connected digitally to supply, maintain and distribute the network to maintain optimal production quality. 

"The plant is more brilliant than parts of 3D printing technology from digital files, we've done today," said Christine Furstoss, global director of technology at GE Global Research. "We can build a plant that can improve the way they work alone." Build a brilliant plant in India is strategic for GE, GE article intends to strengthen the company's operations in the country, growing rapidly and supporting suppliers. "We have too many small suppliers and their difficulties to improve their reach," said Agrawala. "Multimodal plant like this really helped us and them. 

We can invest in equipment, processes and appropriate training, ensuring our machines are used properly, and designing new products faster and more cost-effective. We were also able to experiment and try new things more freely. " Flexible factory is in line with the Prime Minister Narendra Modi campaign, "Make in India". In the opening ceremony of the plant. Modi expressed his desire to increase the income of Indian manufacturing in GDP to 25 percent in 2022, opened the 100 million new jobs and eradicate poverty.