A major automotive ancillary is in the process of setting up a new green-field plant across two phases. The major question that pops up each time a new setup happens is how sonner the factory starts to payback the shareholders. This is the same question that has come up again for an auto-ancillary major. My answer below is for the CIO stakeholders as I am a digital transformation analyst and my answer talks about how digital transformation can better pace your plant setup Dig

If you are in IT sales, then key for you is to know what could be the possible trigger for the business to think about :- Digital Transformation Existing IT systems upgrade Existing IT systems benchmarking with industry peers ERP systems modernization .... IT sales guys keep looping between business and IT side, with the two mostly head to head in terms of case for modernization versus as-is state of affairs. For the business, digital transformation only makes sense when it a

Generally I cover the Industry 4.0 shopfloor implementations in automotive and industrial heavy goods space but I have also been following the digital transformation pursuits of Unilever, and that too globally and not just for Unilever India The benefits observed by CPG companies are less percentage wise compared to those in automotive and industrial goods space, atleast this is my observation, though the data-points are still limited to make a very conclusive argument In ter

Latest news from two major giants - Stellantis and Bentley has come as a fresh breather to a wave of negative or sad news on the state of digital transformation for Auto companies globally not just India First being, Capgemini is taking lead of digital ops for Bentley. News link : https://analyticsindiamag.com/ai-news/capgemini-to-lead-bentley-motors-digital-transformation-with-ai-intelligent-manufacturing Capgemini will help Bentley with : Data and AI strategy Ops modernizat

1. Increased share of suppliers in working with OEMs from design stage : MForesight: Alliance for Manufacturing Foresight estimated global percentage to be <50% in late 1980s to ~70% in 2011. Since 2011, no quant estimate is there but - My understanding of space suggests that this number has risen significantly globally - In Indian context, Tier-1 has largely been predominant till 2018's, so the pecentage is bound to be much less than global standards 2. Since 2018 followin

As per an interesting statistic, a mid and large sized enterprise on an average uses 100+ SaaS tools across its internal and external operations. Couple of years back, a lot of work was either manual or excel driven, cut to today, we have fund-raising rounds happening everyday thus leading to a flurry of applications and cloud based non-premise solutions where users either log their attendance or tick mark their vendor selections. While it started with the ease of digitizatio

The question in the title is a long standing question across multiple industry verticals and horizontal functions - why do we need consultants? Some time back I was working with team at Cognizant when they had undertaken a massive sized project having multiple plants across 25+ global locations. They were running multiple initiatives across both the shopfloor and the topfloor. I had only question? What is that you do when Rockwell Systems will do the hands-on enablement plus

Study Name : State of Drone Market : Strategic v/s Tactical Focus across 20 market participants | Commercial Drone Since 2019/late 2021:- 1. Use cases have evolved from defense surveillance to urban mapping. From agriculture monitoring and terrain mapping to water sprinking, seeding and fertilizer applications 2. Some startups have IPO'ed while some have raised significant capital. Others have gone through acquisitions and partnerships with global drone partners 3. More and m

Quick pointers below:- Mondelez Digital Transformation 1. Since late 2024, cocoa farms in West Africa are running affected of virus and pests. Weather fluctuations have been common since 2012 2. But the question is not "what has company done since then?" question is what has Mondelez done for the farms? 3. Go back 7 years, 2017, Mondelez and similar firms requiring Cocoa had flagged that farms in West Africa need innovation to save from pests and virus! However, little consis

State of Digital Transformation at Indian Auto Ancillaries (H1'26) My quick take on what they are doing very well:- 👉 One of the strongest performers in my assessment especially on the digital design and digital manufacturing nuances (Advanced MES deployments) 👉 One of the few auto-ancillaries which is implementing digitization initiatives basis a structured framework and not haphazard POC implementations. Their ZF Production System (ZF PS) is a 360 framework focusing on al

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1. Palantir Technologies in their filing notes " Across both the public and private sectors, there is a history of failures when investing in new technologies. One U.S. military department spent more than $1 billion building an enterprise resource planning system from scratch. The system was never delivered, and the project was terminated. Many of our customers have had similar experiences investing millions — even billions — of dollars in digital transformation projects, ent

A cybersecurity engineer with 9+ years at Electronic Arts, Tesla, Al Jazeera, and Verizon secured EB-1A green card (~12 months) and O-1 visa (~14 months) through parallel strategy. His work in gaming security, DNS scanning, zero-trust permissions, and SAST/DAST protected millions across critical sectors—but success demanded amplifying "invisible" impact via public display. Public display was the game-changer, transforming internal tools into USCIS-recognized extraordinary abi

NVIDIA, Oracle, Meta seem to be in the most turbulent zone for the next 1-4 year time horizon! I ran a 2x2 analysis on quantum of risk v/s Immediacy of risk on select US tech companies - Risky US Stocks Parameters used on both X and Y axis:- 1. Difficulty in monetization and sustainability of AI initiatives 2. Threat to existing key (>50% by revenue) revenue component 3. Failure to hire and retain key personnel 4. Effect of macro-economic factors Insights :- 1. Netflix Shopif

From 1984 to the current date...how has the SAP, ERP, FP&A automation and Vision AI systems adoption evolved at Indian enterprises | Digital Transformation in India Got chatting today morning with Vaidyanathan Venkataraman on how the finer nuances of adoption has shifted across - Functions (Finance, Marketing, After Sales, Manufacturing) - Industries (Liquor, Textile, Automotive and other asset heavy areas) - Business cases changed from cost savings to competitiveness and whe

State of Digital Transformation : Spotlight on Uno Minda My quick take on what they are doing very well:- 👉 Among all the players analyzed Uno Minda is one of the strongest players in the product design space. INITIA divison specializing in design research and modeling is key to their strong competence in the space. 👉 Implementation of solutions for centralized supplier management is now becoming an industry standard. Good to see Uno Minda adopting it. 👉 Moderately good so

State of Digital Transformation : Spotlight on Bosch India My quick take on what they are doing very well:- 👉 Bosch India has the highest score on Industry 4.0 deployments for "OEE enhancements, production monitoring & process optimization" 👉 Focused efforts on cost-discipline through granular cost analytics and predictive spend mechanics 👉 Running post-manufacturing CX initiatives in the after-sales market for "Online Repair, Service Prime, eWarranty, SMS updates" Strong

Contrary to common philosophy that Industry 4.0 capabilities are limited to North American and European enterprises, certain Indian Auto Ancillaries are holding strong ground...Auto Ancillary Digital Transformation My set of quick observations:- 1. 2 companies - Gabriel India Limited and Lumax World came as surpise to me while performing the analysis. You can yourself see that these two firms are fighting weight above the belt. While they are small from a market cap standpoin

Motherson Group completed ~23 acquisitions in last 5 years. While 23 in itself is a very high figure especially from a successful integration standpoint, synergy realization being the secondary aspect While I was understanding their current state of digital transformation, of these 23 acquisitions, ~70% acquisitions point to only mechanical know-how, tech-transfer expansion ~30% acquisitions, which is both a significant percentage and absolute value bring in Industry 4.0 and

I have studied 6 Indian Automotive Tier-1's across all manufacturing value chain levers to understand the kind of initiatives they are taking to become better through Industry 4.0 and Digital Transformation Below is the ranking, please note, the ranking will change as more and more players are studied by me Ranking Methodology:- Digital transformation initiatives (taken up in last 1.5 year and those planned for next fiscal) are considered) These initiatives have been fetched