Car market leader Maruti Suzuki’s India (MSIL) Manesar facility crossed the 25 lakh production milestone this month.
A Swift Zxi was the 25 lakh vehicle that rolled out from the Manesar B Line, the company said in a statement.
Spread over 600 acres, the Manesar facility houses three plants, Manesar A, B and C with total annual capacity of eight lakh units. In addition, the Manesar campus also has the diesel engine plant and a suppliers’ park, it said.
“The Manesar facility achieved the 25 lakh production milestone in seven years and eight months. The plant manufactures some of the top selling models of the country like Swift, DZire and now Celerio. This milestone would be the fastest for any car manufacturing plant in the country,” Rajiv Gandhi, Executive Director (Plants, MSIL, said.
While the company achieved the milestone, it has successfully implemented several ideas from the employees on the important production pillars of productivity, cost, quality and safety, he said
Like the Gurgaon facility, the three Manesar plants have several in-built quality checks and systems to ensure that cars being manufactured are of top quality.
There is a high degree of automation and robotic control in the press shop, weld shop and paint shop to carry on manufacturing work with precision and higher quality, the company said.
Areas where manual operations are challenging and difficult are supported by automation and robotics.
Early this year, the company also commissioned a 1MW mono-crystalline photovoltaic Solar Power Plant inside the Manesar facility, set up at an investment of ₹10.30 crore, to help the company offset carbon-dioxide emissions to the tune of over 1,200 tonnes annually.
The company’s twin facilities at Gurgaon and Manesar have together rolled out over 1.4 crore vehicles cumulatively, it added.