Business Analysis : Cummins India

The Cummins diesel engine was manufactured in the year 1919 by its creator Clessie Cummins. The Cummins was put in a variety of vehicles and the most common are in the dodge ram 2500, 3500, 4500, and 5500 series rams. It is also put into more heavy-duty trucks such as Peterbilt semis. The reason people choose Cummins over Chevy’s Duramax or Ford’s Powerstroke is because Cummins’ are built to last longer meaning they can go more hours without maintenance. The Cummins diesel engines have several different designs, and a number of different models, and assembling one takes money, time, effort, and knowledge.

The company’s strategic vision is “To be world’s leading company in IT industry ...and a reputable global auto brand by offering ECO friendly, high quality & low cost products & services.” (BYD Co. Ltd, 2007)

Weak online shopping facility: The Company is relatively new in online selling and need improvement in this regards.

Between 2007 and 2015, the Dodge Cummins 6.7L trucks had a diesel rating at 350 horsepower and 650 lb-ft of torque. They were equipped with AS68RD automatic transmissions. Two more Chassis Cabs were introduced in 2008. These trucks are the workhorses that take you to and from your job, no matter how far off the path your job is. As you need more performance from your Ram, you make changes to the diesel performance parts on your truck.

The strengths of Cummins are many. First, Cummins is much diversified in the engine business and top player market. They are a global company that spans over 7200 dealer locations in 190 territory’s and have more than 600 company and independently owned distributor providers. They produce and provide parts and service on diesel and natural gas powered engines for on highway and off highway use. The company is broke up into four business entities that include Cummins Engine Business, Cummins Power Generation business, Cummins Distribution Business and Cummins Components Business. Cummins employs 55,000 people worldwide and the company was ranked 154 on the fortune 500 in 2015.

Cummins Westport Inc. (“CWI”) is a resident in and incorporated under the laws of the State of Delaware, USA. CWI was formed to develop, support and market a comprehensive product line of low-emission, high performance engines and ancillary products using gaseous hydrocarbon fuels which incorporate spark ignition and other proprietary intellectual property developed by Cummins Inc. (“Cummins USA”) and Westport Fuel Systems Inc. (“Westport Canada”).

The company vouches for customer satisfaction. For its sincere efforts it has been rated (by customers)first in customer satisfaction among all car makers in India for nine years in a row in annual survey by J D Power Asia Pacific.

Moreover, Autotech will have competitive advantage in terms of cost effective and unique products and services as these systems can support in Research and development of Products, services, production process. With ISs, Autotech will able to obtain innovative design of auto parts, production process, modify auto parts, improve auto parts quality, improve production schedules. IS recognise and generate new products and services to grow new markets to drastically change business process via adopting digital forming and simulation of product, design to diminish time and cost of market. Moreover, Information systems manage all the supply chain process from raw materials to where the end product is used. ISs keep records of supply, distribution, storage of goods, manage transport and distribution centres with accuracy and fast. Telecommunication network provides better capability and opportunities in logistics. Supply chain, production process, manufacturing process will impact on sale of Autotech company’s products as Autotech will have quality and cost efficient products. As well, these systems will help to demonstrate and present products to customers in strategic way and product design, scheduling, quality can manage through Information systems. Autotech needs to collect and analyse data of customers’ requirement and their feedback of their products which will be provided by these systems with less

Honda. But due to government rules and regulations the joint venture was not setup and hence failed.

Ford Motor Company is an automobile manufacturing company which manufactures and distributes the products across six continents. Currently, the company has 65 plants producing vehicles under the Ford and the Lincoln brands (Ford Motor Company, 2014). Also, Forbes describes Ford as an important industrial company in the history of the United States. As a consequence, the company boasts of 180000 employees and an annual revenue exceeding 134 billion dollars (Ford Motor Company, 2014). Similarly, the company operation is highly automated, making it necessary for the company to have a Total Quality Management system in place, bearing in mind that ford is one of the first companies in the world to embrace Total Quality Management, as they used the slogan, “Ford has a better Idea” (Scheid, 2011).

Chapter 6 is Quality Product and Process Design. There are several topics to be discussed which are the designing products for quality, the design process, Quality Function Deployment (QFD), technology in design, prototype, design for reliability and environmental considerations in design. This chapter is going to focus on quality assurance. The purpose of this assignment is to understand clearly about the concept of product and process design for quality, the method being used in designing products quality and apply the concept or method in real case.

It has made its name in the global market and has given a good competition to other companies in automobile sector.

Political Tata Motors operates in a vast amount of places all across the world . They’ve had great success in regions like Europe, Africa, Asia, the Middle East and Australia. When it come to politics influences Tata Motors need to pay close attention to Laws and regulations as well as the governing bodies that control the area. Local governments regulate commerce, trade, and investments. The local markets and economies are all influenced by national and local influences.

This work is done to study the improvement of the quality in automobile industry. This chapter consists three sections named as “Problem definition”, “Objectives” and “Methodology of the study” respectively. The section 3.1 named as “Problem definition” describes the challenge or difficulty that is to be solved. The solution may be achieved after fulfilling the objective by using some sub-objectives that are described in section 3.2 named as “Objectives”. The methodology described in section 3.3 in details. This methodology has been devised keeping in mind the view of “Problem definition” and the “Objectives” that are suggested for the fulfilment of the solution for the problem.

Today Tata Motors ranks as the world’s fifth-largest manufacturer of medium and heavy trucks—it has a 61 percent domestic market share in this segment—and has taken the number-two position for sales of passenger vehicles in the Indian market. It has also built a significant global presence, both through sales efforts in overseas markets (such as the former Soviet republics, the Middle East, South Africa, South Asia, and Turkey) and through acquisitions such as the takeover of Daewoo’s commercial-vehicle business in South Korea and the purchase of a 21 percent stake in the Spanish bus