Bangalore-based Ola, will partner Siemens to build its upcoming electric vehicle manufacturing facility. The announcement follows Ola’s MoU with the government of the southern state of Tamil Nadu to invest $300 million toward building the manufacturing unit.
With an initial capacity of 2 million electric scooters per year, the facility will be the largest of its kindin the world. It will serve as Ola’s global manufacturing hub catering to its customers in India as well as key markets across Europe, United Kingdom, Latin America and Australia
Built on Industry 4.0 principles, the factory will have 5,000 robots deployed. Ola will have access to Siemens’ integrated Digital Twin design and manufacturing solutions to digitalize and validate product and production ahead of actual operations.
The factory will be AI-Powered with Ola’s proprietary AI Engine and tech stack that continuously self-learns and optimizes every aspect of the manufacturing process. This will provide control, automation and quality to the entire operations in conjunction with Ola’s implementation of cyber-physical and advanced Internet of Everything systems.
Bhavish Aggarwal, chairman and group CEO, Ola, said, “This will be our global hub and will set a benchmark in quality, scale and efficiency, demonstrating India’s capability to build world class cutting edge products. We look forward to bringing this factory online in the coming months and putting our products in the hands of customers.”
Sunil Mathur, managing director and CEO, Siemens India, said, “…we are proud to contribute to Ola’s vision of creating a factory of the future using our automation and digitalization expertise to ensure the highest levels of productivity and quality while enabling an agile and flexible production process.”
