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R&D has been the cornerstone for Bosch’s success story in India. Of its 31,000+ workforce the company employs a whopping 18,500 people in areas relating to R&D. That is a long-term calculated bet on the engineering talent in the country and Bosch had ambitious plans to leverage this talent pool further - to capitalize on opportunities arising from the next industrial revolution and the IoT.

CII and KPMG's first annual survey of Industry 4.0 digital readiness across ten Indian manufacturing sectors, benchmarked against Germany, Japan, South Korea, China, the US, the UK and Singapore. The report exposes wide disparities — large firms score 3.4/5 while MSMEs trail at 2.4 — and although 85% of senior leaders prioritise digitalisation, only 30% of organisations have successfully scaled their initiatives.

Plastech Solutions was already operating at good production capacity since last 12 years. However, after understanding the smart factory approach, Plastech was inspired to take action on adopting the new technologies. After initial discussions with B&R, customer realized below challenges;

Published for CII's 'Smart Factory for Chemicals & Petrochemicals Industry' seminar (Dec 2023) with McKinsey as knowledge partner, this report outlines how digital and analytics (DnA) transformation can unlock competitive advantage for Indian chemical companies — particularly MSMEs — at a time when the sector is projected to grow 11–12% annually through 2027 and triple its global market share by 2040.

Littelfuse wanted to embark on Industry 4.0 transformation journey across multiple plants. However, they faced challenges with old equipment and many manual processes that inhibited their ability to analyze problems. All these factors lead to weak bottom-line performance with longer time for the Root Cause Analysis ( 1 Week) and poor OEE, MTBF, MTBA and MTTR.

Published by the CII Smart Manufacturing Council, this compendium presents eight in-depth case studies from Indian and global companies — including Ace Micromatic Group, B&R India, Bosch India, IBM India, Rockwell Automation India and Siemens India — demonstrating real-world deployments of smart manufacturing technologies and the resulting benefits.