Toyoda Gosei will use a newly built plant in Maharashtra, western India, to demonstrate improvements to painting robots and sequenced delivery aligned with vehicle assembly order. Following its selection for a large-scale demonstration subsidy from METI, the company aims to reduce CO2 emissions and optimize inventory and logistics.
As part of a demonstration project in India, Toyoda Gosei will upgrade robots used in the painting process to improve paint transfer efficiency and reduce CO2 emissions. It will also introduce a digitally managed sequenced delivery system to supply parts at the required times.
The demonstration will be conducted at a newly built plant in Maharashtra, in central-western India. Toyoda Gosei aims to improve production efficiency and reduce labor requirements by applying production technologies developed in Japan to local conditions. The company intends to bring the project into practical use locally at an early stage by addressing quality requirements, rising labor costs and logistics challenges.
The subsidy supports large-scale demonstration projects in the Global South and is intended to strengthen economic cooperation between Japanese companies and local markets. Toyoda Gosei plans to apply the experience to equipment design and DX development in Japan as well, with future expansion in mind.
The initiative is expected to help promote environmentally responsible manufacturing in Japan's automotive parts industry.