Visit to Toyota Engine Industries ..

 

 

Toyota as a company is known for its world class manufacturing and high quality products offering for the world market. We at Alliance School of Business also had a chance to visit another Toyota establishment, the Toyota Engine industries in Jigani Bommasandra area last week. We had met Mr. Santhosh Rao, the Associate VP of Toyota at the Alliance University industry get-together that helped us to arrange this visit on the 8th of December 2021. 

Toyota basically is from the Toyoda group who were till the 1940s manufacturing textile looms. The father Sakichi Toyoda was interested in textile looms manufacturing, incorporating some of the lean principles and Jidoka, while the son Kichiro Toyoda shifted his focus from textile looms to automobiles.  

 

Due to Covid restrictions we could not visit the shopfloor, but Santosh Rao was kind enough to spend an hour with us and explain the subtle difference between Toyota Motors and Toyota engine industries. Toyota engine industries now supplies engines to Camry, Corola. 

 

Besides, during the visit we also explored the possibility of having a couple of internships for the students and project opportunities. The supplier or vendor management of this facility is equally great as TKM and our students wil mostly take up opportunities in the vendor management area.

 

 

This plant supplies the diesel engines to the Corolla class of vehicles, particularly Crysta. Since some Japanese engineers were carrying out some assembly line studies and restructuring exercises we could not visit the shopfloor, but we look forward to visiting the assembly line very soon.

George.