How has been the Indian manufacturing industry evolving in terms of its approach to using machine tools in the recent times, particularly with regards to the customer segments that you cater to?
India is a unique market; there are companies which aspire to be the best in the class, and we can proudly say that we are the only country to have received the most number of Deming awards, outside of Japan. At the same time, our manufacturers are striving to be the low cost producer in the world. This puts tremendous pressure on our manufacturers to produce the highest quality possible at the lowest possible cost. One of the key ingredients to achieve this is the availability of world class solutions at a competitive price in India.

Korber Schleifring India with its group of well renowned and highly reliable grinding machine manufacturers is supporting this cause by providing competitive grinding solutions with high productivity and reliability. Backed by advanced technological inputs from our global brands and localised Indian support for application development and after sales service support our customers are in a position to use our high precision grinding machine to optimum extent. The high reliability of our products ensures that our manufacturers are able to get consistently high precision components which ultimately leads to better product quality and finally to better customer satisfaction.

What has been your focus on - providing standard solutions or providing customised solutions?
The manufacturing technology is becoming more and more advanced as well as complicated and at the same time the user industry is becoming more focussed towards their core competencies. This is leading to machine tool manufacturers to provide complete customised solutions to the user industries. Tooled up solutions including simple automation is becoming a common trend in today's highly competitive and rapidly changing market.

The end-user is interested in his production taking off in the shortest possible time so that he can meet his customers' fast changing demands. He is not interested in creating the knowhow in-house, but will rather want machine tool manufacturers to provide him with globally proven solutions customised to his requirement. Our long association with the user industries worldwide give us, at Korber Schleifring India, the advantage of being able to meet this pressing need of our Indian customers.