Ola Partners Siemens for its EV Manufacturing Facility

India’s home grow mobility leader, Ola announced its partnership with Siemens as it looks at rapidly building its upcoming electric vehicle manufacturing facility. This comes at the backdrop of Ola signing MoU with TN government for Rs.2,400 crore investment to set up world’s largest scooter factory.

The company said in a statement that it will generate almost 10,000 jobs and with an initial capacity of two million units a year, it will be the largest scooter manufacturing facility in the world. The hub will act as Ola’s global manufacturing hub, catering to its customers in India and key markets across Europe, UK, Latin America and ANZ.

The partnership with Siemens will allow Ola to have access to Siemen’s integrated Digital Twin design and manufacturing solutions to digitalize and validate product and production ahead of actual operations.

According to Siemens, a production digital twin will be helping in the validation of how well the manufacturing process will work on the shop floor before anything actually goes to production.

“Ola’s factory will be built on Industry 4.0 principles and will be the most advanced manufacturing facility in the country. It will have almost 5,000 robots deployed across various functions,” said the statement.

Ola further said that the factory will be AI-powered with Ola’s proprietary AI engine and tech stack deeply integrated into every aspect of the manufacturing process, continuously self-learning and optimizing every aspect of the manufacturing process.

"Ola is delighted to partner with Siemens to build the most advanced manufacturing facility in the country. 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," Ola Chairman and Group Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Bhavish Aggarwal said.

Sunil Mathur, Managing Director and CEO of Siemens India, said the company is a global leader in Industry 4.0.
“We are proud to contribute to Ola's vision of creating a factory of the future using our automation and digitalisation expertise to ensure the highest levels of productivity and quality while enabling an agile and flexible production process,” he added.