AFTER HAVING ACHIEVED STRONG GROWTH IN recent years, India's machine tool industry is faced with multiple challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic which has had a negative impact on various sectors including automotive, one of the key contributors to the growth. Whereas, several other external and internal issues including changing market dynamics and technology advances are having a ripple effect on the machine tool industry, forcing manufacturers to adapt to the new environment.
Machine tool manufacturers acknowledge that the prolonged global pandemic has posed many challenges for the industry. It has rendered massive effects leading to decline in demand in the machine tool market, says Prashant Sardeshmukh, Managing Director, MMC Hardmetal India Pvt Ltd.
As the COVID-19 continues to spell an unpredictable future for industry, Bijal Patel, Senior Digital Machining Specialist at Sandvik Coromant, says resilience will be needed if manufacturers are to navigate an economically and socially viable path. Manufacturers must adapt existing processes, and do so quickly and cost-effectively.
The pandemic aside that has had cascading effects across the industries, the machine tool industry has been facing multiple disruptions due to changing market dynamics and technology.
Industry players say the automotive sector has been one of the key contributors to the growth of the machine tool industry. However, the global developments in respect of emission regulations and rising concerns of climate change and sustainability have propelled the alternative mobility concept, vis-à-vis electric vehicles. “Although this transition is a long-term process, it has started showing impact on the machine tool industry, accepts Sardeshmukh.
This story is from the January 2022 edition of Manufacturing Today.
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