Dell desktops now roll out from Chennai
Dell’s first made in India computer rolled out of the conveyor at its newly established assembly line at Sriperumbudur, near Chennai. The Sriperumbudur facility, in which Dell intends to invest $30 million over the next five years, now has a single assembly line, with a capacity to roll out four lakh units per annum on a single shift basis.
The first locally manufactured desktop was handed over to Dell’s largest customer in India, Infosys Technologies. While the company can operate upto three shifts, it also has enough land at its disposal to set up additional lines to achieve its production ramp up schedule to roll out 2.5 million units per annum over the next few years.
Mr.Rajan Anadan, Vice president and GM, Dell India, told that they had commenced production, which was third in entire Asia-Pacific region and Japan. He added that the sriperumbudur facility was also their third plant to go on stream that year, with two others in Brazil and Poland.
He said that the facility was very strategic for their operations in India and it would help in reducing the lead time for delivery by 40 percent – 50 percent. He also said that it would also help in reducing costs and they would pass on the benefits to the customers.
The first desktop of Dell India was handed over to Group Captain Deepak Sinha, vice president-CCD and Mr.R.N.Koushik, AVP-CCD, Infosys, in the presence of Mr.Kip Thompson, vice president, worldwide facilities and Mr.K.Y.Yong, GM, Manufacturing Operations, both from Dell.
Mr.thompson, who was earlier instrumental in launching Dell products in the country, said that they had put up the facility in just a short eight months and it was great day for manufacturing and technology in India. Mr.Yong said that the new facility had come up over 1.1 lakh sq ft of built up area. He said that they had been allocated 50 acres and they had plenty of space set up addition assembly lines and 100 acres have been allocated for suppliers and they intend to establish an eco-system comprising many of their 90 vendors present globally.
Dell has an overall market share of 6 percent in India. However, it has established around 30 percent share among large corporates. It has recently entered the banking and financial services segment.
