Two Wheelin

TVS Motor Company is India’s number 3 two-wheeler manufacturer that has set up their base in both India and Indonesia while using Japanese technology. With their company being one of the first Indo-Japanese company making two-wheelers, TVS faces much competition from China and Japan as those two countries are the key players in this market. From this visit it was easy to understand how Friedman’s flattener #10 (steroids) connects to the company. With the readily available internet, TVS and other companies are able to easily find information and use it to their advantage. This is where the issue comes up. TVS was recently sued by its major competitor, Bajaj Auto, who claimed that TVS had stolen its technology in using twin spark plugs. With the use of the internet from computers and PDA’s (today’s steroids), TVS is able to claim that the use of twin spark plugs is old and was in existence long before Bajaj had introduced the technology. With this information, TVS will hopefully be able to resolve the issue showing that the information is already available, and is not a new concept.

Even though we weren’t able to take pictures inside the factory, I can tell you that it was one of the cleanest factories I have ever seen. I thought that because it is here in India that it would be in terrible condition, but it appears to me to be just as clean as a factory would be in the US.