For Eaton, India has become the hub for medium / heavy duty transmission manufacturing for the APAC region.
Kaushalya Gaonkar General Manager, Sales & Marketing, Vehicle Group, Eaton India How is the market of transmission products for CE applications progressing? The construction equipment market, specifically the truck chassis market has been growing
– Kaushalya Gaonkar
General Manager, Sales & Marketing, Vehicle Group, Eaton India
How is the market of transmission products for CE applications progressing?
The construction equipment market, specifically the truck chassis market has been growing well. The focus on infrastructure is supporting the transit mixers and cement bulker segment. Hence, we do anticipate the market for transmission products to grow in India.
What are the types of transmissions used in infra equipment?
In India, the transmissions have been manuals. But as the focus on reducing the fatigue to drivers, improving the operating costs and increasing vehicle operating time takes prominence, we see Automated Manual Transmissions adoption getting accelerated.
What are the key technologies trending in transmission systems?
As mentioned above, automated manual transmissions are seeing early adoption interests. This will help in making the vehicle operations’ more safe, reliable, and help the operating economics.
What are the fuel efficiency features in your range of transmission products?
Eaton has brought the fuel efficiency features by offering various speed and gear ratio options, in-line with the end applications. An appropriate transmission selection helps improve the performance and deliver the optimum fuel efficiency. Our Automated Manual Transmissions, with experienced shift tuning and engine integration, helps to bring consistency in vehicle performance, driver skill agnostic fuel efficiency.
How is ‘Make in India’ gaining momentum in the transmissions market? What are the key challenges faced by the OEMs of transmission products?
For Eaton, India has become the hub for medium / heavy duty transmission manufacturing for the APAC region. We are supplying India-made transmissions to almost all major countries in APAC.
What is your outlook on the transmission products market for the coming years?
The transmissions products market will grow along with the growth in Commercial and CE vehicles in India for the next few years. Adoption of Automated Manual Transmissions is expected to get accelerated with the fleet consolidation and hence focus on reducing the operating costs.
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