"Quality must come first without compromise or cutting corners. The world still comes to India for cost advantages. But we should attract the world on the value of our products not...
"Consistent quality and delivery performance are still going to be the main factors to take the Indian auto industry to the next level.”
"We have signed up with some of the biggest domestic OEMs and are in talks with several others for possible partnerships in the near future."
"This is a simple mantra. No business is small or gigantic; or good or average. It’s the approach you bring to your business process."
"While, the components industry has vast potential in and outside India, we need to understand customers’ expectations, stated and implied."
"I always believed in getting my hands dirty, working my way up and learning through hands on experience. That is how I made up for my lack of technical knowledge."
"You have to have the ability to see what others don’t see and then do what you have to do to get there; which means intuition, leadership and a very steady nerve."
"Why is it that while we are called a manufacturing hub, yet we have to rely on ‘German and Japanese’ machines to manufacture products to world standards, even after decades of manufacturing...
"As far as manufacturing is concerned – particularly in terms of forgings and castings - Indian auto component players are as good as anybody else in the world."
Deccan Auto Ltd has forayed into bus manufacturing with its newly inaugurated plant in Telangana. The Machinist caught up with MSRV Prasad, Chairman of Deccan Auto Ltd, and Balaji,...