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WEISS expands expertise and availability in India

In 2020, a year determined by the to open a knowledge exchange platform improvements in the purchasing and
Corona pandemic, WEISS GmbH from not only for India but for the whole supply chain structure go hand in hand
Buchen, Germany, took an important APAC region. To Sanjeebit Choudhury with WEISS‘s plan to expand the sales
step and opened its Campus in Pune, it is especially important to share the network. Uwe Weiss, the entrepreneur
India. After only two years, WEISS organization’s knowledge to increase who heads the WEISS World group of
Automation Solutions India Pvt. Ltd. has customer centricity and improve the companies in the second generation, said
now established a solution factory, where company’s performance for customers. that it was necessary to take the step due
components and subsystems that meet to India’s importance in the South Asian
the needs of the local market will be Everything from a single source from and APAC regions: “India has a very high
designed and realized. The automation component to subsystem: To keep potential when it comes to economic
solutions satisfy the requirements of delivery times as short as possible growth and the number of skilled people
customers and sectors in the APAC region for the rotary indexing tables, which available in the labor market. At the same
as well as users in China. have proven their value for time, the geographical position of India,
At the opening ceremony, decades, selected product particularly the Pune location, is ideal for
Uwe Weiss, CEO of types and sizes will be us as the starting point for sup- plying
parent company WEISS, assembled in India in the our customers reliably throughout the
and Sanjeebit Choudhury, future. Furthermore, the entire Asian region.” In line with this
Vice President Asia Pacific recently opened solution maxim, WEISS India’s CEO increases the
and CEO of WEISS India, factory widens WEISS India’s customer service activities such as after-
welcomed numerous guests expertise and makes it a full sales services, refurbishment and retrofit
of honor. The two CEOs were range supplier in automation. support and spare part delivery.
particularly pleased to see The components and solutions
VDMA representatives and Achim Fabig, designed and made in India will meet Long-term investment: Due to
General Consul of the Federal Republic of the expectations not only of customers India‘s potential based on a very well-
Germany, there. from India but also from a broader educated, aspiring workforce, and the
market region. As WEISS has decades count- ries committed way of improving
Building up know-how for higher of experience in setting up automa- ted general conditions, many opportunities
customer services: WEISS has more assembly processes, it is as well a reliable are opening up for Uwe Weiss. The
than 55 years of experience in automation partner for both – beginners in the field foundation of a solution factory, a local
systems especially in rotary indexing of automation as well as advanced assembly and a global sourcing center as
tables. These where first designed to companies dealing with optimization well as the will to establish an academy
meet the requirements of the automotive issues and digitization. Offering CAD underlines the German automation
industry but nowadays are installed in data and simulation models facilitates experts’ long-term plans. In specific areas,
automation systems to a broad range of construction of whole automation WEISS relies on skilled Indian talents, as
industries such as communication, life systems and virtual commissioning. made obvious by the company’s purchase
science, electronics, and consumer goods. of Ecotech IT Solutions in July 2022. The
The local experts collaborate closely with Enlarging engagement and network: IT services company provides services
their colleagues in Buchen (Germany) in WEISS supplies products to customers around customer-specific application
order to ensure the high quality standards in a total of 49 countries around the development and maintenance, digital
of WEISS. In addition, they support globe and highly values being close product development, IT infrastructure,
customers in engineering as well as in to its customer. The Indian subsidiary cloud services and IT personnel services.
commissioning of the WEISS components will also support the global sourcing Ecotech continues to operate as an
and solutions. In the long run WEISS strategy in the future, thereby acting independent unit in the market with its
plans to establish an academy for both as a further building block for making own group of customers. As production
employees and customers. The overall delivery times shorter. At the same time, automation continues its digitalization,
strategy is to connect experts in the field this strategy increases the availability of the company’s interfaces to the parent
of automation from different industries WEISS components in the region. The company will increase.

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