From factory floor to innovation engine: How Freudenberg India is rewriting the manufacturing playbook
For decades, the story of global manufacturing in India was told in the language of cost. Plants were built here because labour was affordable and scale was achievable, and the intelligence that guided what those plants made sat elsewhere, in design centres and R&D campuses thousands of miles away. That story is now being rewritten, and few industrial groups illustrate the rewrite as clearly as Freudenberg.
The German family-owned group, whose businesses span sealing technologies, vibration control, filtration solutions and specialty lubricants, serves industries as varied as automotive, aerospace, pharmaceuticals and food processing. In India, it is doing something that goes well beyond adding capacity. It is turning its operations into a connected, data-driven system in which machines talk to enterprise software, algorithms tune process parameters in real time, and engineers in India contribute directly to the group’s global product roadmaps.
G. Sivasailam, Director & CEO and Freudenberg Regional Representative,...
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