Tata Motors Jamshedpur plant completes 60 years

On November 19, 2014 Tata Motors celebrated 60 years of truck manufacturing at its first manufacturing and engineering facility in Jamshedpur. Not many would know, but the Tata Motors plant set up in 1945 started with manufacturing steam locomotives. Later it forayed into truck manufacturing, bringing global trucking technology to India in 1954.

According to a company release, since then, Tata Motors’ Jamshedpur plant has been modernised consistently, with a particularly intense scale in the last 10 years, equipped with state-of-the-art equipment and assembly lines to produce a truck every five minutes. The facility assembles over 200 Tata Motors Medium and Heavy Commercial (M&HCV) models, for varied movement of equipment, raw materials, goods and services, across distances, catering to millions of Indians every day. Jamshedpur also houses engineering centres to conduct truck testing for operatability in various climatic conditions and varied surfaces, including dense urban centres, all of which operate under distinct set of rules and regulations, governing commercial vehicles operations. The facility rolled out its two-millionth commercial vehicle, in 2013.

As a development and manufacturing hub for Tata Motors M&HCVs, Tata Motors’ Jamshedpur’s engineering research centre is capable of carrying out complex vehicle design and integration of Tata Motors current and future trucks, also developing complex intelligent electronic control systems of next-generation trucks, cabins, multi-axle trucks, tractor-trailers and tippers and special application vehicles (like mixers and tankers), for both civilian and defence customers. The facility is also capable of manufacturing trucks compliant right up to Euro VI or BS VI (Bharat Stage VI), emission standards.

Tata Motors Jamshedpur also conducts driver training programmes that impart knowledge of truck operations, for better road safety and overall vehicle performance.