Focus on quality and innovation: Auto makers to component players

Auto component manufacturers should strive to improve the quality of the products they supply to the car makers and at the same time should also invest in developing new technology, top executives of the automobile industry said at the 56th Annual Convention of the Automobile Component Manufacturers Association of India(ACMA). Going by the theme of the convention – Quality and Innovation – top executives of Tata Motors, Ashok Leyland and Maruti Suzuki exhorted the component suppliers to build new technological platforms and develop a new road map for the future as the automobile market is set to embrace a paradigm shift due to the transformation to the BS VI regime by 2019.