No Wait Nano: Tata Nanos start rolling out of Sanand

Ratan Tata Inaugurating the Nano's Sanand Plant

Ratan Tata, today, pulled the wraps off the Sanand Plant in Gujarat, thus indelibly marking a game changing day for the Tata Nano. Wondering why? Here’s why. With this inauguration, the wait for the Tata Nano could dramatically decrease from the year long waiting periods to a point where you could simply walk in to your nearest Tata dealer and drive out with the Nano, just like you do with your iPods and mobile phones.

To make all of this possible, and then some more, the 1100 acre Tata Nano manufacturing plant at Sanand can churn out 2,50,000 Nanos every year. This can see a further boost to 3,50,000 units in under a year if demand calls for it culminating in a whopping 5,00,000 Nanos per year final capacity. To put that in perspective, that is about a Nano every minute.

If not anything else, this factor should be putting the Tata Nano Sanand plant straight into Discovery Channels’ Mega-factories series. Coming back to the Sanand plant, most of the vendors manufacturing parts for the Tata Nano are being housed in the sprawling Sanand manufacturing campus, thus enabling Tata to have better control on both quality and specifications of the Nano parts. This could naturally mean less manufacturing issues and overall a higher quality Tata Nano.

While we’re wondering whether the vendors’ location inside the Sanand plant would lead to cost benefits, there is no official word of that yet. All said, today is a momentous day for the Indian car industry and India as a whole as the iconic one lakh car could finally become a consumer durable that is as easy and as hassle free as buying a mobile phone, quite literally, in the land of the Gandhi.

Image Courtesy: Autocar India

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