Anti-Counterfeiting Solutions for the Automotive Industry - The Spurious Parts Menace While poorly designed Cars that don't meet Safety Standards and Poorly designed Roads are contributors to Accidents and Deaths on the Road. Counterfeit products are an equally big danger to our lives and no one really seems to taking sufficient action on this issue.
This thread would be focused on the issue of Duplicate / Fake / Counterfeit products sold in Automotive Industries & the Anti-Counterfeiting measures that Automotive Companies can adopt to curtail the problem.
It would cover: (Not necessarily in this order.)
a) The extent of the problem
b) A bit about the Regulations / Regulators and their efforts.
c) The current measures adopted by a few of the Automobile Companies - Are they enough.
d) The various solutions that exist and their pros and cons.
e) The Simplest & Lowest Cost Solution/s (In my view). - How easy is it to implement?
f) A general discussion by all of us on how the We, The Automotive Companies (including Auto Spares Ancillaries) & The Government can take this to the next level. - Honda Siel Cars India, Volkswagen India, Fiat India Automobiles, BMW India, Ford India, General Motors India, Hindustan Motors, Mahindra & Mahindra, Mercedes-Benz India, Nissan Motor India, Skoda Auto India, Toyota Kirloskar Motor, Maruti Suzuki and Tata Motors
- the Competition Commission of India (CCI) recently slapped a penalty of Rs. 2,545 crore on 14 carmakers
- Among others, a fine of Rs. 84.58 crore has been imposed on General Motors, followed by Honda Siel (Rs. 78.47 crore), Skoda Auto India (Rs. 46.39 crore), Ford India (Rs. 39.78 crore), Fiat India Automobiles (Rs. 29.98 crore), BMW India (Rs. 20.41 crore), Mercedes-Benz (Rs. 23.08 crore), Hindustan Motors (Rs. 13.85 crore), Volkswagen India (Rs. 3.25 crore) and Nissan Motors (Rs. 1.63 crore).
Have listed below the links that cover the stated move to make manufacturers start over the counter spare part sales. They have been restricting this stating reasons such as prevention of Spurious Spares in the market and of course absence of sufficient technical knowhow outside the authorized centres. - Over the counter spares sales is to some extent linked with Anti-counterfeiting. The Government wishes to empower us and enable healthy competition, while the Car Manufacturers wish to ensure only genuine spares manufactured by them are used in their vehicle, but there are at times lower cost options available directly from OEM supplier that match or exceed the quality of the original spares.
- Also we are all aware of the instance of a Skoda Authorized Centre being taken to the courts by "Harish" for them installing Spurious / Fake Spares in his car at the Authorized Centre.
- Multiple car manufacturers like TATA, Maurti etc. do now already make over the counter spares available. But the next and required step is for these to be available at any multiband spares outlet and for the customers to be empowered enough to spot the fake products and distinguish them form the genuine ones.
- http://www.team-bhp.com/forum/indian...are-parts.html
See post no 156, 184 on the above thread.
- The Court Order link:
http://www.cci.gov.in/May2011/OrderO.../27/032011.pdf
- Press Coverage:
http://www.livemint.com/Companies/l7...ce=ref_article
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Last edited by GTO : 24th February 2015 at 12:32.
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