Hewlett-Packard rolled out the one millionth unit from its manufacturing facility in Pantnagar, Uttarakhand.  Setup with an initial investment of Rs. 100 crore, the plant commenced operations in March 2007 and has an installed capacity of 5.7 mn units per year for manufacturing desktops, workstations and notebooks. It took the team at HP factory merely 25 months from its start to reach this milestone of manufacturing the one millionth unit. The team took about 14 months to complete the production of its first 500,000 units and 11 months for the next 500,000 units. This has been made possible with HP’s state of art facility at Pantnagar which employs over 500 people who go through world class training periodically.

Being the market leader, Hewlett-Packard was the first MNC in India to have established a manufacturing facility in the country to cater to the growing demand for HP products across the nation while reducing the product delivery time. HP has the widest portfolio of technology products spanning consumers and commercial segments and has been ranked no. 1 in the Indian PC market across all product categories quarter on quarter by IDC. During 1Q 2009, HP India retained the top spot in the overall India Client PC (Notebooks and Desktops combined) market with a market share of 18.2% by unit shipment.

Congratulating the team on achieving this milestone, Shalyn Lee, Vice President, Supply Chain, Personal Systems Group, HP Asia Pacific and Japan, said, “Today India represents a strategic market for HP and our facility in the country reiterates our commitment to serve our customers in the region. The world class HP facility at Pantnagar is a progression to the next level of hardware manufacturing for HP India.”

Ravi Swaminathan, President, Personal Systems Group, HP India, further added, “With strong infrastructure and favorable government policies, we see Uttarakhand emerging as a key manufacturing hub for the IT sector.”

Being the technology leader in the industry, the HP facility is designed for excellence and optimizes use of technology as a key differentiator at each step of the manufacturing process.  Process control, quality control, IT application, and packaging excellence are brilliantly built into the entire system. This results in a manufacturing process that lends a geometrical precision to the technological competence of its products. The technology at the facility adopts the latest best practices using real time onsite upgrades of operating system software and other crucial internal and external benchmarks. Meticulous audits are undertaken to streamline and optimize the manufacturing process; internal and external process controls lead to zero tolerance for manufacturing defects. Thus it comes as no surprise that HP’s manufacturing facility has been recognized by the industry through various certifications such as the ISO 9001 certification since July 2007.