Daifuku Intralogistics India Hyderabad Manufacturing Facility

Project Overview

This project marks a significant corporate and manufacturing milestone for Daifuku Intralogistics India rather than a specific customer warehouse. The company successfully designed, engineered, and built its first-ever stacker crane entirely within India. This achievement is positioned as a landmark moment for the "Make in India" initiative, showcasing the country's growing capabilities in advanced intralogistics manufacturing.

The 30-meter-tall stacker crane was manufactured at Daifuku's newly inaugurated, state-of-the-art facility in Hyderabad. The project underscores a long-term commitment to the Indian market, following Daifuku's initial entry in 2005 and the acquisition of Vega Conveyors in 2019, culminating in this local production capability.

The goal was to produce a critical component of Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems (AS/RS) domestically, adhering to global Japanese quality standards, to serve various Indian industries such as automotive, FMCG, food & beverage, pharmaceuticals, and e-commerce, while creating skilled jobs and localizing expertise.

Technical Solution

Made-in-India Stacker Crane

The core achievement is the stacker crane itself, a 30-meter-tall automated machine that runs on rails within an AS/RS to store and retrieve unit loads (pallets). This specific crane is the first of its kind to be fully manufactured by Daifuku within India. It is engineered to meet precise design and customer specifications, focusing on error-free manufacturing, quality, and innovation.

Key Features

The primary feature is the crane's status as the first stacker crane completely manufactured in India by Daifuku, symbolizing a leap in local technical prowess for the warehouse automation sector.

Despite being manufactured locally, the crane is built to uncompromising global Japanese quality standards, ensuring it delivers the precision engineering and performance excellence associated with Daifuku's international products.

The successful production is underpinned by the new, strategically invested Hyderabad plant, which provides the advanced manufacturing base necessary for such complex equipment.

Results & Benefits

The most direct result is the successful launch and commissioning of the first Indian-manufactured Daifuku stacker crane, achieved "right the first time," demonstrating proven design and engineering capabilities.

The project is backed by a significant ₹227 crore investment in the Hyderabad manufacturing hub, which strengthens India's overall position in the high-value sector of advanced intralogistics manufacturing.

The initiative contributes to skilled job creation within India and localizes world-class automation manufacturing capabilities, reducing dependency on imports and supporting the growth of key Indian industries that utilize AS/RS technology.

Challenges & Solutions

The overarching challenge was realizing the vision of "Make in India" for highly engineered, precision intralogistics equipment like stacker cranes, which require stringent quality control. Daifuku overcame this by making a substantial capital investment (₹227 crore) to establish a modern manufacturing facility in Hyderabad. This plant combined Daifuku's global expertise and Japanese quality standards with Indian engineering talent and workforce to successfully produce the complex machine domestically.

System Integrator

This project is about Daifuku Intralogistics India manufacturing a key component of its own systems. Daifuku is both the manufacturer and the implicit system integrator for the future AS/RS projects that will utilize these locally produced stacker cranes. The company has been present in India since 2005 and strengthened its local design and manufacturing capabilities through the acquisition of Vega Conveyors in 2019, leading up to this manufacturing milestone.