Benchmarking
Benchmarking
Benchmarking is a process of finding the performance of a company’s products and its features against those of another product
considered to be the best in the industry. The role of benchmarking is to measuring internal opportunities for improvement. By
studying companies with great performance, breaking down what makes such great performance possible, and then comparing those
processes to how impliment changes in features and designs on the basis of up coming market value.
There are two basic kinds of improvement opportunities
continuous and dramatic.
- Continuous improvement is incremental, small adjustments etc...
- Dramatic improvement can only come about through re-engineering the whole product.
Benchmark with presently available cars in the market for the following case.
- Performance
- Driveability
- Sound
- Real life fuel consumption
- Pollutant emissions
- Friction
- Energy management
- Vehicle dynamics,
- Handling
- Ride Comfort
for example we take four cars for benchmarking
- Maruti Suzuki Vitara
- Skoda rapid
- Tata Nexon
- Mahindra XUV 300
Model and Specifications
| Model (All are base models) | Maruti Suzuki Vitara |
Skoda Rapid |
Tata Nexon | Mahindra XUV 300 |
| Engine | 1462 cc, 4 Cylinders Inline, 4 Valves/Cylinder, DOHC | 1197 cc, 4 Cylinders Inline, 4 Valves/Cylinder, DOHC | 1199 cc, 3 Cylinders Inline, 2 Valves/Cylinder, SOHC | 1197 cc, 3 Cylinders Inline, 4 Valves/Cylinder, DOHC |
| Engine Type | K15B | 1.2 l Kappa | 1.2L | 1.2 |
| Fuel Type | Petrol | Petrol | Petrol | Petrol |
| Max Power (bhp@rpm) | 103 bhp @ 6000 rpm | 82 bhp @ 6000 rpm | 118 bhp @ 5500 rpm | 109 bhp @ 5000 rpm |
| Max Torque (Nm@rpm) | 138 Nm @ 4400 rpm | 114 Nm @ 4000 rpm | 170 Nm @ 1750 rpm | 200 Nm @ 2000 rpm |
| Mileage (ARAI) (kmpl) | 17.03 | 17.52 | 17.4 | 17 |
| Driving Range (Km) | 817.44 | 788 | 765.6 | 714 |
| Drivetrain | FWD | FWD | FWD | FWD |
| Transmission | Manual - 5 Gears | Manual - 5 Gears | Manual - 6 Gears | Manual - 6 Gears |
| Emission Standard | BS 6 | BS 6 | BS 6 | BS 6 |
| Seating Capacity | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| Safety | 4 Star | 4 Star | 5 Star | 5 Star |
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Conclusion
- I would suggest Tata Nexon for Mr.D.S.Pughazhyendhii because of the Upmarket looks, Five-star G-NCAP safety with Spacious cabin compared to rivals and Easy to drive.
- Over all it has good performance
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