Bangalore: Toyota Kirlsokar Motor (TKM) on Monday launched its "Express Maintenance" service here, which promises one-hour maintenance service for all Toyota vehicles. The service will be extended to four dealerships across the country by the end of the year.

Launching the service at Ravindu Toyota, K.K. Swamy, deputy managing director of TKM, said the initiative utilises the Toyota production system and Kaizen methodologies to increase customer satisfaction and retention. The service reduces servicing time of a vehicle to one hour from the existing one day.

Platform for Indian labs

About 120 companies from India and overseas are expected to participate in Analytica-Anacon to be held in Bangalore from November 16 to 18.

The event is going to be a platform for the Indian analysis and laboratory-technology industry. The range of exhibits at Analytica-Anacon will address decision-makers and users in Indian laboratories in the industrial and research sectors.

Asia is a large, rapidly growing market for instrumental analysis and laboratory technology, according to a press release from the organisers.

Last year Asia's share of global market volume, which totalled over eight billion euros, was less than one-third. Along with China, India is considered one of the most important growth markets for analysis, laboratory-technology, diagnostic and biotechnology solutions in Asia.

At present, India is trying hard to combine the strengths of the software industry with modern biotechnology in order to compete in the future market for bioinformatics, and it is aiming for a five per cent share of the overall global market, the release said.

Cades' new design centre

Cades, an engineering product design and development solutions company, on Monday inaugurated its new Engineering Design Centre in Bangalore. The centre was inaugurated by C.G. Krishnadas Nair, president, Society of Aerospace Technologies and Industries.

In its five years of operation, Cades has grown from a few engineers to over 350 engineering software professionals, domain experts and consultants working on engineering design, product lifecycle management and virtual product development in the automotive and aerospace sectors.

Epigon launches speakers

Bangalore-based Epigon Media Technologies has launched "Speaker Magic," designed to provide a better listening experience and high fidelity output to PC users.

It is a plug-in for Windows Media Player and designed to bring the originality and clarity of the music on any speaker. It adopts continuous signal processing and enhances the threshold level and brings up the low level and transient signals that are normally missed by speakers, states a press release.

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