This document discusses material handling equipment used in the automobile sector in India. It begins by outlining the types of automobile factories and projected growth of the automobile sector. It then describes the typical plant layout of a main automobile factory. The bulk of the document identifies and describes the various types of material handling equipment commonly used in automobile factories, such as light profile crane systems, electric chain hoists, wire rope hoists, jib cranes, manipulators, EOT cranes, forklift trucks and tow trucks. It also discusses the demands of the automobile sector from suppliers and performs a SWOT analysis for material handling equipment suppliers to the automobile sector in India.