The IEC Honours and Awards program was held on 15th November, 2025 at Ileaf Grand Banquets, Vashi, Navi Mumbai.
An important part of the two-day Automation Week program organised by the Instrumentation Experts Club (IEC) was the Honours and Awards function that was held on Day 2 of the event.
IEC expressed its appreciation to scores of automation professionals across India and felicitated key persons in the Indian automation fraternity who have made great contributions towards the growth of the Industry, Academia and IEC at large. The awards were presented across various categories as elaborated at length in the following paragraphs. Awards were also presented to the companies that made the hosting of the event possible, including the sponsors across Platinum, Gold and Silver categories, all of which had exhibitor stalls at the venue. All the stall awards are lined up alphabetically.
Platinum Sponsors
1. Adage Automation Pvt Ltd.
2. Axis Solutions Ltd.
3. Samson Controls Pvt Ltd.
4. Yokogawa India Ltd.
Gold Sponsors
1. Eaton Electric India Pvt Ltd.
2. Intelliact Automation Pvt Ltd.
3. Peppel & Fuchs India Pvt Ltd.
4. Shrirang Automation & Controls.
Silver Sponsors
1. Delton Cables Limited.
2. Endress+Hauser India Pvt Ltd.
3. Eureka Industrial Equipments Pvt Ltd.
4. Forbes Marshall Pvt Ltd.
5. Proca Engineering Solutions LLP.
6. Pyrotech Workspace Solutions Pvt Ltd.
7. Rittal India Limited.
8. Spirare Energy Pvt Ltd.
9. Wika Instruments India Pvt Ltd.
Stall Sponsors
1. Coldweld Engineers Pvt Ltd.
2. Duncan Engineers Ltd.
3. Thermo Electric company India Pvt Ltd.
Lunch Sponsors:
1. Baumer Technologies India Pvt Ltd.
2. Potence Control.
Lanyard Sponsors:
1. IA Flow Elements Private Ltd.
2. Pune Techtrol Pvt Ltd.
Emerging Leader Awards
1. Mr Chirag Patel, Business Unit Head – Automation & Industrial Products, AXIS Solutions Limited.
2. Mr Jainam Mehta, Founder & Managing Director, Forxar Industries Pvt Ltd.
3. Mr Mukesh Singh, Senior Manager – Projects, Samson Controls Pvt Ltd.
4. Mr Parthik Gajjar, Director – Water & Liquid Segment Business, AXIS Solutions Ltd.
5. Mr Sandeep Bhatt, Regional Sales Director, Endress+Hauser Group.
6. Mr Sarvadnya Kulkarni, CEO, General Instruments Consortium.
Excellence in Technical Innovation Awards
1. Mr Avnish Vats, Managing Director, Spirare Energy Pvt Ltd.
2. Mr Nitin Sabde, ERP System & Configurator, Samson Controls Pvt Ltd.
3. Mr Sureshbabu V, Director, IA Flow Elements Pvt Ltd.
Outstanding/Distinguished Woman Achievers Awards
1. Ms Aafreen Alveena Sayyed, Managing Director, Valgineering EPC Pvt Ltd.
2. Ms Anushka Sharma, Country HR and Admin Head, WIKA Group.
3. Mrs Bosky Patel, Key Account Manager, Yokogawa India.
4. Mrs Darshana Thakkar, MSME Transformation Specialist.
5. Mrs Dhanya Rishikesh, Assistant Director of Operational Excellence, Endress+Hauser Group.
6. Mrs Purvi Sanghavi, Director – R&D, IT & HR, AXIS Solutions Ltd.
Professional Excellence Awards
1. Mr Anand Shah, President – Operations, AXIS Solutions Limited.
2. Mr Deepak Kumar, Additional Chief Engineer, NPCIL.
3. Mr K R Sanjeev, Head – C&I Process Control Group, NPCIL.
4. Mr Rahul Bisht, Reliability Head (Instrumentation), Reliance Industries.
5. Mr Vaibhav R Shetye, India Business Leader – MTL Eaton.
Dr Thampy Mathew, Agate Advisory.
MD/CEO Excellence Award (Indian Company)
1. Dr Jagdish Shukla, CEO & Managing Director, Servilink Systems Limited.
MD/ CEO Excellence Award ( MNC Company)
1. Mr Tan Suan Han, Managing Director, SUPINCO Automation Pvt Ltd.
Life Time Achievement Awards
1. Dr Shankar Mathur, Vice President, Rockwin Flowmeters India Pvt Ltd.
2. Dr Thampy Mathew, CEO, Agate Advisory.
Special Contribution Awards
1. Dr Keyur Vora, Advisor & HoD (C&I), Adani – Petrochemical Business
2. Dr Ravinder Goyal, Managing Director, EIP Enviro Level Controls Pvt Ltd.
3. Dr VP Raman, Empanelled IECEX Trainer, Engineering Consultant.
4. Dr Kirti Shah, Vice President, Projects, Waaree Group.
5. Mr Kartik Fojdar, Head of CoE, Engineering Instrumentation, Reliance Industries Ltd.
IEC Chairman Dr B R Mehta.
6. Dr Jignesh Doshi, Head – Instrumentation at L&T Energy Hydrocarbon
7. Mr K R Sanjeev, Head – C&I Process Control Group, NPCIL.
8. Dr Ashish Manchanda, Managing Director, Finder India Pvt Ltd.
9. Mr S Mahesh Kumar, Deputy General Manager, Engineers India Limited.
10. Mrs Jyothi Joseph, Director, IED Communications.
11. Mrs Benedicta Chettiar, Editor & Publisher, Industrial Automation.
Later, all core committee members gladly joined in the felicitation of the IEC Chairman Dr B R Mehta.
The Vote of Thanks was proposed by Dr B R Mehta to all IEC Members.
At the end of the function, IEC announced the next year’s annual program dates as 20th November and 21st November, 2026 at Ileaf Grand Banquets, Vashi, Navi Mumbai.
