Industrial Automation has an interesting April 2020 Edition in the offing for discerning readers.
Published on : Thursday 26-03-2020
Covering a broad theme of Transforming the Industry, the Cover Story will present expert views on how digitalisation has facilitated Individualisation leading to Mass Customisation, signalling a shift from conventional Manufacturing.
Think of the automobile today and the many variants of a single model – or even many models based on a single platform across manufacturers. The several engine and drivetrain options, trim levels and even colour shades. The smartphone is another example with countless makes and literally thousands of models and a million versions. While facilitating all this, modern manufacturing also is alive to environmental concerns and cleaning its act towards a more sustainable development model with decarbonisation of energy and a gradual shift to circular economy. The cover story complemented by topical article from Jasbir Singh, Director, ECPR Technologies and Titli Chatterjee who is leading the ER&D/Industry 4.0 research initiatives of NASSCOM. The world today is battling the CoronaVirus pandemic which has claimed over 11,000 lives in three months and still counting, with close to 300,000 positive cases awaiting cure. With factories in the global manufacturing hub China shut down for several weeks and subsequent disruption of supply chains, job losses and much else, the spectre of global recession is looming large on the horizon. What will be the impact of this catastrophic development on industry? The world will have to come to terms with the rising trend of WFH or Work From Home, where possible. More automation and a gradual shift to Lights Out manufacturing is another possibility. The April Edition features 3-4 articles talking about various possibilities and options.
Among the Interviews there is one featuring Mr B Narayan, Group President (Procurement and Projects), Reliance Industries Ltd, who spoke to Industrial Automation on the side-lines of the PPPA Meet 2020 held recently in Mumbai. Another interview from the same event with brothers Amit & Puneet Talesara of Pyrotech Group from Udaipur has interesting information on developments in modular control rooms. There is also an insightful interview with Rakesh Channaiah, Co-Founder & Chief Business Officer, DeepSight AI Labs. Mr Channaiah was featured in a NASSCOM’s ‘A Primer on Startup Driven Industrial Stories’, November 2019.
Besides these special features, there are the regular technology articles, a couple of use cases, a selection of important news of the previous weeks and profiles of new products.