industrialautomationindia.in > Interviews > M2M connectivity is the basic infrastructure that every plant should have

Amit Saluja, Senior Director and Centre Head, NASSCOM CoE, Gandhinagar.Do you feel that India has finally caught up in deployment of automatic machines and processes at all levels of Industry? Which areas are we ahead of and where are we lagging?Amit...

industrialautomationindia.in > Cover story > Automation in Automotive Industry

Experts debate how the automotive industry is taking its symbiotic relationship with automation to the next level.Automation in Automotive IndustryRight from the time Henry Ford introduced the moving assembly line to keep pace with the growing demand...

industrialautomationindia.in > Interviews > We are not too far from Industry 4.0 but we are not there yet

Atul Marwaha, Executive Vice President, DesignTech Systems Pvt Ltd.Smart manufacturing is not a concept getting relevant in conjunction with Industry 4.0; even more, it begins with use of basic automation and control from Industry 3.0. Do you feel th...

industrialautomationindia.in > Articles > All process controls at our plants are automated

DS Ravindra Raju, President – Manufacturing, Deepak Fertilisers And Petrochemicals Corporation Limited (DFPCL).A view of the Ammonia Plant of DFPCL.As the largest producer of IPA, what is it normally used for – in India and globally?Isopr...

industrialautomationindia.in > Articles > Smart Sensors and Manufacturing Transformation

Smart sensors and the digitisation of manufacturing plants will help MSME companies to improve productivity and quality, says Darshana Thakkar. Sensor explained. Graphic: YokogawaLike so many other industries, manufacturing has become incre...

industrialautomationindia.in > News > Research today: Industrie 4.0 for… plants?

Optimizing an ongoing production process is very difficult, but that is exactly what three Fraunhofer institutes are working on. In the new Fraunhofer high-performance center "Networked, Adaptive Production" in Aachen they are building a co...

industrialautomationindia.in > Articles > Dynamic Alarms in Plant Operations and Management

Gone are the days that undervalued and underutilized alarms in production plants. Now, all the processes and operations are in line and co-ordinate with alarm installed in the plants. So, the alarm systems have the significant part in the operator in...

industrialautomationindia.in > Interviews > Cloud-based tools will make people more productive, plants more efficient

 Emerging Trends in Instrumentation & Controls‘Cloud-based tools will make people more productive, plants more efficient’ Shyam Warialani, Managing Director, Baumer Technologies India Pvt LtdWhat are the changes in selection ...

industrialautomationindia.in > Interviews > Plant operations were automated to minimise manual intervention

B Sai Ramesh, Head, Chennai Engineering Division.B Sai Ramesh, Head, Chennai Engineering Division.For operating a plant, Instrumentation is a very crucial element and yet young engineering entrants find other disciplines more enticing. What would be ...

industrialautomationindia.in > Articles > Building a Smart Factory-I: From Automation to Autonomy    

In this two-part article, Colin Koh discusses Industry 4.0 and the future of global manufacturing operations.​Figure 1: The Global Decline of Manufacturing.About ten years after entering the global manufacturing sector's consciousness, Industry...