Building foundation for Smart Manufacturing
Highlight the current landscape and growth prospects of Automation industry in India.
Indian Industrial Automation industry is very diversified. Indian industrial automation is sectored differently which majorly includes types of automation, automation technologies, and end-users. There are companies who are dealing in new machine automation, projects and plants. But there are others who specialize in retrofitting or plant upgradation and modernization. So, although Indian Automation Industry is very competitive, there is space for everyone. There are many global industries setting up their operation in India. The Indian Automation industries are developing their automation competences trying to meet the global standards and to meet the pressing demand for the operation excellence, developed output, quality etc. Industrial automation field usage devices like PLC / DCS / Controllers / HMI / SCADA to product Intelligent and Smart machines to automate the various industrial procedures and decrease human interference. Indian Automation Industry is helping manufacturing setups to get the repeatability, improve quality, productivity, efficiency, safety and manage dependability all through the manufacturing procedures and processes around the industries. The Industrial Automation market is fueled by the growing investments in the secondary manufacturing sector due to the inspiring government policies and fluctuating consumer behavior. India, as a growing economy, is anticipated to grow its manufacturing sector by 25%-30% by FY2030. Based on the forecast period of 2017-2023, the Industrial Automation Market in India will observe a significant CAGR of 11.6%. Considering the current situation, it is expected that the market for industrial automation in India will increase more significantly over the decades.
How are your products/services geared up to be in line with recent trends, such as Industry 4.0 and Smart Manufacturing?
HMS is one of the leading supplier of IIoT / Industry 4.0 / Edge Gateways. We have a very powerful, reliable, complete and very well proven IIoT Gateways’ product line that meets most of the Industry 4.0 demands from the end customers. We, at HMS, generally focus on Machine builders to lay strong foundation for Smart Manufacturing. We always request our potential customers to share their pain points and areas of improvement. We suggest them to focus on areas such as Machine data, Production Data, Quality Data, Energy Data, Operator Data (to determine if the operator is skilled enough or need training), Machine performance, Capacity utilization etc. and based on this, the user gest analyzed insight for improvement. The yield will be improved automatically if such weak areas and pain points are addressed. The direct and indirect ROI helps manufacturing setups in quality, manufacturing flexibility, reduction in rejection, lower machine downtime, avoid breakdowns, lower operating cost, predictive maintenance, improved efficiency, proactive decision making and many more. HMS works as a reliable and transparent partner with our customers for proper implementation of IIoT platform. We know it is very important for us that we understand user’s objectives and offer an adequate, robust and reliable solution. We, as IIoT platform company, request our customers to take small steps for fair chances of success for their Industry 4.0 implementation. We request our customers to define milestones and go to next level once one level is completed successfully and effectively. And the organization should clearly define goals for each level to declare it successful and close it properly.
What is your vision for your company (in terms of new product launch, innovation/collaborations)? How do you see your brand growing by 2020?
We offer one of the most popular and flexible eWON IIoT product line which is very widely used amongst many verticals. The major focus is on machine builders, plants, infrastructure projects and IIoT / IT companies offering Industry 4.0 solution. We offer Industrial grade IIoT platform which is designed to use in harsh and challenging Industrial environment to meet customer’s expectations. Our strength is data acquisition from disparate networks (all major PLC protocols embedded for data acquisition), offer logged data to user’s cloud server, local buffering time stamped data points, flexible cloud connectivity (LAN, Cellular, WiFi), remote programming of field device any many more. HMS has very ambitious plans of growing business in India. We are growing multifold every year and we plan to continue doing so. We are and we will be one of the strongest contender for IIoT offerings in future.
