AUTOMATION INDUSTRY – The smart future

Mr. Kalidas Bhangare, Managing Director – Testo India Pvt. Ltd.

Q. What trend will drive Automation industry in near future ?
The industry is turning to smart and user-friendly technology. Gone are the days that required manual intervention, calculations and analysis. We have such technology solutions that reduce manual intervention to bare minimum, make the processes error free and bring in a lot of ease & convenience. Talking about Testo itself, we have so many measuring instruments that are now integrated with apps on smartphones or tablets. The App integration via Bluetooth opens up new possibilities for efficient analysis and documentation. The users can read off the measurement data on a Smartphone or tablet, allowing them to work more quickly and conveniently. Taking it yet another step ahead, we also have the possibility of having measurement data stored in the cloud. The user can then access the online climate monitoring data anytime, anywhere absolutely.

Q. What is the impact of Union budget on the industry?
With the vision to make India as a manufacturing hub of the world, Union budget does incentivise entrepreneurship. It is especially the technology sector that was the focus and the sunrise sector in this union budget. It is expected that the industry and the manufacturing sector receives a major boost through this.

Q. What are the remedies do you suggest to improve the positioning of the industry you are into?
Quality and efficiency are the major drivers for the industry Testo stands in. As the industry turns more quality conscious, need for better controlled processes arises. And this is what precisely Testo’s measuring instruments do – be it climate monitoring, production quality monitoring, food production & transport monitoring and so on. Also, quality standards and industry norms need to be strictly followed and regulated. That provides an impetus to the industries to set up and maintain quality standards. At the same time, efficiency can be achieved through optimisation. Testo offers several solutions such as flue gas analyser for optimisation of fuel usage, compressed air flow meter for optimising compressed air consumption and thereby energy consumption.
Quality & efficiency both should lead the industry to be leaner and more profitable. Testo just exactly does that.