OEM Update March 2015

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OEM UPDATE Can robotics create manufacturing jobs?

While robotics in manufacturing is not a utopian concept otherwise conceptualised, they are all about productivity and what they could to manufacturing

INSIDE Material handling for efficient manufacturing The future of welding Henkel sets its focus on Indian market BITZER: inching towards growth

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Can robotics create manufacturing jobs?

OEM UPDATE

While robotics in manufacturing is not a utopian concept otherwise conceptualised, they are all about productivity and what they could to manufacturing

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CONTENTS FEATURES

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22 Evolution in cleaning of powertrain components On the new EcoCFlex 3, one CNC controller for the machine and the integrated scara manipulator replaces the previously required PLC and robot control unit

24 Creating a new machining revenue stream!

Colibri’s new Typhoon high-speed spindle easily connects to a standard CNC’s existing spindle, reaches speeds of up to 50,000 RPM

Machine tools industry in India to scale to $ 3-4 bn by 2020 With customer requirements becoming more stringent, the machine tool industry needs to evolve to meet the customer expectations

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26 Henkel sets its focus on Indian market Jeremy Hunter, President, Henkel Group – India highlights the company’s commitments to the Indian market.

28 Material handling for efficient manufacturing A detailed analysis on the role of material handling equipment in increasing productivity for a manufacturing facility

30 BITZER: inching towards growth

Make in India: Placing ‘Industry 4.0’ in Context With an increasingly globalised manufacturing environment, it is expected that Industry 4.0 must form a key part of the intellectual debate driving the “Make in India” initiative

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Experts from Bitzer talk on the company’s business activities in India and future growth plans.

34 The future of welding The article highlights new norms and technology that set trends in welding

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India has reached a ‘sweet spot’ and can create an opportunity to propel into a double-digit growth trajectory, said the Economic Survey. The growth at market prices for 2015-16 is expected to between 8.1 and 8.5 per cent, it forecasted.

Alarming rise in the stalling of projects was the major bottlenecks during the last 5 years as far as economic activities are concerned. Though the Survey has expressed concern over the same, it expressed satisfaction over the counter measures taken. “The good news is that the rate of stalling seems to have plateaued in the last three quarters. The stock of stalled projects has come down to about 7 per cent of GDP at the end of the third quarter of 201415 from 8.3 per cent the previous year,” the survey observed.

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Overall, the survey has laid a track for the government towards forming bold economic policies highlighting the grey areas.

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Despite having a favourable demographic profile, labour and skill shortage continues to be one of the key concerns for the Indian industry. Suggesting a step towards mitigating this crucial area, the survey adds, ‘Skilling India’ is no less important and deserves an equal attention as the other important goal of ‘Make in India’.

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As lean manufacturing solutions are gaining momentum, industrial manufacturing robots are in huge demand. For manufacturing sector, industrial robots provide speed, reliability and efficiency that help stay competitive through increased productivity and reduced costs.

Off late, the manufacturing sector in India, which is in dire need of transformation, is increasingly embracing robotics. Apart from increasing productivity, implementation of robotics in the manufacturing process will create job opportunities for skilled labour. Also, it will open up opportunities to set up robotics manufacturing indigenously in future thereby higher job opportunities. This time, we have discussed on this aspect.

The issue has also discussed on the key topics like “The future of welding” and “Material handling for efficient manufacturing”. Hope you’ll enjoy reading this issue as always.

Please do send me your comments at editor@oemupdate.com

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Quick update

ZF opens new plant in Pune The German auto parts company ZF Friedrichshafen AG has set us a new plant in Chakan near Pune with a total investment worth nearly ` 150 crore.

At the ZF Plant inauguration

“This new plant is an important investment in the centennial year of ZF Group”, said Wilhelm Rehm, Board Member of ZF Friedrichshafen AG and Global Head of material management.

“The new facility in India reinforces ZF’s role as a global player and its commitment of expanding in a growth region like India.”

“Over the years, ZF has been successful in localising high technology products in India. Now we will focus on the ‘Make-in-India’ theme and source quality products for its global portfolio,” he added.

Commenting on the development Rudi von Meister, ZF’s President of Asia-Pacific, said, “This multi-product facility will house our Car Powertrain Technology and Commercial Vehicle Technology divisions as well as ZF Services under the same roof. The synergies from this consolidation will

enable us to improve efficiencies and help us provide a compelling value proposition to our customers.”

Today, Asia-Pacific is the most important market for ZF after Europe and North America. After China, India is the secondlargest market in the region and caters to various industry segments like automotive, off-highway, windpower and marine.

Piyush Munot, India Managing Director said, “ZF established its presence in Pune in 2010 by introducing high performance transmissions, followed by chassis components both for commercial vehicles and passenger cars. Today we enhance this product portfolio by launching passenger car clutch systems.

These are specially designed to meet the demanding driving conditions in India. Our strategy will focus on not only bringing advanced technology to India, but in the future to develop products in India for India.”

ZF has been operating for more than three decades in the Indian market. Currently, ZF’s presence in India consists of eight plants spread across Pune, Pantnagar, Gurgaon, Chennai, Coimbatore and Madurai, and roughly 3 000 employees. The new facility will have approximately 200 employees. It will also be home to the headquarters of the after-market sales and services, engineering and administration of ZF India Pvt. Ltd. n

NCR opens new manufacturing facility near Chennai NCR Corporation, the global player in consumer transaction technologies, inaugurated its state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Chengalpet, near Chennai.

Navroze Dastur inaugurating NCR’s manufacturing facility near Chennai

The new facility at the Mahindra World City is built over a 117,079 sq. ft. area, with a single roof design structure that allows NCR to introduce innovative technologies faster to the market and expand to new growth industries like retail and hospitality.

“India’s strategic strengths in advanced manufacturing and the enormous talent pool will drive the success of NCR’s new facility and meet the rising demand for unique and customised solutions to address challenges faced by financial institutions,” said Robert Visintainer, Vice President, NCR Global Manufacturing. “This investment in a world-class manufacturing facility further reinforces NCR’s commitment to the Indian market.”

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“This new facility will further strengthen our leadership position in India as we get closer to our customers and respond faster to the demands of the market,” said Navroze Dastur, Managing Director, NCR India.

“We will continue to manufacture financial solutions such as ATMs, and also aim to expand to manufacture innovative consumer transaction technologies for new growth industries; while contributing to exports.”

The new facility will participate in ‘lean’ manufacturing practices and comply with NCR global standards related to Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS), and quality.

In addition, NCR has filed for the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Silver certification for building sustainability and Tier 1 certification on Resilient IT Infrastructure.

John Fleming, Principal Commercial Officer, American Consulate General, Chennai was present as the Chief Guest at the opening ceremony.

NCR Corporation is one of the global leaders in consumer transaction technologies, turning everyday interactions with businesses into exceptional experiences. n March 2015 n OEM Update

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OMRON displays prowess in industrial automation at SPS Automation India OMRON Automation India displayed its prowess in the industrial automation technology domain at the SPS Automation India 2015 at Gandhinagar.

Omron’s stall at the SPS Show 2015 Ahemdabad

The exhibition, in its 1st edition, focused on all key innovative technologies across the realm of industry automation solutions that have the ability to reshape the manufacturing sector envisioned on the basis of the government’s “Make in India” campaign.

Commenting on the participation, Sameer Gandhi, Managing Director, OMRON Automation India said, “Shows like SPS Automation India 2015 allow us to portray our strengths as complete automation partners and help in strengthening our reach and connect with key audiences - both industry and region specific. This participation is also a part of our efforts to accentuate OMRON’s presence in the Gujarat market.”

The OMRON booth exhibited the utility of all of its key offerings such as automation solutions for bottling machines, vision and safety solutions and the Sysmacintegrated automation solutions that help crucial operations in manufacturing organisations especially in the packaging domain.

Headquartered in Kyoto, Japan, OMRON Corporation is a multi-billion-dollar, diversified company operating in industrial automation, electronic components, social systems, healthcare, and environment fields. Established in 1933, today it is one of the global leaders in the field of automation with around 36,000 employees in over 35 countries. The company has regional head offices in Singapore (Asia Pacific), Beijing (Greater China), Amsterdam (Europe, Africa, and the Middle East), Chicago (North America), Gurgaon (India), and Sao Paulo (Latin America).

Incepted in 1993, OMRON Automation India caters to over eight industrial segment namely packaging, automotive, material handling, solar, food and beverages, textile and panel handling applications. The product portfolio includes industrial components, automation systems, sensing and safety, motion and drives, and software. n

Eaton displays data centre solutions on Technology Day Power management company Eaton hosted a Technology Day in Bengaluru for the data centre segment. The Technology Day showcased Eaton’s industry leading offerings that help in designing flexible and holistic data centres, increasing efficiency without sacrificing uptime and ensuring faster time-to-market.

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The Technology Day in Bengaluru is part of a global Eaton initiative that leverages these events to reach out to customers, influencers and end-users to enable effective market interactions across major regions and key industry segments.

“Bengaluru is an important market for Eaton. This is the second Eaton Technology Day in the last six months in Bengaluru and this time we have hosted it exclusively for the data centre segment, which is a focused segment for Eaton,” said Nitin Chalke, Managing Director – India,

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Eaton. “We have been partnering with several leading players in this segment by providing solutions that help them build an agile and scalable infrastructure; drive real business benefits by ensuring optimum efficiency and low cost throughout the complete lifecycle of the data centre.”

Eaton products are manufactured to meet the highest standards of efficiency, reliability and safety. The Bengaluru Technology Day showcased Eaton’s complete electrical business portfolio, which help address rising demands of the data centre industry.

At the Technology Day, Eaton showcased its robust range of uninterruptible power systems such as Power Xpert 9395 UPS with hot sync paralleling technology, which contributes to outstanding savings and unmatched green efficiency, and the 93PM UPS with advanced energy saving system technology that enables more than 99 per cent energy efficiency. Also showcased were 93E UPS, 9PX PDUs, fire alarm panels and detectors, HT fuses, circuit breakers, push buttons, circuit breakers, MCB and contactors that support the constantly evolving data centre segment. n March 2015 n OEM Update

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Tata unit, RUAG in pact to supply components to Airbus Tata unit TAL Manufacturing Solutions Ltd. and RUAG Aerostructures entered into partnership for manufacturing and supply of aero structural components and sub-assemblies.

The two companies signed a multiyear contract with a potential value of over $ 150 million. The new work scope allows RUAG to strengthen and optimise the global supply chain to the advantage of Airbus.

(L to R: Rajesh Khatri, ED and CEO, TAL and Alfons Kaspar, VP Supply Chain and Logistics, RUAG Aerostructures)

in Aerostructures,” Urs Breitmeier, CEO of RUAG Group said.

Rajesh Khatri, ED and CEO of TAL said, “This contract will see us investing further in our state-of-the-art aerospace infrastructure at Nagpur and will uniquely position us as a supplier to two of the world’s most advanced and successful airplane programmes, the Boeing 787 Dreamliner and the Airbus A320.”

As part of the contract, TAL will manufacture and supply over 550 sheet metal components, machined parts and subassemblies to RUAG, for Airbus’ fast moving, successful A320 programme. Going into two fuselage sections of the Airbus A320, these parts are processed from steel, aluminium and titanium and involve use of some of the most sophisticated and futuristic equipment in aerospace manufacturing.

TAL Manufacturing Solutions Ltd. is the wholly-owned subsidiary of Tata Motors Ltd. The company provides manufacturing solutions across wide range of industries in India and abroad. TAL’s offerings are delivered through Aerospace Business Unit at Nagpur with a focus on manufacture of precision components, assemblies and tooling for aero-structures, aero-engines and GSE. Its industrial Business Unit based at Pune with its key products as robotics and automation solutions, machine tools; tooling, material handling solutions and fluid power systems.

“It (the partnership with TAL) reflects our strategy to go global in the supply chain and enables RUAG to strengthen its position as a leading first-tier supplier

RUAG Aerostructures, located in Germany and Switzerland, is a global supplier and integrator of components for civil and military aerospace applications. n

Commodity management goes smart Eka Software Solutions, the provider of smart commodity management software solutions, announced the availability of InSight CM - SMART Cubes.

Fully integrated with Eka’s next-generation commodity trading and risk management software platform InSight CM, SMART Cubes provides more than 80 pre-configured ETRM and CTRM commodity intelligence cubes that deliver rich analytics and advanced data visualisation for agriculture, manufacturing, energy, and metals companies.

SMART Cubes is a comprehensive set of preconfigured and customizable business intelligence tools covering the entire value chain, from origin trade straight through to settlement. With SMART Cubes, commodity companies can make faster, better-informed decisions when managing trading, positions, risk, P&L, inventory, costs, and logistics.

Business users create the analytics they need without relying on other departments, such as IT, or outside vendors.

“Utilizing our extensive industry knowledge of the commodity markets, Eka has created a comprehensive range of pre-configured cubes, providing our customers with the analytics needed to make the best decisions,” said Shobhit Mathur, Vice President Product Management at Eka. “In addition, users can customise these cubes on their own.

SMART Cubes leverages a variety of visualisation techniques to provide previously unavailable analytical capability.”

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With SMART Cubes, users can link multiple sets of data for analysis. By joining different sets of data, commodity companies can perform previously impossible crossdimensional analysis to improve decision making. This allows users to move beyond static reports that only describe what happened to answer the more profound questions: what events led to certain results, plus why and how did these events occur.

The InSight CM platform comprises best-in-class, industryspecialised solutions for the agriculture, manufacturing, energy, and metals industries. In addition to advanced analytics and commodity intelligence provided by SMART Cubes, InSight CM supports the entire commodity transaction lifecycle including trading, risk, compliance, procurement, supply chain, operations, logistics, bulk handling, and processing.

Eka is one of the leading companies in providing Smart Commodity Management software solutions. Eka’s analyticsdriven, end-to-end Commodity Management platform enables companies to efficiently and profitably meet the challenges of complex and volatile markets.

The company’s solutions manage commodity trading, enterprise risk, compliance, procurement, supply chain, operations, logistics, bulk handling, processing, and decision support. n March 2015 n OEM Update

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KBL launches “i-NS” pump series Kirloskar Brothers Ltd. (KBL) has announced the launch of “i-NS” pump which has been developed entirely with domestic technology.

i-NS Pump

KBL’s “i-NS” pump is an innovative non-clog sewage submersible pump designed for customer by taking into consideration the end-user’s views. The compact size of the pump helps in minimising submergence, and it comes with an aesthetically-improved design for maintenance-free work.

KBL’s “i-NS” pump’s stationary installation arrangement is simplified with single guide pipe system. It introduces the innovative modular concept for interchangeability of components. Its cable bracket design for wrapping the cable around the body helps in avoiding cable damage, and its potting cup design helps in restricting the entry of water inside the pump. Its integrated design also eliminates most of the potential leakage and short circuit issues typically faced by the end-users in the water &

wastewater treatment industries, sewage, building and construction and other allied segments.

Speaking at the “i-NS” pump series launch, Sanjay Kirloskar, Chairman & Managing Director, Kirloskar Brothers Limited, said, “The indigenous development of technologically-advanced i–NS has been an enriching experience for the entire KBL team. The development of ‘i-NS’ series of pumps has also helped us get another step closer to the ‘Make in India’ initiative.”

The “i-NS” pump is packed with innovative features that make it ideal for use.Its integrated design for major components (stator housing / upper bearing holder, mechanical seal housing / lower bearing holder and motor end cover / cable gland) reduces the total number of parts and minimises the fasteners. This integrated design product has 13 models, 49 hydraulics and 206 frames.

KBL is the flagship company of the $ 2.1 billion Kirloskar group. KBL is a global fluid management solutions provider of centrifugal pumps and valves. The core businesses of KBL are large infrastructure projects (water supply, power plants, and irrigation), project and engineered pumps, industrial pumps, agriculture and domestic pumps, valves, motors and hydro turbines. n

DMG MORI open house displays innovation

Aerospace Excellence Center in Pfronten: High precision machining centres such as the DMC 125 FD duoBLOCK are used to process inter alia complex components for the aerospace industry.

This picture shows a part of a turbine for a passenger aircraft.

With order intake of € 177.1 million and 688 products sold – including major orders from the USA (€ +11.7 million), from China (€ +10.4 million) and Japan (€ +4.9 million) – DMG MORI takes positive stock of the in-house exhibition in Pfronten this year (previous year: € 167.6 million). This industry-highlight was held for the 20th time at DECKEL MAHO and is the traditional kick-off for the new financial year.

Other focus points included system solutions for the automotive and aerospace industry, as well as for line production. With its additive manufacturing machine LASERTEC 65 3D, DMG MORI presented an innovative combination of additive and cutting machining. n

Between 3rd and 7th February, DMG MORI registered a record number of 8,797 international trade visitors in Pfronten. Out of this, about 59 per cent was contributed by its international customers and potential customers. “Their main interest fell on innovations, trend-setting products and particularly on CELOS,” the company said.

With its apps, CELOS control technology simplifies the process from the idea to the finished product. Four new CELOS apps and a CELOS PC version were presented for the first time. In total, 76 high-tech exhibits were

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presented over the 5,800 sq.m. floor area, including four world premieres.

The main interest of the trade visitors fell on innovations, trendsetting products and particularly on CELOS. With its apps, CELOS control technology simplifies the process from the idea to the finished product.

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Industry Report

Machine tools industry in India to scale to $ 3-4 bn by 2020 With customer requirements becoming more stringent, the machine tool industry needs to evolve to meet the customer expectations improvements it adds.

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Commenting on the findings of the study Ramesh Suri, President, ACMA, said, “The automotive industry accounts for over fifty per cent of machine tool end use. With customer requirements becoming more stringent, the machine tool industry needs to evolve to meet the customer expectations.

To embark on the next phase of growth, the industry will have to look beyond the current advantages it enjoys in terms of cost and after-sales. Learning from success stories of foreign players and upgrading capability and processes to best-in-class will be crucial for realisation of the Machine tool industry’s Vision 2020.”

Over the next 5 years, the entire Indian automotive industry across vehicle and component segments is expected to witness robust growth. “The growth in the automotive sector will propel the machine tool consumption in India to grow from $ 1.3 billion in FY14 to $ 3 billion by FY20 at 14 per cent CAGR,” noted a joint study recently conducted by ACMA, IMTMA and Roland Berger Strategy Consultants.

The study titled ‘Enabling Indian auto component industry competitiveness: role of Indian machine tool industry’ was conceptualised identifying the roadblocks faced by machine tool industry and suggest a way forward for the segment. It undertook a detailed survey with sixty ACMA-members (across tier one to three) and more than twenty IMTMA-members.

The growth rate for Indian machine tool suppliers can potentially be higher as import substitution is high on agenda of the automotive industry due to the adverse impact of fluctuation in exchange rates, the findings of the study said.

While the machine tool industry is becoming increasingly competitive, customer requirements are also becoming stringent with regards to reliability, productivity and cost.

Competition is intensifying from foreign players who have certain advantages in terms of technology, workmanship, quality, robustness, delivery commitment, etc.

“While the domestic machine tools manufacturers have certain advantages in terms of cost and after-sales; technology development will be critical to meet customer requirements, fend off competition and substitute high imports,” the study revealed.

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Concurring on the need for the machine tool industry to move up the value chain, L Krishnan, President, IMTMA commented, “The domestic machine tool manufacturers provide significant capital cost advantage over imported tools. Over the years, the Indian machine tools have improved in technology and are well positioned for medium accuracy requirements, however to be globally competitive, areas such as reliability, solution engineering, new or improved technology and products and delivery commitment or CRM need to be focused upon.”

The study findings suggest recommendations for a 5-year improvement roadmap. These have been prioritised as immediate, near-term and long-term: Immediate measures (to be rolled out within the next 1 year) • Improve machine performance and reliability through better machine maintenance practices and implementation of safety standards • Build confidence in ACMA companies that use Indian machine tools • Offer low cost automation solutions or frugal machines for standard tasks to ACMA companies • Organise knowledge seminars on topics such as machine tool technology, reliability improvement, application engineering topics, etc.

Near-term initiatives (to be rolled out within 1-3 years) • Improve reliability of peripherals • Drive project management excellence program • Adopt standards for data collection and acquisition • Conduct detailed machine performance benchmarking • Develop Special Purpose Machines (SPM).

Long-term plans (to be phased over 3-5 years) • Joint cooperative development of new machines – involve ACMA companies and auto OEMs • Develop “solution” based approach in IMTMA. n March 2015 n OEM Update

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Make in India: Placing ‘Industry 4.0’ in Context

With an increasingly globalised manufacturing environment, it is expected that Industry 4.0 must form a key part of the intellectual debate driving the “Make in India” initiative

The Indian manufacturing landscape contributes around 16 per cent of India’s GDP each year and less than 2 per cent of the overall global manufacturing output.

Furthermore, this sector employs around 58-60 million people which is just about 12 per cent of the overall working populace. With nearly 250 million people set to enter the workforce in the next 15 years, the Indian manufacturing scene is expected to undergo a massive revamp in terms of investment, infrastructure, and technology. Taking stock of the issue at hand, the Indian Government embarked on a strategic initiative to resurrect the declining manufacturing industry in the country.

Under the new “Make in India” initiative, the government has laid out new policy initiatives that aspire to expand the economy’s manufacturing footprint comprehensively. This includes focus on an extensive list of discrete industries for growth in the coming years. Some of the strategic goals of this new program include enhancing job opportunities, minimising imports, expanding exports and last, but not the least, creating a conducive environment for technological evolution.

However, Frost & Sullivan study reveals, if companies and value-chain participants appreciate the benefits of ‘Industry 4.0’ and adapt to the changes, then radical transformations in the competitive landscape can be expected. Industry 4.0 is a platform that enables the unification of information amongst participants in the entire value chain – from product inception to design, manufacturing, services, and even refurbishment.

Suppliers would have to reinvent their processes and other capabilities in order to sustain in the rapidly evolving market. There will be new and unorthodox companies with radically new business models making a foray into the industrial space.

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This revolution would transform the manufacturing processes in sync with the speed of change in customer needs – which implies, making the production process flexible without taking excess time. The four functional pillars or the enablers of Industry 4.0 will be Big Data, Internet of Things, Internet of Services, and Integrated Industries which will converge into three main aspects, namely, Technology, Collaboration, and Processes. These three subsets effectively bring about various aspects of Industry 4.0, providing a basic framework to map suppliers, Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), and production houses across these disparate functional facets.

Traditional industry boundaries are rapidly blurring owing to the nature of applications that may sprout up during the course of Industry 4.0. In such a cy­ ber-physical world, the traditional suppliers may lose prominence and eventually move down as tier 2 companies. Unexpectedly, sensor manufacturers, ICT players, and even banking and financial institutions are poised to make their presence felt in the age of Industry 4.0. However, shrewd and tactical collaborations may allow the traditional industrial players to sustain and possibly offer cradle-to-grave solutions. This will be a utopian view with product offerings becoming a vital part of a larger eco system.

Muthukumar Viswanathan, Practice Director - Industrial Automation & Process Control and Measurement & Instrumentation, Frost & Sullivan notes, “Industry 4.0 is unique as for the first time in contemporary industrial history we have pre-conceived an industrial revolution.

While it is interesting to note that the tenure of each revolution has been diminishing, it is more important for us to acknowledge the fact that the fourth version is likely to unravel much faster when compared to the previous ones.” n March 2015 n OEM Update

Cover story

Can robotics create manufacturing jobs?

While robotics in manufacturing is not an utopian concept otherwise conceptualised, they are all about productivity and what they could to manufacturing

The growth story of the country in the last decade has been a one of both success stories and bumpy rides. It would be surprising to learn that in a country like India where the availability of manpower and labour are in abundance, robotics could find itself to become a lucrative industry. Industry experts suggest that robotics will continue to flourish in the manufacturing areas, especially in automation where it will be used to perform tasks that require less skill.

When computers came, they basically called for a new skill set. Robotics too like computers will drive the industry and will call for an augmentation of skills or a creation of new skill-set for workers. Although, human capital plays an important role, jobs that attribute to unskilled labour or requiring relatively less skill will be done by robotics.

Even though human capital is indispensible it does not go without saying that jobs that are heavily mechanised could involve robotics. Advances in technology coupled with integrated technology will give rise to development of robotics. As the demand for technology in various sectors increases, robotics will have a key role to play.

While robotics in manufacturing is not an utopian concept otherwise conceptualised, they are all about productivity and what they could to manufacturing.

Market trends in manufacturing As there are improvements in the market and as manufacturing activities are set to rise, robotics will play a crucial role in automation. Market trends suggest that robotics will continue to play a crucial role in automation.

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to play as manufacturers will see value in investing and deploying robots as their initial cost is offset within a few months of deployment.

While market trends are usually shaped by several factors, it is necessary to understand that in manufacturing sometimes new technologies work well and are adopted by the industry when they result in increase in productivity and growth of economy.

Role of robotics in creating jobs Rajesh Nath, Managing Director, German Engineering Federation (VDMA) India Office has some interesting points to share. Speaking on the role of robotics in the manufacturing industry he tells that most of the manufacturing companies in India already have their in-

More engineers are required for the robotic-based solutions as robot-based solution will require hardware and software applications which have to be manufactured and programmed.

Raj Singh Rathee, MD, KUKA Robotics India

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Robotics and automation are reaching a new dimension with manmachine cooperation.

Rajesh Nath, Managing Director, German Engineering Federation (VDMA) India house training facilities to train their workforce to be tech savvy with industrial machines. This is a trend set especially by MNC’s where technically skilled workforce are trained from the beginning to accelerate growth for the industry.

Speaking of the engineering colleges, Mr. Nath says that with ‘Mechatronics’ becoming an integral part of the curriculum in engineering courses, it has become mandatory for colleges to give students a hands-on training with machines. So, by the time that they graduate they are well accustomed to use them. “This training has helped the manufacturing sector as it has made the students more job-ready and increased the availability of skilled manpower to the industry,” he adds.

Raj Singh Rathee, Managing Director, KUKA Robotics India Pvt. Ltd. tells us that robots can create manufacturing jobs in India but we need to look at it from different perspectives: One is the direct jobs created by installing robots in manufacturing. Like all other machines even robots need human beings to install, program, and run and maintain them. The second aspect is the use of robots to ensure a consistent and high quality manufacturing.

This increases the business potential of the companies using robots as compared to the ones not using robots.

With an improved market and better business prospects, companies progress and employ more people at various levels. It is to be noted that robots can do work where humans will find it strenuous to work especially in difficult and harsh working environment. This is another indirect way of job creation.

technologies that help to enhance operational excellence of a manufacturing facility. Various shortcomings have led to a rate of technology adoption that has not been uniform. In the current context, with renewed industry confidence and a new, stable government at the centre, the country has manufacturing prospects as the economic growth is expected to get a major boost.

Speaking of the “Make in India” initiative, Mr Rathee, KUKA says that robots can increase the manufacturing capacity but the economics factors of volume and quality will come into play. Therefore, more robots will be required in some cases.

Role of industry in creating jobs through robotics Robotics and automation are reaching a new dimension with man-machine cooperation. Robots are handling work in the place of people whenever or wherever they become monotonous, injurious to health or require no special job skills. This makes workplaces more productive, flexible and ergonomic in nature. “The industry now looks forward to the fourth industrial revolution also termed as Industry 4.0 in Germany wherein manufacturing would be combined with technology leading to a smart factory concept characterised by adaptability, resource efficiency and ergonomics as well as the integration of customers and business partners in business and value processes,” Mr Nath said.

With regards to employment and job creation, Mr Rathee says that KUKA has been preparing engineers towards better employability by working to educate them on robots and robot based technologies for nearly a decade now. Apart from running its own training centre, there are training facilities at various engineering colleges and universities. The engineers have a better job prospect with this knowledge. “More engineers are required for the robotic-based solutions as robot-based solution will require hardware and software applications which have to be manufactured and programmed. This will lead to a creation of jobs,” Mr Rathee concludes. n

Optimism and opportunities from “Make in India” initiative Mr Nath tells us that with the “Make in India” initiative, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has brought the focus of global investors on making India a manufacturing hub.

While manufacturing accounts for only 15 per cent of India’s GDP it witnessed a 0.7 per cent contraction in 2013-14. Thus the Prime Minister’s thrust on the sector is well founded. It is quite evident that relevant policies are likely to be announced to facilitate growth of this sector.

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Evolution in cleaning of powertrain components Both went into the development of the new EcoCFlex 3 which is available in two sizes as a 3M and 3L version.

Custom-designed scara manipulator instead of a modified robot An essential part of equipment is the robot, which is normally a modified standard type. However, despite extensive adaptations, these units cannot always cope with the harsh conditions encountered in cleaning applications, e.g., moisture, high temperatures and use of chemicals. As a result, unscheduled breakdowns and costly repairs occur time and again.

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On the new EcoCFlex 3, one CNC controller for the machine and the integrated scara manipulator replaces the previously required PLC and robot control unit

What strikes the observer first about the new EcoCFlex 3 is Dürr Ecoclean’s proprietary scara manipulator replacing the standard 6-axis jointed-arm robot, as well as the machine’s exceptional design. A view under the hood reveals further details contributing to its superior process reliability, quality, energy efficiency and availability rates in pre-cleaning and final cleaning of powertrain components.

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The EcoCFlex 3 does away with this problem. A scara manipulator developed by Dürr Ecoclean replaces the standard commercial 6-axis jointed-arm robot in this cleaning machine. Purpose-designed for use in a robot cell, this handling system is made entirely of high-strength aluminium and stainless steel. It needs neither paintwork nor a protective suit. Thanks to its IP69 protection rating, Dürr Ecoclean’s scara manipulator is resistant to highpressure water jets and to immersion, in addition to withstanding booth temperatures up to 65°C. The cleaning chemicals employed may range from pH 6 to pH 10 and need no external robot manufacturer’s approval to be used or replaced.

Furthermore, the EcoCFlex 3 overcomes issues associated with the use of different control systems. One joint CNC control unit for the scara manipulator and the cleaning machine replaces the previously required PLC and robot controller. This greatly simplifies and accelerates the programming, operation, maintenance and start-up after a change in parts to be treated. The sensor system for calibrating the scara manipulator is integrated already.

In the pre- and final cleaning of powertrain parts such as cylinder heads, engine blocks and crankcases, robot cells not just improve flexibility. They also allow parts to be cleaned in short cycles, which makes them an indispensable asset in advanced engine and transmission manufacturing lines. With over 400 robot systems built, Dürr Ecoclean of Monschau possesses plenty of experience and has gained extensive customer feedback on optimisation potentials.

Innovative process technology for high quality and short cycles The EcoCFlex 3 also sets new standards in terms of its equipment level and features. A water knife directs the water jet in a focused pattern onto the areas to be cleaned, unlike a conventional round nozzle. Moreover, the machine is fitted with a so-called hybrid nozzle having a variable

In this high-efficiency drier system the vacuum is generated during non-productive times. As a result, very short cycles can be implemented.

Large rear doors provide easy access for maintenance and allow multiple systems to be set up side-by-side.

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Innovation mixing chamber. Thanks to this configuration, both highpressure and low-pressure treatments – in addition to injection flood washing – can be flexibly performed in one cleaning station. All cleaning operations, including highpressure deburring, take place below the bath surface, which helps to reduce the noise level to just 72 dB(A). The idling times needed for part handling in the work chamber are likewise markedly reduced with this new process technology. Thus, in conjunction with the modular vestibule design, it is possible to obtain ‘on-spec’ cleaning results in cycles starting from as little as 30 seconds.

Proven energy savings When it comes to resource efficiency and sustainability, the EcoCFlex 3 excels by an energy consumption of only 30 kWh. Demand can be easily supervised via the optional energy monitoring system. The latter indicates current consumption values – e.g., for electricity, compressed air, cooling water and heating – in real time and stores them in memory. The energy consumption can be logged per cycle, per shift or per hour. User-specific tariff rates of the individual energy media can be easily entered via an input screen. This allows accurate estimates to be made of the cleaning costs per part.

Energy-efficient drying of parts – without compressed air With its reduced footprint of only 32 m², the EcoCFlex again sets a new standard for robot cells. This low floorspace requirement also reflects the fact that no space is ‘wasted’ for drying with compressed air. Instead, drying is

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The scara manipulator was specially developed by Dürr Ecoclean for the harsh conditions prevailing in part cleaning applications. Made entirely of high-strength aluminium and stainless steel, it needs neither paintwork nor a protective suit.

performed in the EcoCDry system, a newly developed highefficiency vacuum drier which uses no upstream compressed air blow-off stage. As a result, the part will cool down only slightly before the vacuum drying step. Thanks not least to this low temperature loss and the complete elimination of compressed air, the EcoCDry needs approx. 65 per cent less energy than a vacuum dryer with upstream air blowing (based on a calculated compressed air consumption of 2 Nm³ per part). The vacuum is generated in the pressure vessel during non-productive times. This results in about 50 per cent shorter cycle times compared to a system with compressed air blowing and vacuum drying. The new EcoCDry vacuum drier can also be retrofitted to existing robot cells. n Contact Dürr Ecoclean GmbH www.durr-ecoclean.com

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Creating a new machining revenue stream!

Colibri’s new Typhoon high-speed spindle easily connects to a standard CNC’s existing spindle, reaches speeds of up to 50,000 RPM, and reduces machining cycle time by up to 80 per cent when working with small diameter tools

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Spindles believes if you already run milling CNC machines with coolant through the spindle with a minimal coolant pressure of 20 bar, your shop can simply and confidently develop a new revenue stream by taking on high-speed machining jobs.

Typhoon is a solo player Unlike any other auxiliary high-speed spindle, the Typhoon’s speed is driven by the force of the CNC’s coolant. So, no other attachments such as compressed air or an external electrical controller are needed.

Colibri’s new Typhoon high-speed spindle easily connects to a standard CNC’s existing spindle, reaches speeds of up to 50,000 RPM, and reduces machining cycle time by up to 80 per cent when working with small diameter tools. “We have the data from tests on a range of applications using different materials that demonstrate the Typhoon’s superb performance,” informed Baruch Books, Deputy CEO and VP Marketing & Sale at Colibri Spindles Ltd.

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The Typhoon’s design and compact size allows it to be stored in the ATC from where it is called by the NC program, as if it were another cutting tool.

As machining professionals are well aware, many semi-finishing and finishing operations require small diameter tools in order to get the precise cuts and surface quality needed. If, in the past, your shop was carrying out these operations on a standard machine, you already know that you could have benefitted from a high-speed machine. “Not only do the small diameter tools used in these operations require high speed, but obviously higher RPM machining drastically cuts cycle time and increases productivity, and in the process yields superior results,” Mr Books adds.

Using the Typhoon high-speed spindle, a shop can actively pursue jobs that need high-speed machining.

“Just a small investment leads to a new avenue through which new kinds of service to existing and new customers can be provided. ROI is seen very quickly,” Mr Books assures.

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Precision is Typhoon’s middle name The Typhoon maintains optimal cutting speed and accurate table feed. Its mechanical integrity accounts for stability during machining – it’s run out is only a few microns, which translates into cutting accuracy.

Productivity, savings and revenue Typhoon protects cutting tools and extends their working life; the coolant used in the process keeps tools cool and clears chips from the table, avoiding broken edges – improved quality results.

Flexibility Typhoon allows being flexible in two major ways. One, it is easy and simple to install and is stored in the ATC as any other tool and allows the flexibility of transferring from one application to another. The other point is it saves buying a new HSM machine that limits you to working with certain application only.

Productivity goes up to 80 per cent, and sometimes even more, since the time once spent on semi-finishing and finishing operations is cut away. A shop can simply take on more work to fill that freed-up time. n For more details on Typhoon, visit www.colibrispindles.com March 2015 n OEM Update

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Machine-to-machine integration on cloud Eurotech, an innovator in M2M technologies, announced the release of Everyware Cloud 3.5, the M2M/IoT integration platform

Everyware Cloud, a machine-to-machine integration platform introduced by Eurotech, simplifies device and data management by connecting distributed devices over secure and reliable cloud services.

Once devices are deployed, the Everyware Cloud allows users to connect, configure and manage devices through the lifecycle, from deployment through maintenance to retirement.

have made an important step forward, and we are excited for the novel things that are coming soon by the next releases.”

Finally, security and reliability have been enhanced by introducing Two-Factors-Authentication and platform Health Monitoring, as Eurotech constantly invests in these fundamental aspects.

Advantages of using EC l Short time to market: Customers reach their goals in a few months l Cost-effective (pay-as-you-go): EC is, by default, made available as a PAAS (Platform-As-A-Service) l Open standard based: For future-proof and investment protection l Flexible deployment: From public cloud, to cloud-in-a-box (Everyware Server) l Device enablement: For effective asset management and asset maintenance l Data enablement: For a near-time understanding of users’ preferences and asset real use, for business intelligence l System enablement: For reliable, scalable, secure and user-friendly platform administration l IoT application enablement: For simple integration with enterprise business software applications.

“We continue to focus and invest in making IoT/M2M projects easier and faster and secure for organizations to deploy,” said Robert Andres, Chief Marketing Officer of Eurotech. “ESF for M2M Gateways and Smart Devices on one side, and Everyware Cloud as an M2M/IoT Integration Platform on the other side, build together the foundation for solid M2M/IoT solutions. With Everyware Cloud 3.5 version we

“The rapid development of the global IoT market will increase the complexity both at the edge of the network and at the cloud platform (M2M/IoT Integration Platform) and we will continue to encapsulate and manage this complexity for our customers to ensure efficient development, deployment and management of distributed intelligent devices in the field throughout their lifetime,” Eurotech said. n

With EC 3.5 a set of new features that greatly enrich the remote device management capabilities come into action, like remote device configuration, remote device control, remote device provisioning, and remote device update. These features enable the Everyware Cloud Web Console to be the single point of administration for all connected devices, and make the Everyware Cloud REST APIs the single programmable interface to remote devices.

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Henkel sets its focus on Indian market located at Chennai, Gurgaon, Mumbai, Parwanoo, Pune, Sitarganj and Tarapur with warehouses and offices across the country.

Our strategy to maintain and grow our business in India is on the foundation of our corporate values and achieving our long-term vision.

Jeremy Hunter, President, Henkel Group – India

Henkel Adhesive Technologies India, a subsidiary of Henkel AG & Co. KGaA, Germany, inaugurated the Henkel Flexible Packaging Academy in Mumbai. On the sidelines of the inaugural event, Jeremy Hunter speaks to Subhajit Roy and highlights the company’s commitments to the Indian market.

Globally, Henkel is one of the leading players in adhesives. Could you explain about your Indian business as far as adhesives are concerned?

Henkel is the world market leader in the adhesive technologies business providing tailor-made solutions worldwide with adhesives, sealants and functional coatings. The adhesive products in India provide solutions for a whole spectrum from manufacturing anaerobic adhesives, cyanoacrylate adhesives, silicone sealants, polymer composites, solvent based, solvent free to cold seal laminating. These are used in diverse segments ranging from electronics, automotive, aerospace, packaging to biomedical industries. Well-known brands in India include Loctite, Technomelt, Teroson, Bonderite and Aquence.

How much have you invested in India until now? Do you have new investment plans?

Henkel has grown in India through acquisitions and partnerships. We have invested in manufacturing facilities

Ralf Grauel, Global Head, Flexible Packaging Adhesives, Henkel inaugurating the flexible packaging academy in Mumbai

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India has been a focus market and our commitment to R&D and technology leadership resulted in investments in Henkel India Innovation Centre, Pune and Flexible Packaging Academy, Mumbai in recent past.

Are there any expansion plans in terms of manufacturing facilities for adhesives?

We look at India with a long-term perspective as it is a high potential market for us and hence we are always open to expanding our infrastructure and facilities here.

Expansion plans would continue to be driven by demand, growth potential and existing capacity utilisation factors.

How does Henkel Adhesives plan to maintain its position in India?

Our strategy to maintain and grow our business in India is on the foundation of our corporate values and achieving our long-term vision for Henkel: to become a global leader in brands and technologies.

In order to steer the focus of the entire organisation toward our strategy and ensure its successful implementation, we have defined four strategic priorities: We will ‘outperform’ our competition as a ‘globalised’ company with ‘simplified’ operations and a highly ‘inspired’ team. n Henkel opens flexible packaging academy in Mumbai Henkel Adhesive Technologies India inaugurated the Henkel Flexible Packaging Academy in Mumbai. The academy will be the first of its kind in India, Middle East and Africa (IMEA) offering certified training program for the flexible packaging industry professionals in association with Indian Institute of Packaging (IIP).

This state-of-the-art academy will provide formal training on lamination technology to entrepreneurs, production managers, supervisors, operators, quality control professionals of the flexible packaging industry. The training, which is based on the principle of ‘Learning by Doing’; combines essential theoretical knowledge and hands-on practical training. The modules are designed to cover all aspects of flexible packaging lamination techniques through practical experience on commercial scale lamination machine. Methods of producing healthy laminates and troubleshooting will be the key highlights of the training.

At the inaugural ceremony, Ralf Grauel, Global Head, Flexible Packaging Adhesives, Henkel said, “With the dynamic packaging trends in different segments like FMCG, F&B and pharma, there is a growing demand for advanced packaging solutions. The conventional materials have been replaced with flexible packaging materials. Addressing these demands, we have introduced Henkel Flexible Packaging Academy to enable manufacturers to fulfil the demands of the growing industry.”

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Fainger LESER rechristened as LESER India LESER booth at Chemtech exhibition The new product, Type API 526 IC, was presented at Chemtech exhibition in Mumbai with a ribbon cutting ceremony at the LESER India booth.

More than 500 customers visited our stall at the exhibition.

In addition to the exhibition, LESER India invited customers to a “Rebranding Launch” to celebrate the name change. Chairmen Joachim Klaus, LESER India CEO Neeraj Mangal and General Manager Sales and Marketing Praveen Kulkarni explained the successful development of LESER in India, the background of the name change and future plans of LESER.

After almost 27 years in India, and since 2010, as a 100 per cent subsidiary of LESER GmbH & Co. KG and the recent progress in the development and expansion of the Fainger LESER factory, it was time for an update of the name too: Since January 28, “Fainger LESER” is “LESER India”. “LESER is a progressing safety valve company for a progressing country with German technology made for India,” said Neeraj Mangal, CEO of LESER India.

LESER India as a subsidiary has been quite successful on the Indian market in the past 27 years: more than 180,000 safety valves have been installed in India and LESER has important pre- qualifications from leading companies such as EIL, ONGC and BPCL. The expansion of the product portfolio manufactured in India underlines this futureoriented approach.

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German technology for Indian market LESER, Europe’s biggest safety valve manufacturer, brings a safety valve to India that represents the most advanced design and technology. It has been adapted to the requirements of the Indian oil and gas and petrochemical customers. The country configuration is available from local production with short lead time.

The LESER product group API (Type 526) contains flanged safety valves that meet all the requirements of API 526 such as standardized orifices and center-to-face dimensions. Their robust construction makes them especially suitable for high pressures.

Type 526 Series safety valves present the safe solution for heavy duty applications, such as crude oil extraction, transportation and processing. n

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Material handling for efficient manufacturing A detailed analysis on the role of material handling equipment in increasing productivity for a manufacturing facility

MHE are being increasingly used in industries such as mechanical, automotive, engineering, oil and gas, petrochemical, glass, paper, aerospace and so on

Dayanidhi Anand, Country Head, STAHL CraneSystems Stahl Crane Systems

Material handling and manufacturing go together Material handling refers to handling system of products; at various stages of manufacturing, through lifting, moving, and setting it down in the safest possible ways while controlling the cost of such system for overall process. Manufacturing and material handling are both complimentary to each other. No manufacturing facility or warehouse is complete without material handling equipment (MHE). MHE also play important role in large warehouses where they are used to carry heavy loads.

Increasingly, MHE are having wide applications in a number of industries and verticals that involve lifting of materials and shipments that weigh heavy.

manufacturing and post manufacturing. This is important in a world where every second counts.

Material handling has always played an important role in manufacturing and is rather an integral part of manufacturing. To shift focus, it is also interesting to learn that small MHE are playing important role while shipping large or heavy parcels ordered online on E-commerce portals. There is an increasing focus on design, a new trend observed in the market. MHE today are focusing on design even as they evolve to fulfil new demands from industry. There is also a great focus today on automated or computer controlled material handling tools. Material handling tools are also increasingly becoming application focussed. With increasing R&D being done on material handling, a lot of development is taking place in the field.

A trend of custom made or personalised technology has led to the development of custom made MHE that allows users from specific industry or verticals to use them.

Advancements in material handling “Over the years, material handling has had various advancements through developments in technology and

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MHE are efficient enough to help workers in large manufacturing facilities. Let us look at some important aspects of material handling in manufacturing: • Reduce cycle time of manufacturing • Improve safe working condition • Reduce effort and stress during process • Build a reliable environment for production • Efficiently use equipment, people, space and energy at increased convenience, safety and comfort for working teams.

With the fast growth of manufacturing units across the country, the demand for material handling and equipment is directly driven through requirements at project sites.

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Industry analysis on the research front; developments in design have contributed to MHE being used in more specialised applications across industries.

MHE are being increasingly used in industries such as mechanical, automotive, engineering, oil and gas, petrochemical, glass, paper, aerospace and so on,” says Dayanidhi Anand, Country Head, STAHL CraneSystems.

MHE can be segmented, depending on the various stages of production in which the equipments become involved. These include the following: • Transportation of material to the plant, inside or outside of the plant • Positioning of material at work stations during manufacturing • Unit load formation, to increase speed of handling • Storage of materials post production.

MHE in driving efficiency In the last several years material handling has become a new, complex, and rapidly evolving science. For moving material in and out of a warehouse many types of equipment and system are in use, depending on the type of products and volume that are handled.

The efficiency of MHE adds to the performance level.

“With the fast growth of manufacturing units across the country, the demand for material handling and equipment is directly driven through requirements at project sites,” observes Tushar Mehendale, Managing Director, ElectroMech Material Handling Systems. The demand for material handling is also indirectly driven through growth in allied industries such as cement, steel and others.

Power projects are a key demand generator for both material handling as well as construction equipment. For the power sector, MHE is required both at the project execution stage as well as to be installed in the power plant itself for various applications.

Products and solutions ElectroMech has a wide product range, designed to suit its customer applications, working environment and usage cycles.

“ElectroMech offers precise material handling solutions for wideranging applications in manufacturing plants and infrastructure projects,” Mr Mehendale said. His company’s product portfolio includes electric wire rope hoists, single girder and double girder electric overhead travelling (EOT) cranes, gantry and semigantry cranes, jib cranes, wall travelling cranes, goliath cranes, underslung cranes, as well as special purpose cranes such as stacker cranes and tunnel mucking systems. ElectroMech cranes and hoists are supplied to diverse industries including automobile, construction, general engineering, heavy engineering, oil and gas, power, railways, shipbuilding and steel.

Speaking of quality compliance followed by ElectroMech, Mr Mehendale says, “Each of ElectroMech’s cranes undergoes design validation to make sure the right motors; gearboxes and electrical components for the application are selected. To improve the energy efficiency of the entire transmission system in the cranes and make the overall product less energy-consuming, ElectroMech uses geared motors for most of its cranes instead of the traditional motor, gearbox and coupling combinations.”

VFD drives installed in ElectroMech’s cranes give an added feature of micro speeds. This, he says, negates the need for repeated starts on a motor when precise control is needed in an operation.

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STAHL has developed very sophisticated and intelligent hoist system series, SCF series of chain hoist, launched globally last year. It is a one of its kind of hoist unit which is a combination of multiple features and options, not available as a package until now in the market. This includes the following: an inbuilt frequency drive, extended speed range, soft starts and acceleration, complete aluminium body, easy to access controls, several of sensing systems for monitoring that have advanced sensing including features position sensor, slack rope monitoring, break-monitoring, over-temperature detection, over-load cut-off, vibration and shock load damping system, integrated load spectrum memory and operating hours counter.”

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BITZER: inching towards growth BITZER, one of the largest compressor manufacturers globally, is gradually strengthening its foothold in Indian market. In an exclusive interview with Subhajit Roy, Rob De Bruyn, Managing Director, BITZER Refrigeration Asia Pte Ltd.; and John Ritmann, Director – Ammonia System Engineering, BITZER Kühlmaschinenbau GmbH talk on the company’s business activities in India and future growth plans.

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India is one of the fastest growing economies in the world. How is the current state of doing business here?

Rob De Bruyn: Doing business in India is very different from doing business in Europe, China or US. We need to keep an open mind of how we can adapt to different functions and situations of our products to introduce in the Indian market. A recent good example is India launched the space rocket to Mars with 10 per cent of the cost it required to do it in the US. So from our perspective, adaptation and innovation are something that the Indians do very well. We need to understand how we can adapt to the Indian market while maintaining our standards as the most successful private company in Europe.

John Ritmann: We have our development department in Denmark with 6 engineers and we are making the global designs for industrial integration for BITZER. We have started off with a test unit in Germany where we made a full scale test with 3 compressors and a complete range where we can do 1.3, 1.4 MW with 78 kg of ammonia. It is some of the ideas we have to stride for lesser and lesser amounts of ammonia in the plants. It is just a showcase of thinking out of the box which opens possibilities of really drive the charts to minimum level. We feel there are possibilities if you think outside the box to develop systems which can have much more compact and lower charts of ammonia.

Rob, could you brief us on your recent initiatives in ammonia-based compressors technology?

Rob: We have built a test unit in Germany where we have made the additional design. We have built our first ammonia factory in Schkeuditz, Atlanta in USA. At the same time we have introduced this system in Brazil.

There a lot of ammonia plants coming up and they have a tradition of using ammonia so there was a huge interest.

We have been monitoring the success of what we are doing.

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How do look at the demand scenario in India?

Rob: The demand is substantially high in India as compared to other countries. However it is going to be an open minded view how we bring in the technology and adapt according to the situations. We would like to get the most efficient operating system at all conditions no matter whether it is in Denmark or in India. Here, the situation is high condensing.

We need to be able to adapt to any situation of part load of ambient temperature and control minimum generation of electricity from the plants.

Over the years, Ammonia has been proven as an efficient refrigerant. How efficient it is in terms of performance and power consumption?

John: Ammonia is efficient in terms of part load. For instance if we use 2-3 compressors, the first one will work with greater speed drive and take care of the part loading and shifting in and out of compressor 1 or 2. So we are always running with greater speed drive or we put compressor into 100 per cent and try to maintain the maximum COP of the system all over the operating area.

This gives a lot of advantage not only for COP but also for redundancy. No matter if you have a one compressor failure – we can simply isolate it and operate the other compressors which would still function in an optimum way. No matter the demands we are having outside we will always be giving the best respond to COP. This is gaining fellow perspective in the future of energy.

Rob: We get wind and solar energy through windows but we cannot control the sun or the wind. We would be forced

Though we do not have a huge footprint here (in India), it is growing by around 23 per cent per annum.

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to adapt the capacity according to the source of energy.

At BITZER, we are putting ourselves in a situation that all the controls of our systems will guarantee maximum performance in any situation. This is the idea that we are looking into. We want to see the constraints to make sure we provide solutions in warmer regions.

But there is a clear shift. The industry is moving towards natural gases...

John: For HVAC industry, efficiency is always important.

That has to go hand in hand with the energy consumption because it is related to our environment and there has to be a balance between the two. The industry is moving towards natural gases but we need to create a balance between ammonia and natural gases to get optimum efficiency and save a lot of money. We are trying to achieve that balance which is not easy.

Are you working on some product or technology development keeping the Indian conditions in mind?

Rob: We are trying to bring new refrigeration technology to India and balance it with very high demands during the summers.

Also, in India, it is not easy to get service in tier 3 cities.

How will a machine start to take care if something is going wrong on the maintenance side and how does the equipment limit itself from running that side of the problem? These sort of high-end technologies are available in other markets and will start entering India as the demand grows.

Training and awareness also play key role. What is BITZER’s commitment in these areas?

Rob: Yes, training is a key part for long-term success especially in our business. Ammonia is a highly dangerous substance and we really have to take care while we start utilising ammonia and hydro carbon in new applications – that is the big threat. We have to learn to be cautious when using this.

John: BITZER is the largest private compressor manufacturer in the world now. Training and educations is a very important part. We have opened a new training

No matter the demands we are having outside we will always be giving the best respond to COP.

John Ritmann, Director – Ammonia System Engineering, BITZER Kühlmaschinenbau GmbH

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namely SCHAUFLER Academy close to our major factory at the Rottenburg-Ergenzingen in Germany. This international training centre will cater to us over 1,000 students in the next couple of years. Currently the academy is having training for CO2 systems.

The SCHAUFLER Academy will be the central training location for customers and employees from all over the world. Here we’ll offer the training courses that keep the maintenance teams of our business partners up to date.

Do you have any such plan for India?

Rob: In India we already do the training. We have ‘green point’ service centres in Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Kolkata etc. The purpose of these service centres is to be able to support the product with factory rebuilding. Here we bring back the original factory specifications, guarantee the spare parts as original and bring it back to its proper conditions. A part of this process is education. Interestingly our new green point service centre in Kolkata has been very successful with a number of people walking-in and asking us about the process of repairs or retrofitting. These centres support our customers and at the same time help us to serve the customers better. We do a lot of training here in India and this is important because we see a lot of brand equity BITZER has in India. India has been a very successful market for BITZER. In an aim to educate our customers on product and technology availability, we have set up a Technical Brand Centre in Delhi. This has been a very successful experiment for us because it helps us to understand the local market scenario.

Do you feel that India still a cost-sensitive market?

Rob: India market is gradually maturing and they understand the technology and value for high-end products. World-wide BITZER is known for its high-quality product and no high-quality products can be acquired at lower price. At BITZER, we look at the optimum efficiency throughout the lifecycle of a compressor. Life cycle cost is the most important criteria for us. The initial procurement cost for a BITZER product may be high, but the early return on investment is assured.

What are the major growth drivers for refrigeration equipment in India?

Rob: Thanks to the burgeoning economic activities, the country is witnessing tremendous increase in the number of middle-class population, growing demand of food quality, and demand of quality export. These factors are majorly driving the demand of refrigeration equipment in India.

How did BITZER perform during the past couple of year?

Rob: India is a very important market as far as BITZER is concerned. Its technological support service is excellent.

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Technology

igus tribo-filament for 3D printing Print your own components for moving applications with the new tribo-filaments from igus times more abrasion-resistant than materials that are traditionally used in 3D printers. These special materials are the result of years of research conducted in the igus test lab, where all products are put through their paces, so that service life, coefficients of friction and wear, can be reliably predicted.

Tribo-expert igus offers several components for 3D printers -- from plain bearings and energy supply systems to friction and wearoptimised filaments.

(Source: igus GmbH)

3D printing offers users new ways to print objects with complex designs. This is a good alternative, especially for designers, to manufacture components using the latest low cost technology. igus, the tribo-expert, manufactures suitable linear systems for use in 3D printers, but also the right printing filament. With the iglidur I180-PF, igus now introduces an advanced filament that is easier to process which means that real components for real applications can also be easily manufactured and used immediately.

After the world’s first tribo-filament for 3D printers was premièred at the Hanover Show, igus; specialist for ‘plastics in motion’, now offers its second filament that has been optimised for friction and wear. “iglidur I180-PF, the new material from our 3D filament range, is even easier to process than the iglidur I170-PF material presented at the Hanover Show, because it has a higher elasticity,” says Tom Krause, Product Manager for iglidur tribo-filaments at igus. “It is now already available in 1.75 or 3 millimetre diameter.” The tribo-filaments from igus are up to 50

After the world’s first tribo-filament for 3D printers has been premièred at the Hanover Trade Fair, igus as a specialist for ‘plastics in motion’ now offers its second filament that has been optimised for friction and wear. (Source: igus GmbH)

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Components for 3D printer The filaments, and other ‘motion plastics’ products from igus are also suitable for use in 3D printers for axis. For instance, igus has recently released the low-priced solid plastic bearing drylin RJ4MP. The bearing made of wearresistant igus plastic, iglidur J4, has the dimensions of the so-called compact “Japanese standard”, which has in the meantime established itself as a popular size for linear guides in 3D printers. Like all products of the drylin linear and drive systems, the new solid plastic bearing operates completely dry and without external lubrication and maintenance. This reduces costs due to reduced downtimes through routine lubrication and maintenance.

The complete drylin E systems have already established themselves. They are delivered including a stepper motor in a variety of designs and can be installed immediately.

In addition to plain bearings, lead screws, and linear plain bearings, igus also offers compact energy chains for use in 3D printers. The E2 micro series is available in over 180 different variations. Designed for horizontal, vertical, hanging or standing, circular or lateral movements – the E2 micro can be attached easily to the machine using various mounting bracket options. A chain opener is always included in the delivery for the openable models. n

The new solid plastic bearing drylin RJ4MP is available in special dimensions in the socalled “Japanese standard”.

(Source: igus GmbH)

The E2 micro series is available in over 180 different variants. A chain opener is always included for the openable models. (Source: igus GmbH)

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Feature

The future of welding The article highlights new norms and technology that set trends in welding

New technologies, new material, stringent timeline, market competition, all which pose a challenge to welding industry.

VV Kamath, National Sales Director, Fronius India Pvt. Ltd. insightful analysis. The report said, currently, electric plasma and arc welding machinery accounts for about 40 per cent of the global demand while the remaining market share is divided between electric resistances welding machinery (24.9 per cent), other electric, ultrasonic and laser welding machinery (30.5 per cent), gas welding machinery (2.7 per cent) and other welding machinery (4.6 per cent).

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A historical perspective The technology of welding has enabled man to progress mechanically over the past century. Welding which is synonymous with the construction business and every other item involving metals and machines has helped people to lead safe and secure lives. Future of welding is an analysis of the trends in technology that are shaping the welding industry. As global trend is being set by light weight and sleek design for all of technology in general, technology in welding will go that way.

Welding is an important part of the industrial revolution and still remains important to the manufacturing industry.

The technology of welding has developed so much over the years with several projections of future technological developments in the field. Welding as we know it today is a hi-tech skilled job and historically it dates back to many centuries ago where it existed in its primitive form. Welding has played its role ever since, men started building houses or structures to live in. Over the years, welding has been used widely in transport, to build bridges, roads and highways and to manufacture goods and services. Welding has a role to play in every facet of life where metals are involved.

Market scenario The global welding industry is touted to grow at a rate of 3-4 per cent according to current figures and industry reports. However, this growth figure has not been effectively realised owing to the economic slowdown and unfavourable market conditions. Also various new norms and compulsions have put tremendous pressure on the welding industry. A report published by Global Research & Data Services Oy on the welding market globally, has some

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“The largest welding markets in the world are represented by developed nations, namely Canada, China, Germany, Japan and the United States while countries like India represent a smaller share of the pie,� the report observes.

A change in the way the industry works VV Kamath, National Sales Director, Fronius India Pvt. Ltd., has some compelling points to share with us. Mr. Kamath tells us that the Industry is going through a change, both in terms of technology as well in the way it works. The new emission norms are bringing about changes in the technology as they call for reduction in emissions. Also there is a new found awareness about welding in our customers.

The foreign clients and investors also look for greater quality in the welding and they also want to cut costs. Changes in welding are also shaped by the way the market functions.

Even as the welding market in India is unorganised, we are competing with companies on a global scale. He also adds that the Industry doesn’t give importance to the money invested in welding accessories which are very important and crucial in welding.

He points out that, over the past few years welding has adopted itself to advancements in technology and the inclination towards quality. The Inverter technology, once considered the future of welding is now widely adopted by the industry. As there are new developments in global technology they will shape the future of welding by bringing new developments in the field.

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feature welding. With new found career options in other sectors and lucrative pay packages, a lot of people are opting for careers that they find exciting and this has created a vacuum in welding. The experienced and skilled workers usually choose to pursue their careers abroad. This has resulted in less number of skilled workers remaining in India in comparison to what is required by the Indian market.

offers a quite challenging and quality welding requirement.

At present this challenge is negated by countries in SouthEast Asia and the Middle-East. “Our country is slowly becoming one of the major players in this segment and we see lot of future in this segment for Indian industry,” Mr Kamath concludes. n CMT Glas Schatten

He also believes that the new government is adding life back to the economy. He says, “New technologies, new material, stringent timeline, market competition, all which pose a challenge to welding industry. Until and unless we change the mindset of allotting very low capital investment and giving least preference to training it would be more and more difficult for the welding industry to meet challenges.”

Future trends and demands in welding On the Future of the welding industry, Mr Kamath observes that the Indian market is shifting from manual to automation. The future belongs to robotics and automation.

Most of the global majors already have the presence and adequate resources to meet this demand. MIG/MAG welding with its variants will play a major role in terms of process.

One of the areas, which will see rapid growth according to Mr Kamath, would be the high deposition welding market.

Fronius has Twin wire welding in its portfolio and we have seen a great demand for the product line. Welding SPM with very good quality and repeatability will be of high demand in precision welding areas. Oil and gas segment

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Hand & Power Tools

Black Jack hand tools give cost advantage Black

Jack India Ltd. has been in International business for the last over 3 decades exporting hand tools all across the globe to over 40 countries including Americas, Europe, Africa, Middle East, Far East countries and Australia. Black Jack India is an ISO 9001:8000 certified company. Quite a few of the tools namely spanners are TUV and GS approved from Germany.

Striking tools

Over the years, Black Jack has been very aggressive and successful in Europe, Central America and South America. However, Black Jack was not very successful in the US as the company did not find the right partner to promote and market its products. In Europe the company supplies to quite a few big chain stores. Black Jack India is a supplier to Kingfisher group members (Brico Depot, Castorama, B&Q, Screwfix), Inter Marche group (Brico Marche, Jumbo), Merca Tone etc.

Good quality products with competitive pricing and timely delivery has been the key strength. Wrenches (especially Combination Wrenches) have been the strongest product which is in compliance ANSI standards.

Black Jack India Ltd. does extensive traveling, meeting clients regularly to keep up with the changing demands.

Black Jack India Ltd. is also regular participant in a number

of International trade shows like the National Hardware Show at Las Vegas, USA, at the International Hardware Fair – Cologne, Germany, The Canton Show (both in April and in October) and a few other as well.

The marketing executives are well versed with International trends relevant to the business and travel extensively across the globe to keep pace with the evolving need of valued customers.

Products Black Jack India Ltd. offers a comprehensive range of products that are designed to meet the needs of various industrial activities. The hand tools are highly functional for DIY, automotive and construction industries. The range of products that are offered includes: l Spanners l Vices l Plumbing tools l Pliers l Carpenter and woodworking tools l Striking tools l Lubricating tools l Automotive tools, tools bags l Measuring tools, taps and dies. n Contact Black Jack India Limited Rajat Bose, D - 63, South City - 1, Gurgaon, Haryana - 122 001 Tele: +91-124-3250048 (Direct) Fax : +91-124-4269766 Mobile : +91-9811630303

Aardwolf Engineering range of hand & power tools Aardwolf

Engineering Co. is a 20-year old company, started with a vision to serve the customer with the right products at the right price started in 1994 with just few sub dealers, now have a network of about nearly 250 sub dealers growing together.

Aardwolf, have associate concerns operating in Chennai and Hyderabad. There are leading brands for which Aardwolf Engineering Company is an authorised distributor to count on with Jost Engineering Company based in Thane which supplies Hand operated pallet truck, battery operated truck, scissors lift, sackers, racking systems. Cromwell which supplies complete industrial suppliers, Stanley Machine Tools which are suppliers of hand tools, pneumatic tools and measurement tools. Other 36

companies like Bullows Equipment Ltd. supplies spray painting guns, containers, booth etc. Ambika Overseas, a company based in Jalandar and other companies like Jon Bhandari, Black & Decker are suppliers of hand tool like spanners, cir-cir pliers, sockets, hammers, cutting pliers, drills, grinders, hammer drill, demolition, circular saws, cutters, etc. Other companies like Unoair supplies pneumatic tools like air drill micro die grinders Impact Wrenches. These are made available to customers through a distribution network since Aardwolf Engineering Company has the maximum number of products that are ex stock available. Aardwolf Engineering Company ensures that they provide total commitment to customer’s service and support. n Contact Aardwolf Engineering Co., 180 A/9, Dr. Nanjappa Road, NSP Complex, Coimbatore - 641018.

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Groz Tools offers indestructible hammer handle technology At Groz Tools, men work on metals with a passion to engineer and the desire to excel. As a technology leader, the company specialises in the design, manufacture and marketing of a wide range of tools and equipment. Over 2,000 men and women work at its production facilities to convert several tonnes of metal into premium engineering solutions. With over 200 engineers and technicians working at the company’s design centre, researchers use technically advanced software and equipments to develop custom solutions to fulfill client needs.

At Groz tools they set goals for themselves to achieve excellence in the projects that they undertake only to find themselves achieving new targets.

At Groz, they follow stringent and high level of quality control systems and processes that are constantly monitored. At every stage of production, the company follows a high level of consistency.

Products offered End-user demands for safe tools and safe work practices have led to Groz developing Indestructible Handle Hammer Technology.

Groz offers indestructible handle technology, vibration free – safety striking hammer comprising of (sledge hammers, club hammers, ball pein hammers, cross pein hammers which are available both with steel heads and copper heads). These hammers meet BS 876 and ANSI norms. Groz Hammers outlasts wood & fiberglass handle hammers by thousands of overstrikes.

Advantages of hammers l Head Never gets dislodged from the handle. This provides a safe environment for work as workers and co-workers are protected from

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the possibility of injury Vibration free (shock absorbent handle ) l Electrical shock resistance l Indestructible handle technology l Slip resistant. l

These hammers have several applications in l Open cast as well as underground mining l Construction industry l Rail Industry l Heavy metal work industry l Ship building industry l Agriculture co-operatives l Automotive fleet maintenance companies (heavy automotive) l Road industry l Tyre industry l Tiling or brick layer industry l Welding industry l Demolition l On shore and off shore drilling.

Safety Measures End-user training and awareness on tool safety is the need of the hour.

Groz has pioneered this initiative by organising free service camps in industries and automotive workshop clusters all over the country. n For more details contact at india@groz-tools.com, care.dom@groz-tools. com; Tele: +91-124-2827734

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Graebert India unveils first DWG-based, full CAD solution for Android tablets

ARES Commander and ARES Touch The Cross-device CAD Experience

To address the fastgrowing tablet market on Android platform, Graebert India announced the launch of ARES Touch 2015, the CAD solution for Google Android.

Far more than a simple viewer or editor, ARES Touch 2015 is a complete professional CAD solution, using the same engine powering ARES Commander on Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.

Capabilities • Native DWG support: Create and modify drawings in the same format without import or export • An intuitive user interface that is completely optimised for touch and offers an easy transition for any CAD professional • Synchronise projects with the Cloud via Dropbox and soon Google drive as well as other services. If any customer is not linked to cloud storage from Graebert, any solution that best fits his/her needs, can be chosen.

• A complete set of tools to not only review, but create or modify drawings on the go.

• Designed for tablets of size 7-inch’ or more. One can also run ARES Touch on a smartphone but mostly for viewing due to the size of the screen.

Gartner predicts a total of 320 million tablet sales worldwide in 2015, versus just 316 million PC sales (desktops and laptops) with Android making up 62% of worldwide aggregate tablet sales.

“ARES Touch is the first CAD application to include an open API for developers to easily and quickly migrate their applications from desktop to mobile,” the company claims. Previously, developers of vertical applications had to redevelop apps from scratch when moving to mobile. “With ARES Touch, any add-on created for ARES Commander or AutoCAD can now be migrated painlessly to mobile. As a result, developers can maintain the same core stream of code for desktop and mobile platforms and only need to focus their development on Touch UI adaptation,” Graebert said in a release.

“While we believe users will keep using their PC for heavy duty CAD tasks, we see a growing demand for agility to work from multiple devices including tablets and smartphones and are very excited to introduce ARES Touch 2015 to meet that pent-up need,” said Wilfried Graebert, CEO and founder of Graebert GmbH. Graebert is a pioneer in developing high-performance CAD solutions across desktop and mobile devices.

“Users of ARES Commander 2015 will have the privilege to receive ARES Touch 2015 for free this year,” informed Surya Sarda, Director of Marketing and Business Development, Graebert India.

Pricing Users of ARES Commander will receive ARES Touch for free and vice-versa, for the duration of their Graebert subscription. “When Graebert customers buy a license of ARES Commander, they will receive a license of ARES Touch for their Android tablets,” the company said. n For more details, contact Graebert India at sales.india@ graebert.com

Rockwell Automation acquires ESC Services Rockwell Automation announced purchasing the assets of

“ESC Services will enable Rockwell Automation customers to increase asset utilisation and strengthen enterprise risk management, while adding safety to our growing portfolio of data-driven, cloud-enabled services,” said Matt Fordenwalt, Rockwell Automation consulting business manager.

“The global use of lockout-tagout is expanding among multi-national corporations, and represents a great growth opportunity,” said Kelly Michalscheck, president, ESC Services. “This acquisition enables us to extend ESC Services lockout-tagout procedures and ScanESC solutions to tens of thousands of additional OEM machines, delivering more value and unique offerings to Rockwell Automation’s extensive global channels.”

ESC’s unique methodology utilises Quick Response (QR) codes that can be scanned to obtain asset information and streamline compliance with both external regulations and internal safety policies.

ESC Services, based in Franklin, Wis., will be integrated into Rockwell Automation’s Control Products and Solutions segment as part of its customer support and maintenance business unit. n

ESC Services, a global hazardous energy control provider of lockout-tagout services and solutions.

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BKT: Global leaders through innovation BKT has completed 25 years as one of the global leaders with presence in the off-highway tyres segment. Today, BKT enjoys its presence in more than 130 countries around the world. It becomes a preferred supplier to international OEMs in industrial, construction and agricultural tyre segments, and has grown since its inception in 1988 to become an industrial conglomerate exporting an extensive range of off-highway solutions across the world.

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Made at BKT Quality conscious users who adhere to stringent conformity standards across the world prefer BKT as their supplier.

Talking on the quality control of its tyres, Rajiv Poddar, Joint Managing Director, BKT said, “Today BKT products are known for their reliability and have the lowest claim ratio in the industry. Each of our products passes over 450 stages of tests.”

The company has products from 5-inch rim diameter to 54-inch rim diameter for vehicles ranging from trailers, forklifts, etc. to technologically advanced machines like high horsepower tractors, combines, harvesters, GPS controlled vehicles, articulated dump trucks, highspeed cranes, sophisticated port vehicles and container handlers, etc.

One stop shop for mining and industry BKT ventured into the production of all steel radials in 2008 being the first tyre company in India to produce all-steel radial OTR tyres. All steel radial plants at Bhuj in Gujarat and Chopanki in Rajasthan are now functioning on full throttle producing top of the line radial tyres for OTR vehicles ranging from rigid dump trucks to snow manoeuvring vehicles.

R&D department at BKT has developed tyres that can encounter the toughest and the most hostile terrains faced during mining and industrial activities. The tyres under this segment range from a 20-inch diameter tipper truck size to a giant 51-inch rigid dump truck

Today BKT products are known for their reliability and have the lowest claim ratio in the industry.

Rajiv Poddar, Joint Managing Director, BKT size, in both radial and bias make, thus covering every requirement in industrial use and mining.

New solutions for the new world In sync with the growing and changing demands, BKT makes significant investment in new product development. Discussing the company’s efforts in this area, Dilip Vaidya, Director and President- Technology, says, “In addition to BKT’s state of the art factories, we also possess an in-house mould design and a production plant which enables us to achieve production flexibility and frequent changeover in production cycles as per demand.”

Bhuj plant to boost BKT’s productivity The manufacturing plant in Bhuj, Gujarat is the 4th manufacturing unit set up by BKT in India. The project complex comprises of about 300 acres of land located in the Gujarat region close to Mundra. The region makes it easy to transport raw materials, mainly imported, along with the export of containerised tyres. The site foresees a large warehouse with a land of about 15 acres dedicated exclusively to R&D. The testing facility at the plant is equipped with indoor and outdoor testing areas for the products with a special testing track constructed for test runs and on field tests for the tyres.

The BKT Bhuj plant is a greenfield project focused on developing a range of radial and bias tyres. This facility will also produce ultra-large and giant OTR tyres to 51inch rim diameter. n

BKT’s Chopanki plant

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Muratec fully automated twin spindle CNC chucker MW180 The new MW180 twin spindle CNC chucker machine offers an ideal solution for cutting solution. It performs great in compact space i.e. compact cell system with floor size 2,850 mm X 1,865 mm. The 3-axis gantry loader offers versatile automation and the high speed gantry loader and turret axes reduces the cycle time drastically. Heavy duty cutting is possible with column or turret bar style design construction.

Murata Machinery Ltd (brand Name “Muratec�) is one of the global leaders in providing fully integrated inhouse with built-in automation for a wide range of applications. n

Contact MURATEC, one of the pioneers in twin spindle turning machines is making constant efforts to give its customers in manufacturing of automotive components, high quality, latest technology, next generation twin spindle turning machines for high accuracy, high productivity and cell, customised automation requirements.

Meiban Engineering Technologies Pvt. Ltd., No. 38, 7th Main, J C Industrial Estate, Yelachenahalli, Kanakapura Road, Bengaluru – 560 062 Tele: +91-80-26860600 Email: office@meibanengg.com

Aerosense air flow measuring station Specifications: Accuracy : +/-3% Temperature : Maximum operating, 350 deg f.

Maximum designed flow : 6000 feet per minute.

Casing : CRCA duly powder coated.

Pressure sensors : SS 304 duly buffed.

Pressure ports : SS 304

ALM Engineering & Instrumentation Pvt. Ltd., an ISO 9001 certified company is basically into instruments related to measure and control of pressure including differential pressure, flow, temperature, relative humidity and level, The company is either manufacturing or importing quality precision instruments for HVAC, BAS, EMS, textile and industrial automation.

The company offers Duct Mounted and Airflow Measurement Station.

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The air flow measuring station is easy to install. The instrument utilises an airflow averaging element in a head-type device, generating a differential(velocity) pressure signal similar to the orifice, ventury and other head producing primary elements. Strategically located sensing ports continuously sample the total and static pressures when inserted normal to flow.

Total pressures sensed by the upstream ports are continually averaged within the airflow element in an isolated chamber. The static sensing ports are averaged in a second isolation chamber. Multiple element are joined together for connection to a differential measurement device (gage, transmitter, etc) for flow measurement and indication purposes. n March 2015 n OEM Update

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Albro range of gears for mechanical power transmission Albro,

one of the reputed and established names in mechanical power transmission, provides quality products, available off the shelf as well as made to order according to customers’ specifications and individual requirements as per sample in mild steel, cast iron and carbon steel, etc.

Besides its usual range of chains and sprockets in simplex, duplex and triplex, conveyor chains with attachments, elevator buckets and chains, PIV chains, leaf chains, extended pitch chains, silent chains and stainless steel industrial chains (any type, any size) and their spares, Albro has a complete range of various gears which includes hob cut spur, bevel spiral and helical gears, racks and pinions, ratchets and pawl, worm wheels.

The company also provides a range of couplings which include jaw and chain types, universal joints, gear, tyre

and pin bush type. Its pulleys range also include timing belt pulleys, flat pulleys, V-belt pulleys and variable speed pulleys like diaphragm (both side - basket spring) type and auto-manual and junior type pulleys with fabricated sliding base.

Albro provides helpful design assistance using its gear design tables and simplified engineering tables and many money and energy saving ideas.

It is authorised main dealer for “DIAMOND” super chains and their genuine spares, connecting lock and half link, made by TIDC INDIA, an ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 company. n

Contact Albro Trading Co., 42-44 S. M. Allabux Marg (Bhajipala Street), Mumbai - 400 003 Tele: +91-22-23424336, 23441194 Fax: +91-22-23447116 Email: sales@albrotradingco.com www.albrotrading.com

KHD offers precision industrial valves KHD Valves Automation, an ISO 9001:2008, ISO 14001:2004 and OHSAS 18001:2007 company, has been in the manufacturing of industrial valves for the past four decades.

Each valve manufactured by KHD passes through stringent quality control tests at every stage of production thus each valve made perfect in all respect. Each valve is tested on in-house state-of-the-art test bed as per the latest Indian BS and ASA standard for hydraulic and pneumatic testing.

Standardisation of valves components manufacturing ensures easy inter-changeability hence maintenance becomes most easy.

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process industries and other vital industrial units.

The company has necessary infrastructure for manufacturing testing, design, drawing development and quality control.

To keep pace with the fast changing world, KHD Valves Automation has computerised most of its activities from designing to marketing. It has real appetite to design and develop new types of valves or tailor-made designs for customers. KHD Valves Automation has been standardised for all critical services by renowned establishments. n

Contact KHD Valves Automation Pvt. Ltd. Jogani Industrial Estate, Bldg. No: 9, Gr. Floor, Unit No. 7, V.N. Purav Marg, Chunabhatti (E), Sion, Mumbai – 400022, Maharashtra Tele: +91-22-24051234, 24055678 Fax No: +91-22-24055678 Mob: +91-982 111 6437, 8108450450 Email: khdhemant@gmail.com www.khdvalvesautomation.com March 2015 n OEM Update

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Rockwell Automation partners with Microsoft and Cisco; hosts automation fair in Chennai

Rockwell Automation on the Move 2015 is a commitment to help manufacturers gain the competitive advantage they need to succeed and grow.

Rockwell Automation partners with Microsoft and Cisco for joint solution development and integrated solutions and services. These collaborative efforts shall result in better asset optimisation and broader risk management for industrial companies. Rockwell Automation and Cisco are committed to being the most valuable resources in the industry for helping manufacturers to improve business performance by bridging the technical and cultural gaps between plant flow and higher level information systems and the enterprise.

Rockwell Automation and Microsoft are working together and aligning strategically to accelerate innovations for both operations and IT practitioners, to develop manufacturing information solutions that enable manufacturers to increase the value of ownership that shall help the customers to leverage their existing technology investments.

U.S based Rockwell Automation Inc. an over 6.26 billion dollar, NYSE listed company dedicated to industrial automation and information is focusing on further expanding its global foot print in emerging markets.

Rockwell Automation which employs over 20,000

professional globally, with around 600 based out of India, currently drives 22 per cent of its revenues from Asia Pacific region.

The theme of Rockwell Automation on the Move 2015, “The Connected Enterprise” has the belief that manufacturing will change more radically in the next 5 years than it has in the last 20 years. “Rockwell Automation on the Move 2015 is a commitment to help manufacturers gain the competitive advantage they need to succeed and grow.

Every manufacturer shall enter and progress through the stages of ‘The Connected Enterprise’ that is most appropriate for it, at a pace determined by its own needs, infrastructure, readiness and resources. It is critically important for Rockwell’s customers (manufacturers) to experience what its offerings are, and hence looking at creating customer briefing centres to take its solutions closer to their hearts,” said Dilip Sawhney, Managing Director, Rockwell Automation, India.

Tom O’Reilly, President Asia Pacific, Rockwell Automation said, “We are clearly focused on the biggest emerging markets like India, China and South East Asia. If you look at these markets today they have very good Gross Domestic Products. In these markets, there is a rapid growth due to increased rate of urbanisation and with this opens huge prospects for Rockwell’s products and solutions.”

Mr Sawhney further said, “Manufacturing is tightly linked to overall business processes for the enterprise. This has manifested itself in a convergence of IT and automation technologies, driving real time decision making from demand fulfilment back through the supply chain.

We have seen great gains in productivity as a resultSmart manufacturing is a fundamental need for all manufacturers.” n

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