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DIGITAL REPORT 2020
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Arungalai Anbarasu, CT&SO, discusses the company’s philosophy on digital transformation and how it’s creating peace of mind for manufacturers post-COVID-19
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lthough the detrimental effects of the COVID-19 pandemic are beyond dispute, one positive aspect has been a renewed
openness to digital transformation and its possibilities. Waygate Technologies is a staunch champion 04
of its effect in the non-destructive testing (NDT) and industrial inspection arena. Originally GE Inspection Technologies, the company eventually rebranded itself in 2020 but still maintains its rich industry heritage with over 125 years of world-leading excellence - a combination of 1.700 employees operating globally as part of the Baker Hughes corporation. Using cutting-edge data analytics, Waygate Technologies seeks to augment productivity, boost competitiveness, and provide clients and their customers with the peace of mind they require. Naturally curious and exploratory at a young age, Arungalai Anbarasu, Chief Technology and Strategy Officer, says that engineering provided her with the perfect outlet for exploring these
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“ We retained the people and the culture, so we rebranded in a way that our customers would still recognise us and our services” — Arungalai Anbarasu, Chief Technology and Strategy Officer, Waygate Technologies
passions. “My Master’s thesis (at the Georgia Institute of Technology) was actually on non-destructive testing,” she explains. Joining GE in 2005, Anbarasu quickly developed professionally, “I started to understand why business strategy is so important for a company, which made me take on different roles in the company, from finance strategy to operations, technology, business management, and finally the role I find myself in today.” When the company became Waygate Technologies, she relates that capturing the brand attention once afforded
to GE was challenging. “GE Inspection
customers would still recognise us
Technologies (GEIT) enjoyed such a
and our services. Ultimately, we pro-
strong presence in the NDT industry.
vide them with a gateway to innovation,
We retained the people and the cul-
so that, I believe, was the reasoning
ture, so we rebranded in a way that our
behind our new name.”
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Arungalai Anbarasu Title: Chief Technology & Strategy Officer Company: Waygate Technologies Industry: Industrial Inspection Solutions and Non-Destructive Testing Location: Huerth, Germany
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Arungalai Anbarasu is the Chief Technology & Strategy Officer at Waygate Technologies, driving strategy and innovation for the company. In addition to pushing the technology and business models, boundaries on inspection solutions, Aru and her team are also focused on the digital transformation of Waygate Technologies and spearheading Waygate’s evolution into a Digital Inspection Solutions provider, taking customers from inspections to insights and from insights to innovations. Prior to her current role, Aru was the General Manager for Industrial X-ray and CT solutions business at Waygate Technologies. She also spent over a decade in GE in multiple impactful roles in business divisions such as Global Research Centre, Oil & Gas, Power Conversion, Healthcare and Renewables. She is passionate about encouraging Women in STEM fields and continues to pursue avenues to support this topic. Aru currently resides in Hannover with her husband Divyang and daughter Ada. www.wa y ga t e - t e ch . com
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D H VA N I R E S E A R C H & D E V E L O P M E N T
One of Waygate Technologies’ most important partners is Indian tech hub Dhvani Research & Development. Leveraging IITM, CNDE and ESCON technologies, the company is striving to become a world leader in the research and development of non-invasive diagnostics.
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Anbarasu had the following to say about the two companies’ relationship: “We’ve been working with Dhvani for a few years now and count them as a
valued partner in our journey. Dhvani has access to a wide pool of resources, a strong track record in delivering ADR software and associated applications for x-ray and ultrasound, and their customer base includes top global brands. They are incredibly flexible in their working arrangements and truly drive us to succeed on multiple fronts simultaneously; a nice contrast from hardware companies, which are used to more structured and therefore slower shifts.”
In terms of more recent challenges, Anbarasu cannot deny that COVID-19 has presented a significant operational hurdle. However, she caveats this with a sense of optimism regarding the development of tech within NDT. “I almost see this as the beginning of a new digital revolution towards ‘Industry 4.0+’. I think a lot of this will continue beyond COVID too, with legacy customers becoming more
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latter allows operators to analyse
oritise face-to-face interactions during
and upload data independently
an inspection, but these days we’ve
from anywhere.
been convincing them to do it virtually.
Having these tools, and many oth-
Although the pandemic has driven
ers, illustrates what gives Waygate
us apart physically, it has brought us
Technologies an advantage over
together virtually.” Furthermore, two of
other companies in the space, “We
Waygate Technologies’ flagship digital
have one of the broadest product
products - InspectionWorks Connect
portfolios available,” Anbarasu states.
and Insight - are geared for meet-
“That world-leading breadth across
ing the core challenges introduced
visual, ultrasound, x-ray, CT, Eddy cur-
by COVID: the former allows users
rent, portables, handhelds and cloud
to connect a handheld borescope
services puts us in a really unique
or ultrasonic testing (UT) device to
position.” Observing that a global shift
remotely located experts, while the
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“ Although the pandemic has driven us apart physically, it has brought us together virtually” — Arungalai Anbarasu, Chief Technology and Strategy Officer, Waygate Technologies
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connected ecosystems of information that unlock value exponentially is taking place, she positions the company at the head of this new trend in NDT and industrial inspection. “We pride ourselves in helping our customers both detect defects and avoid them altogether; detecting is important, but if we can avoid a fault
transformation journey is a desire to move beyond simply selling ‘product solutions’ and instead focus on envisioning, creating, building and selling digital inspection solutions. As such, the company has established a four pillar philosophy: 1) Focusing explicitly on developing collaborative partnerships, both with customers and vendors; 2) Shifting away from building products featuring software to true software products; 3) Employing a new commercial presence in the market that will enable the execution of its goals; and 4) Evolving hardware and manufacturing rhythms to drive a steady customer expectation of software releases and updates. Leveraging Waygate Technologies’ storied heritage and not allowing traditions to stifle innovation will be crucial, particularly from occurring, I think that’s far more
as the company transitions from being
valuable to them.” In a way, Anbarasu
a device-centric to a data-centric
says, our approach is comparable to
inspection company. Clearly, a cultural
the best healthcare: its testing identi-
shift will be integral; “That is a much
fies problems early, before they have
larger challenge, though, because
an opportunity to develop into some-
you’re trying to convert people from
thing more hazardous.
their long-held beliefs. This needs to
However, fundamentally guid-
be achieved through the right capital
ing Waygate Technologies’ digital
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“ Waygate Technologies delivers peace of mind with emerging technologies” — Arungalai Anbarasu, Chief Technology and Strategy Officer, Waygate Technologies
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and expanding our digital presence in different geographical regions.” Far from being a strictly internal evolution, though, Anbarasu makes it clear that Waygate Technologies’ digital transformation will have direct benefits for customers. “Consider this: a borescope built by us can enter the combustion chamber of an aircraft engine through an approximately 1cm diameter port, travel to a location and capture an image with its own light source and stereo camera, measuring, in 3D, depths of defects down to the several microns. This is then taken to an exponentially higher value for the customer when Waygate Technologies deploys automatic defect recognition algorithms built on the cloud, delivered on the device. This enables the operator using the instrument to make ‘plane-side’ decisions, thus saving millions of dollars lost in downtime. This is truly incredible technology, and that’s just one example,” she enthuses. “Waygate Technologies delivers peace of mind with emerging technologies,” Anbarasu adds. “These are truly enabling our customers to have full confidence in our www.wa y ga t e - t e ch . com
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solutions’ ability to safeguard them from a quality perspective.” One of the company’s core digital initiatives, InspectionWorks|Ecos, offers an integrated, blockchain-powered data management solution, enabling unified inspection insights across a customer’s entire ecosystem and the complete lifecycle of their assets. Already highly anticipated for its perceived high value and market necessity, Waygate Technologies believes that leveraging this new 16
data solution could be transformative for modern industrial inspections. Already serving the aerospace, defense, automotive, electronics and
same time, we will strive to partner with
energy industries, Anbarasu intimates
clients in new technologies like electric
that, although these will remain the
vehicle (EV) batteries, hydrogen and
company’s core markets, Waygate
3D printing.”
Technologies is interested in branch-
Data, Anbarasu states, will be the
ing out further. “Inspection data is
key to this expansion and Waygate
everywhere and in every process; it
Technologies’ broader digital transi-
can be a very powerful tool for custom-
tion. “I don’t think the abundance
ers to drive productivity, quality and
of data is an issue; I think there’s no
safety,” she says. “We will continue to
longer a debate on whether data is
serve these traditional markets and
valuable and whether it feeds digital
also explore growth areas like medical
transformation. However, what’s now
devices, other forms of transportation
critical is the infrastructure around
and the pharmaceutical sector. At the
data: simply digitising all inspections
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“ Everyone needs to unite, follow the rules, and beat COVID-19” — Arungalai Anbarasu, Chief Technology and Strategy Officer, Waygate Technologies
to corporate ethics as it does to equipment, viewing Waygate Technologies’ position of social responsibility, particularly in the post-COVID-19 world, as equally substantial. “We are trying our best to help out where we can, such as inspecting ventilators, and digital transformation can be a force
is only the starting point; it is when this
for good in achieving that goal,” she
data can be tied to the asset being
concludes. “Everyone needs to unite,
inspected and then cross and counter
follow the rules, and beat COVID-19.”
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