India’s Forging Industry Goes Digital

What is the direction technology is taking?

In the past 25 years, I have seen a major shift in the technology landscape. This has been particularly pronounced in the past couple of years. At Bharat Forge, we are at the forefront of technology. Digital transformation is affecting each and every layer of the organization. Each company has its own digital transformation journey. According to us, Digital is the only way organizations are going to work. Irrespective of the business or industry vertical, the change will be all pervasive. Particularly, in our business, there is a lot of scope for improving efficiency, reducing wastage in the system, etc. Some of the initiatives that we have started taking includes deploying end-to-end Industrial IoT (Internet of Things) platform.

Any particular use cases of industrial IoT (Internet of Things) that have been implemented

It is an enterprise platform that we are deploying. My target is that in the next one year each and every machine should be connected to the Industrial IoT platform. At present, we have already connected 14 forging lines and many machines from the machining lines. Use cases are very technical. They can be as simple as putting a vibration sensor…