Insights On India’s Heavy Engineering

Q1. Could you start by giving us a brief overview of your professional background, particularly focusing on your expertise in the industry?

Having completed my Mechanical engineering study from REC Surathkal (Now NIT) way back in 1985 and a short study at IIM Ahmedabad on Materials management, during my first 20 years of industrial career, I worked on product development, vendor development, materials management, and green field plant development for 2/3 wheeler manufacturing, auto components manufacturing, and heavy components manufacturing for railways.

Over the last 21 years of my industrial career, I have worked on upgrading manufacturing capabilities, improving processes, and developing new products for the machinery-building and heavy fabrication industries. Major time during the last 21 years was spent on the upgradation of various boiler pressure parts manufacturing.

My exposure to the automotive and automotive components industry helped me implement a line manufacturing concept for pressure parts, enhancing total production output by a factor of 10. Having spent 4 decades in industry, I learned, experimented, and implemented various operational improvements to increase output, enhance quality, and achieve business goals.

Q2. In your view, how close is India’s cost-per-tonne for precision-fabricated equipment to matching Chinese benchmarks, and where is the…