Boost your profitability with innovative automation

August 13, 2016 2:31 pm

Indian industries need to implement more efficient manufacturing practices that reduce cost of production and increases throughput and new automation technology.
There is an urgent need for a very strong awareness and information campaign about how innovation in machine automation, assembly automation and end of the line packaging or logistic automation can affect profitability, says Ajey Phatak, Head – Marketing, Beckhoff Automation Pvt Ltd. He feels that automation should be implemented at all stages of manufacturing.
Bring in innovative automationAutomation industry in India is more primitive and cost centred. It is also legacy driven rather than new technology driven. Innovative automation is not applied in manufacturing as in developed nations. Though there is lot of interest in implementing automation technology in manufacturing, absence of a more holistic approach is missing. This makes the efforts unproductive. There is a huge opportunity to implement techniques of automation and engineering. While consumer demand is growing, Indian manufacturers are not able to take advantage of the situation. However, many foreign company manufacturers having access to automate manufacturing technology are eating the pie. Very few selected industries are found conscious about automation technology for manufacturing and demand use of high technology to their machine vendors.  However this is restricted for very exclusive and elite products only. Thus high technology automation is still a selective market and not a mass market.
Indian industries need to implement more efficient manufacturing practices that reduce cost of production and increases throughput and new automation technology such as open automation or PC based automation, high speed machine automation, smart monitoring across the manufacturing plant is the only answer. Its expertise is easily available to many industries and hence PC based automation that integrates IT technology for higher machine performance can be of great help.
Indian SME manufacturers need not think of highly complicated customised manufacturing as attempted by developed nations but should focus on implementing automation at all stages of manufacturing. This can overcome the basic challenges of the shop floor and can optimise the cost of goods manufactured increasing profitability.
Focus on innovative packaging of finished goods can be supportive to sales growth. This is another area where automation plays an important role.

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