Sarla Technologies Expanded its presence in India

Sarla Technologies Inaugrated the new office in Pune and had organized a small pooja on this special occasion on 18th Aug 2011. The Expansion of Sarla technologies with opening of new office at Pune can be considered as one of the step towards achieving its goal of becoming 1000 Employee Organisation.

The Address of our Pune office is as below :-

Sarla Technologies
E1, 4th  Floor,
5th Avenue Building,
Dhole Patil Road,
Pune – 411 001.

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Employee Meet : Open House 2011

Sarla family recently came together to celebrate their Open House Event 2011 at Ramada International , Mumbai. Open House has been the much awaited event and has been a platform to reward the best performing employees. This event also saw our management speakinmg about the company vision and the acheivemenst in the financial year.

Our ” Connect with the leader”session proved to be good session where all the employees seeked answers from the management. Transperancy, faith, visionary statements made this session very successfull.

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Quality system is an important element of control system integrators

Quality has become a top focus for many companies, small and large. Low-cost, low-quality products and services can generate a lot of revenue in the short-term, but lack of quality focus soon will bring the revenue stream to an end. A sustainable goal is one that achieves the best possible balance between quality and competitive cost.

The success of control system integrators’ businesses is directly affected by the quality of the work product. In fact, a quality system is one of the requirements for CSIA certification. A quality system will ensure the end product customers receive is consistent and supportable, and the quality system itself helps the integrator execute projects as efficiently as possible. Happy customers are sure to return with more business, and efficiently run projects are the most profitable.

Integrators need to have following qualities while executing projects.

  • A mature Quality Management System: A system that defines all the processes that exist in the integration business, how they interact, the resources needed to accomplish them, and how to monitor, measure, and analyze their effectiveness.
  • Quality Policy: This process that sets the goals of the quality system and provides the framework to review its effectiveness.
  • Resource Management: This section also deals with ensuring the training of human resources, on the technology required and the quality system itself. It also defines the infrastructure requirements and the equipment needed by personnel.
  • Product Realization: This section of the quality standard provides guidelines for how you “produce” your projects. This is where you define your design process for your projects and identify the processes and documents you follow during the project.
  • Measurement, Analysis, and Improvement: This section identifies the methods by which you will ensure compliance in your organization. It also identifies how improvements are made to the system if deficiencies are found.

While customers look at cost effectiveness when working with Automation Outsourcing partners, QUALITY is the back bone that helps to create long-term customer relationship in enabling them realize their investments.

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Sarla Technologies sponsors Golf Outing event organized by one of the leading engineering company, USA

On June 13, 2011 Sarla Technologies, one of the leading company in the Automation & Plant Intelligence sector, sponsored a golf outing event organized by one of our clients who is a leading engineering company in USA. The event took place across a plush 18 hole golf course with stunning views and awe inspiring terrain at the local Country Club in US midwest. The event which kicked off at 8 AM was followed by an official lunch and vendors-sponsors appreciations.

We were one of the Silver sponsors for the event alongside Rockwell Automation and Johnson Bank and were awarded sponsor award during the award ceremony. During the appreciation, the President of Client Company, said, “Sarla Technologies, as a company has helped us do some outstanding work by being a good outsourcing partner. They have helped us stabilize business and we are very happy with this association”.

The event proved to be an excellent avenue for us as we received immense appreciation from our customers.

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Movie Time @ Sarla

Sarla Technologies again had a fun filled Saturday recently. This time, a Movie show was organized of the film “Ready” for the Sarlaites.

This was a refreshing experience for everyone and all the levels of management enjoyed on this occasion. Thanks to the HR team for facilitating  a different way of bonding.

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Future Innovations in Industrial Automation

Over the past few decades, some innovations in Industrial Automation, in terms of PLC, DCS & SCADA have indeed given industrial automation a continuous gradual growth; those functions will simply be embedded in hardware and software in future. Instead the real growth surge will come from totally new directions.

New technology directions

Industrial automation can and will generate explosive growth with technology related to new inflection points: nanotechnology and nanoscale assembly systems; MEMS and nanotech sensors (tiny, low-power, low-cost sensors) which can measure everything and anything; and the pervasive Internet, machine to machine (M2M) networking.

Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems (MEMS) is the integration of a number of microcomponents on a single chip which allows the microsystem to both sense and control the environment. The components typically include microelectronic integrated circuits (the “brains”), sensors (the “senses” and “nervous system”), and actuators (the “hands” and “arms”).

MEMS applications are growing fast. They are currently used in:

1. Washing machines – vibration sensors for load imbalance
2. Cars – accelerometers (air bags), roll sensors, ABS
3. Vacuums – dirt sensors
4. Microwave ovens – strain gages for food weight
& in Home Theater, cell phones, ear thermometers, stud finders, inkjet printers, game pads for video games, disk drives, robotics, projection displays, and many more

 “Machine-to-Machine (M2M)”& “Pervasive Internet” are all terms that point to the advent of enabling technologies for networking products and devices. Visionary product manufacturers and service companies are already using embedded computing and networking technologies to deliver smart, remotely monitor­able goods that will support entirely new modes of customer-interaction and service de­livery.

 M2M is the technology that allows both wireless and wired systems to communicate with other devices of the same ability. M2M uses a device (such as a sensor or meter) to capture an event (such as temperature, inventory level, etc.), which is relayed through a network (wireless, wired or hybrid) to an application (software program), that translates the captured event into meaningful information (for example, items need to be restocked)

Real-time systems will give way to complex adaptive systems and multi-processing. The future belongs to nanotech, wireless everything, and complex adaptive systems.

Major new software applications will be in wireless sensors and distributed peer-to-peer networks – tiny operating systems in wireless sensor nodes, and the software that allows nodes to communicate with each other as a larger complex adaptive system. That is the wave of the future.

So, in general, innovation and technology can and will reestablish growth in industrial automation.

Source: Automation.com, smalltechconsulting.com

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Mining industry – Increased Automation! Increased work force safety!

Nowadays the mining environment has changed dramatically; and has seen many new developments in automated mining technology, communications systems, computerized process control and worker safety monitoring.

Compared to manual forms of mining, automated mining is considered to be more sustainable for the foreseeable future. Automated mining helps achieves one of the critical milestone which is saving people from dangerous jobs including getting exposed to underground mining environment.

Almost every area of mining is set to use some form of automation within the next few years. Reports continue to suggest that industry demand for automated mining is rising rapidly. Blast-free and continuous gold mining at depths from 5 kilometers (3.1 mi) underground and below would become possible with automated mining techniques.

With much of the low-lying natural resources already picked, the current generation of miners is facing the prospect of having to drill deeper in more remote areas while also processing ore bodies of lower concentrations. This often means having to operate in more dangerous situations while creating more waste. The typical automated mining facility will have driverless trains, driverless trucks, remote-control production drills and remarkably, an operation centre located several kilometers away from the job site.

South Africa still has one of the biggest goldresources in the world, but it is at depth, which results in significant amounts of gold having to be locked up in shaft pillars and stability pillars, because blasting snarls up the ground conditions and creates dangerous seismicity. While South African gold mining has, by and large, not participated in the mechanized mining era, since the 1970s, the new steps are being taken to enable the country to leap from the current manual era directly into the automation era and completely bypass the mechanized era, where most of the global mining industry is currently stuck.

Statistics say over the longer term demand of minerals is projected to grow so quickly that innovation on an advanced level will be needed to help meet it. As many minerals and resources are commodities that have determinant prices that are established daily by global exchanges, the more efficiently companies extract and move them to market, the more profitable the company will be.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_mining

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