The Address of our Pune office is as below :-

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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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Although HMI & enterprise intelligence have not often been linked together in the past, the increasing need for real-time access to the plant floor information across the enterprise is driving a change in paradigm. Frost & Sullivan in one of its series has explored the evolution of human machine interfaces (HMI) from a standard static operator interface to an active enabler of enterprise-wide intelligence. As fluctuating demand becomes a constant in the market, so has the need for consistent innovation & elimination of non-value adding tasks. This imperative has augmented the importance of lean manufacturing intelligence. The need is towards rationalizing operational metrics & prioritizing key performance indicators (KPIs) that impact bottom-line results.

HMIs play a vital role in enabling this trend by delivering real-time monitoring & systematic performance management solutions from the plant floor to the enterprise. This trend to provide access to operational information away from the plant floor, coupled with the need for integrating the plant floor with enterprise, necessitates HMIs to not just display process –related information but also supply critical operational information to support business decision-making. A case in point is Wonderware – Corporate Energy Management Application that creates energy consumption web reports for various points of the organization, thereby enabling efficient enterprise-wide energy management strategy. One of the key components of this solution is InTouch HMI, which plays a vital role by providing real-time data visibility.

HMI is gaining more significance & the HMI: PLC ratio is increasing continuously. For the entry-level we need a low-cost HMI, bigger display, but very basic HMI functionality. On the other hand there are the high-level HMIs, with more functionalities, including control, monitoring & even wireless mobile HMI including safety functionality.

Driving functionalities of future

The traditional challenge of integrating HMI with different systems is no longer a constraint. End users seek advanced operational capabilities, combined with acceptance of industry standards that are driving HMI usage beyond just an interface.HMI as the core enabler to enterprise efficiency and intelligence is here to stay!

Source: A&D India.

The Indian industrial sector is highly energy intensive and energy efficiency is below that of other industrialized countries. Major consumers of the energy from the  industrial sector being fertilizer, textile, sugar, cement, and steel.Such industries need to promote energy conservation and if done it can considerably reduce their costs of production.

Energy Monitoring for optimum energy consumption : Organizations have started implementing automation solutions like energy monitoring that highlights the complete energy consumption pattern of the organization. Knowing how your facility uses power is a critical step in knowing how to affect and ultimately control it.  Monitoring solutions, whether they are web enabled or stand-alone on site, serve as exceptional tools for proper decision making.  Seeing your facilities’ load curves and understanding what affects they can have tremendous financial benefit.

Different sections of the plant also include utilities including fuel, gas and water treatment which consumes considerable amount of energy. PLC, SCADA, Historian, relays systems are used to centrally connect isolated energy meters from different pumps, motors and other equipments. The energy data from these meters are displayed intelligently giving complete analysis of the consumption patterns, alarm reports, equipment efficiency report, billing reports and soft target reports important for the process person to shut down the low priority equipments immediately.

Energy monitoring solutions which are mix of software and hardware tools measure, control the energy consumption and provide detailed consumption report of different sections of a plant that help in proactive decision making.The energy monitoring solution has proved to help organizations reduce their costs, improve business performance, meet the current and future mandatory energy efficiency targets and requirement of GHG emission reduction legislation, Understand organizations energy risk exposure and identify areas of the organization at greatest risk.

This was a fun experience for all and the motto for organizing such event was achieved successfully making employees feel connected and eventually emerging as a dynamic organization to work with.