ABB India

ABB India believes in continuously working to drive the fourth industrial revolution. During 2016, they developed one the biggest unified automation platforms for the world’s largest single location solar plant in Tamil Nadu, involving more than 600 solar inverters. They have signed a research-led MoU with IIT Madras for Microgrids, green energy projects and the centre for battery engineering, in keeping with their belief that energy storage and distributed generation of energy is key to India realising its power vision. They have even identified a couple of villages for Microgrid pilots.

As a testimony to their pioneering technology of high voltage direct current transmission (HVDC), the company is working with PGCIL to build high powered energy transmission corridors in the country. In order to support Skill India and Make-in-India initiative, they have decided to set up a multi-physics modelling and simulation laboratory in NITTTR, Chandigarh.

“Technologies which render efficiencies, decouple carbon emissions from growth, and better integrate renewables to have a greater degree of connectivity, will be key differentiators,” says Rahman. “Tangible improvement in quality and productivity of industrial manufacturing and production through digitalisation needs to be targeted. This needs a holistic approach of not only analysing the problems and improvements, but finally fixing and installing them in the production environment,” he states.