IIoT India 2020: Reimagining the Future' by SingEx Exhibitions Concluded at Hyatt Regency Gurugram

IIoT India 2020: Reimagining the Future' by SingEx Exhibitions concluded at Hyatt Regency Gurugram with powerful discussions. The conference tracks include engaging sessions, case studies, live demos & panels on Smart Manufacturing, Smart Infrastructure, Cyber Physical System, Big Data Analytics, Enablers. Over 35 speakers from renowned global MNCs participated in the event. The event was attended by many dignitaries including Ravi Agarwal, President, Automation Industry Association; Gaurav Sarup, Managing Director, Marshall Machines; Vivek Saha, Director and Head Digital transformation and industry 4.0; Anup Wadhwa, Director Automation Industry Association and Baldeep Singh Pahwa, General Manager & Country Head, SingEx India.

Expressing his happiness on the occasion Mr. Baldeep Singh Pahwa, General Manager & Country Head, SingEx India, said, "Manufacturing automation will lead to faster and more efficient production processes, increased efficiency, and reduction of complexity and downtime. As Industry 4.0 moves from vision to reality, it's evident that no single player can do it alone. Only with open collaboration and idea exchanges will 4.0 concepts find their way into practical implementations. It is with this thought in mind that we set out to form a collaborative environment between suppliers and manufacturers at IIoT India 2020"

The 2020 edition of IIoT India is a business platform dedicated towards reimagining the future by creating collaboration and knowledge sharing opportunities for professionals in the Smart Manufacturing & Smart Infrastructure value chain. The event aims to connects technology solution providers, enablers, end-users and potential IoT technology adopters. IIoT India 2020 focused on the development   and   the   future   growth   of   IoT adoption in Manufacturing & Infrastructure in India.

Speaking on Accelerating Innovation & Partnership within Industry; Ravi Agarwal, President, Automation Industry Association, said “The word Smart in India can be break down in Sansadhan, Manav, Rupaya and Technique. To me Smart is an amalgamation of these four words in the backdrop of India and anybody is able to balance these four, nobody can stop that enterprise or an individual from being a success story. It has been a thought process that do we actually absorb all the high technology stuff, copy it and paste it in the Indian manufacturing format; force our people and make them think certain ways. Our country has survived for thousands of years not by copy paste but by absorbing, evolving and making everything in India.”

Gaurav Sarup, Managing Director, Marshall Machines, shared his views on Empowering Industry with Smart Machines. He highlighted the importance of three low hanging fruits and encouraged the crowd to adopt them UMM-Universal Machine Monitoring, PDM- Predictive Maintenance and CLAP-Closed  loop autocorrected production. He added, “These three low hanging fruits in manufacturing are accessible, affordable, easily implementable, yielding good results in just few months of manufacturing.”

SingEx Exhibitions India, IIoT India has been a key industry platform for governments, industries, and technology leaders to foster closer partnerships and in turn, create opportunities for the public and private sectors to embrace Industrial Internet of Things. Co-located with IIoT India, Xelerate India is a platform for start- ups, corporates, government and support service providers to collaborate and advance innovation.

Simpliance Bespoke Audit Management Tool Streamlines Audit Process for Organisations

Simpliance Technologies, India's largest integrated digital Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) platform helps organisations to fulfil their audit requirements with Simpliance Bespoke Audit Management tool. The cloud-based tool offered by Simpliance, a key subsidiary of India's leading business services provider Quess Corp (BSE: 539978, NSE: QUESS), can be customized as per multiple audit engagements and is simple and effective in implementation.

Ranging from financial audits (as per the international accounting standards), assets audit to ISO audits, Simpliance Bespoke Audit Management tool manages the auditing end-to-end. Its detailed automated auditing report with simplified work paper management and risk-based auditing processes help business meet their specific audit requirements in a most efficient method. Simpliance's intelligent engine with its flexible interface allows organizations to create their own auditing checkpoints, weightage, risk and arrive at the scoring on an intuitive dashboard. It also reduces 40% of overall cost with reduced manpower, logistics cost and management time.

Speaking on the innovative product, Anil Prem D’Souza, Founder and CEO, Simpliance Technologies said, “With Simpliance’s Bespoke Audit Management tool, the timeline required for scheduling and logistics reduces to almost zero with large no. of audits beings run with speedier turnaround. It also increases productivity by 75% for vendors, stakeholders and business rather than logistics, paperwork and resubmission of data repeatedly.”

With Bespoke Audit Management tool, organizations can identify and create pre-audit checkpoints which do not carry weightage, define process specific compliance checkpoints and create dynamic forms & fields to include other parameters of the audit. This flexibility allows organizations to conduct audits such as and ISO audit, check of financial assets, environmental health & safety, social audits or even simple internal company audits belonging to internal processes. The easy-to-use cloud-based tool allows online submission of evidences by auditees and online auditing by auditors. This ensures that the tracking, log, observation and recommendation are all visible to various stakeholders in the organization, without the need for manual requesting and reporting. Also, the advanced options enable sighting of Non-Compliance (NC) by auditors and allows tracking and updation by auditee until closure of NC.

"Simpliance has been conducting monthly vendors compliance audits for us in a diligent and organized manner. Their software also has required features that are aimed at reducing manual intervention. Periodic compliance updates shared by them also helps us stay updated,” said the spokesperson from Cushman & Wakefield.

Bespoke Audit Management tool recognizes and highlights global audit standards and principles of Corrective Action Preventive Action (CAPA) and ensures mitigation of risks during the audit process. The quality of audits is standardised with the online platform which has complete legal and statutory information from over 70,000 pages of digital data on the latest amended laws.

About Simpliance Technologies

Backed by India's leading business services provider Quess Corp (BSE: 539978, NSE: QUESS), Simpliance is a Bengaluru-based compliance technology firm incorporated in April 27, 2016. Simpliance provides an easy-to-install SaaS-based plug-and-play governance, risk and compliance solutions that simplifies labour compliance management to organisations varying from large corporates to start-ups. It lets the organizations manage the entire ecosystem of labour law compliance by automatically configuring applicable compliances as per state and industry. Also, it has a free e-library that has close to 70,000 pages of curated labour laws neatly catalogued and available for anyone who wants to learn and comply with the laws of the land.

Remote Working Technologies to Protect its Employees from the Coronavirus Outbreak'

“COVID-19 or Coronavirus, a global pandemic, has disrupted the day-to-day processes of businesses. Organizations are now focusing on the safety and well-being of their employees, and rightly so. Instead of halting operations, however, businesses can choose to shift towards remote working methods. According to a report by Gartner, 54% of HR leaders have cited that poor technology and/or infrastructure for remote working is the biggest barrier to effective remote working.  This is where the robust services of CloudConnect Communications come into the picture.

Mr. Gokul Tandon, Executive Chairman, CloudConnect Communications said, as India’s first licensed B2B Virtual Network Operator, CloudConnect Communications offers a collaborative platform that allows companies to overcome this threat while maintaining seamless business continuity and optimum employee productivity. We offer a secure, robust, reliable, scalable and trackable mobile-first unified communication infrastructure that aids remote teleworking so that businesses can continue operating even under any unforeseen circumstances. We are looking forward to helping your businesses thrive and emerge victorious from this unprecedented challenge.” 

Kannada Film Director Prashant Hires 15 Students from LISAA & CREO for Upcoming Film Gully 7

Fifteen students of LISAA School of Design, a premier fashion school  & CREO Valley have been selected by Director Prashant Ranganath from Bakeflicks for the upcoming debut movie Gully 7  during a campus placement drive at LISAA School of Design today.  The film is about the story on Vinayaka, ayoung man who walks with a dream to make cricket and its spirits felt across the globe. He drives inspiration from his mentor/coach to achieve many milestones.

“Bakeflicks is coming up with a film based on cricket. Being an ardent follower of cricket and an educationist, I am delighted to see the zeal  which students have appeared for campus recruitment opportunity offered by Bakeflicks,” says Girish Keswani, Director, LISAA School of Design. He further added, “With the technical and conceptual skills we impart to our students I am confident these students willadd lot of value to the  Gully 7 film during pre-post and during production of the film.The fact that the film is based on cricket has definitely created a buzz on our campus!!” Avi Keswani,Director, LISAA School of Design, says “We have always been confident of our curriculum and pedagogy at CREOValley School of Film and Television and LISAA School of Design. It's great tosee that Mr. Prashant from Bakeflicks has expressed keen interest in not only Film Making but our Design students as well.”  “It is days like these we at CREO Valley school of Film and Television always look forward to, where we have an opportunity to put our students’ in front real world production requirements and see how well they grab the opportunities. It is heartening, to see a good number of students being picked for various production roles for the upcoming production of Bake Flicks, the "Gully7", says Mr. Rajiv Ganesan, Headof Department, LISAA Film Making.

“Though the curriculum at CREO Valley is very comprehensive, there are some skills that can be acquired only by exposing the students to an actual production that has deadlines and deliverables. We are very happy to collaborate with Bake flicks in giving students the valuable exposure and wish to thank Mr. Prashant and his team for choosing CREO Valley for this collaboration,” he added.

Prashanth & Ashwin , Bakeflicks Entertainment LLP said, “Lissa, Creo Valley and Bake Flicks Entertainment is a collaboration which can better the film industry. An institute which is focused on bringing industry ready young talent and we as a production house are excited with this vision. We hope to create meaningful content which the whole industry takes pride!” About LISAA School of Design LISAA School of Design is a premier Design institute over 35 years of existence in France. The aim of LISAA School of Design is to nurture their students to become not only technically professional but also be sensitive tothe aesthetics, culture and spiritual ethos of the society for whom they design. Spread across 11 locations globally, LISAA School of Design is built on heritage, excellence and opportunities.

It was set up in India in 2013 with state-of-the-art infrastructure and campus in Bangalore. LISAA - Bangalore is owned and operated by CREO Valley, the school of creativity and innovation recognized by Qualifications & Assessments International (QAI), UK, Federation of European School (FEDE) and Jawaharlal Nehru Technical Education - Council of Skill Development (JNTE) in higher education. LISAA School of Design has a multidisciplinary approach to design education that promotes both creativity and experimentation, studying and learning in this environment helps the students to develop a unique perspective. LISAA Bangalore is recognized by the University in Bangalore to offer Degree Courses in Fashion & Textile Design, Interior & Product Design and Graphic & Web Design. It also offers Student Exchange program with more than 7 other locations in France. About the Director Prashanth is also the Founder & CEO of Tingg Creation. Prashanth’s association with theatre, television & cinema goes back to 2004.

He started off co-directing TV shows, managed complete production for theater plays, was part of the pre-production phase for a few films & promotional stage for several others. As a passionate pursuer of cinema, he completed his masters in Mass Communication from Mysore University & represented one of the leading universities in the country as part of a study tour to Universal Studios, USA.He was a part of the acclaimed event ‘100 years of Indian Cinema’,where he & his team launched a magazine about various facets of movie production. He moderated a panel discussion & set the tone for the discussion on ‘Future of digitization in Films’ in the ‘10th Bengaluru International Film Festival 2018’. After the valuable learnings fromUniversal Studios & priceless experience in the media industry, he is devoted to producing quality cinema.

Women's Car Rally Held on March 8, at Orion Avenue Mall to Mark International Women's Day

Women’s Car Rally organised by Orion Avenue Mall to mark International Women’s Day. Popular Kannada actress Ragini Dwivedi gave away the prizes to the winning teams.

ACT Fibernet Upgrades Internet Broadband Speed and Data Limit to Facilitate Work from Home for Customers Amidst Virus Outbreak

ACT Fibernet, one of India’s largest wired ISPs (Internet Service Provider), today announced the roll out of its upgraded media streaming device – ACT Stream TV 4K to all its today announced its unique initiative to offer additional speed and data to facilitate seamless work from home experience for customers recognizing the emergence of the fatal virus pandemic in India.

Current situation requires employees at large to continue their operations from the confines of their houses, ACT will be turbo charging internet connections to 300 Mpbs speed and provide 300GB additional data, to encourage customers to continue work from home without any interruptions and limitations.

Under this plan, customers will be able to receive turbo speed boost for INR 1300 and additional data boost for INR 600. Customers can avail this plan through the app, after which their internet speed will be increased, and the additional data will be added within 24 hours which will be valid till 31st March 2020.

Commenting on the plan, xxx says “With the emergence of the new threat, individuals have been advised to work from home to reduce exposure and ensure that the virus does not spread further. As a company, we are encouraging this practice and we would like to do our part in facilitating and ensuring that our customers do not face any problems while taking up their work from home. This initiative is not only a channel to augment speed and data usage, but also a means for people to stay connected and work without any inconvenience”.

ACT Fibernet will be providing this performance boost for all customers who have higher end routers to access uninterrupted and unlimited high-speed internet and data for their work needs.

Ashok Leyland Delivers Modular Platform Vehicles with BS VI Technology in Bengaluru

Ashok Leyland, flagship company of the Hinduja Group and India’s leading commercial vehicle manufacturer, today delivered the first batch of vehicles built on its new modular platform with i-Gen6 BSVI technology to its customers at Bengaluru. The modular platform is first of its kind in the Indian CV industry with multiple options of axle configuration, loading spans, cabins, suspensions, drivetrains on a single platform for range of Trucks, Tippers and Tractors.  This helps customers to configure vehicles based on their application and business needs.

The Modular platform will enable customisation of the product which in turn will deliver better operational economics to its customers. The company has also worked on providing improved safety and comfort in the product. The aggregates have also been improved in this platform which will ensure higher reliability and durability. These vehicles are supported by next Gen i-alert fleet management system with remote diagnostics.

Mr. Anuj Kathuria, Chief Operating Officer, Ashok Leyland, said, “We are excited to introduce the innovative modular platform, which will help our customers to improve Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) including best in class operation and maintenance cost. The modular range can be customised to individual customer’s needs - load, terrain, application and operational requirements. We are introducing these vehicles much before the launch to establish the product superiority and enable the customer to get the benefits of higher performance and productivity.”

Earlier this year Ashok Leyland seeded the first batch of BS-VI compliant trucks to its customers in the Delhi-NCR region. The company has consistently relied on its in-house R&D talent and indigenous technology for leading innovations in the industry. In order to meet the BS-VI emission standard, the company has developed the innovative iGen6 technology that will ensure higher operating profits for customers.