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Top 26 Innovative Companies 2017

The Hi-Tech Robotic Systemz Ltd. (THRSL) is an Indian tech

company, with its deep roots in Artificial Intelligence, machine

learning, computer vision, multi sensor fusion and autonomous

navigation tech. The core to the company is its leadership team,

who are alumni of Carnegie Mellon University, Harvard Business

School and IITs along with strong technology advisory assistance

from Carnegie Mellon University. The company designs and

develops underlying technology for autonomous vehicles and

driver assistive systems with its implementation in commercial

vehicles (trucks, busses, cars, etc.) and industrial vehicles (forklifts,

pallet trucks, etc.). They also cater to a diverse blue-chip list of

clients, which includes companies like Volvo-Eicher, Ford, Tata

Motors among others.

The Hi-Tech Robotic

Systemz Ltd

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Grand Winner (Most Innovative Company)

The Innovation

Innovation 1

24x7 manual indoor material handling in high throughput or high loads is a

challenging problem. As humans are subject to fatigue, loss of concentration over an extended period, especially during odd hours, making it unsafe and

some cases even lead to loss of life.

Their Natural Navigation KIT enables the existing fleet of electric forklifts, reach trucks and pallet jacks to be converted into driverless vehicle offering safe,

synchronized 24x7 material handling operations.

Innovation 2

Their Mobile Robot model can carry max 1500kg and tug 3000kg loads from

A-B at max 2 m/s using natural environment features for navigation, thus eliminating the task of manually pushing trolleys and optimizing indoor material

movement traffic by central fleet manager.

Innovation 3

Driving for long hours at times could be quite tiring and due to the dynamic

nature of road traffic, it may not be possible for the driver to be alert every moment resulting in accidents, loss of property and life.

THRSL has developed ‘Advanced Driver Assistance’ [ADAS] Systems with a camera installed facing the road. Its safety features are designed to avoid

collisions and lane departure. Their ‘Driver state Monitoring’ [DSM] analyzes drivers state while he/she is driving. It measures fatigue with a camera facing the driver. Both these systems add to safe driving practices.

Benefits

Innovation 1: ‘Natural Navigation KIT’ has improved uptime and enables cloud

connectivity of forklifts utilizing them up to 99.99% of the operating time over

24 hours.

Their Mobile robots (Innovation 2) are green as they are 100% electrically

driven.

ADAS (Innovation 3) can work in ZERO light condition with 360 degree coverage including blind spots.

The Future

The company is focused towards global expansion and is in very strong

position to deliver scalable, smart, autonomous and assistive systems to global

customers through disruptive business models.

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NATIONAL ENGINEERING INDUSTRIES LIMITED (NEI)

13-10-2017

Manufacturing more than 150 million bearings annually in more

than 1000 sizes, National Engineering Industries Limited (NEI) is

the flagship company of CK Birla Group that has a turnover US$

1.6 Billion.

NEI was founded by the renowned industrialist, Shri B M Birla, in

1946 under the name of ‘National Bearing Company Limited’ and

commenced manufacturing operations in 1950. In 1958, the name

of the company was changed to National Engineering Industries

Limited (NEI) owing to its rapid expansion in engineering expertise,

but it chose to retain its original trademark NBC.

NEI has four state of the art manufacturing plants in Jaipur, Newai

(Rajasthan), Manesar (Haryana) and Savli (Gujarat). The company

manufactures a wide range of bearings for automotive, industrial

and railways applications. NEI’s product range includes ball

bearing, taper roller bearing, double row angular contact (DRAC)

bearing, cylindrical roller bearing, spherical roller bearings, special

bearings for the railways, steel mills, heavy industries and power

generation plants.

National Engineering

Industries Limited

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The Innovation

Innovation 1

There is problem of early pre-load loss in pinion support bearing in tractors.

Due to early preload loss, rigidity of the system deteriorates and subsequently

pinion or ring gear gets damaged during service.

The problem is addressed with an innovative ‘Pinion Bearing Solution’, where

preload losses are controlled by replacing taper roller bearings by two angular

contact ball bearings and one cylindrical roller bearing.

Innovation 2

Automotive OEM’s are looking for compact, high load capable, lightweight and reliable solutions for its new models. Traditional wheel bearings used more

parts, consumed more sub-assembly time and were difficult to mount.

NEI developed a 3rd Generation wheel bearing, which are highly integrated

units with a brake disc mounting flange, bearing and wheel mount flange that guarantee highest running accuracy. The bearing clamping force (Preload) is

applied and controlled via a specially formed shoulder, resulting in a maintenance

free design.

Innovation 3

There is a problem of grease drip in idler pulley bearing of timing belt of an

automobile engine. Due to grease drainage metal to metal contact leads to

heat generation and subsequently premature failure of the bearing.

NEI developed a special bearing seal of four lip and unique stiffener design.

The new design gives higher stiffness, which allows the light contact at sealing

lip for the desired sealing at high rpm with less torque.

Benefits

Pinion bearing solution (Innovation 1) does not require any maintenance

during its service thereby eliminating/reducing maintenance cost. It has also improved the load carrying capacity and given NEI a first mover’s advantage in the market

With its (Innovation 2) double flange design and integration, total cost and mounting time of the assembly in the vehicle have reduced.

Unique sealing lip profile (Innovation 3) prevents leakage of lubricant from the bearing and at the same time prevents infiltration of foreign particles inside the bearing thus enhancing bearing life in demanding operating conditions.

The Future

NEI aims to grow in the business of anti-friction bearings, other allied engineering

products and services by delivering superior value to their customers, suppliers,

shareholders, employees and society at large. They also look forward to attaining

a gross turnover of INR 50 billion by 2020.

ManufacturingLarge Enterprise

HELLA is a global, family-owned company with a rich history

spanning over 100 years. It is one among the 100 largest

German industrial companies. Known for its automotive lighting &

electronics product portfolio, HELLA is a highly innovation driven

firm. It employs 40,000 members of staff at over 125 locations in

35 Countries.

Hella India Lighting Ltd. is developing and producing innovative

visibility and signalling solutions to arrest alarming road deaths in

the country. Company is one of the leading automotive lighting

suppliers to OEMs for commercial vehicle, bus & coach and serves

to all special OE segment including tractors, 2 wheelers & off-

highway equipment in the country. The company also distributes

and markets its safety products to fleet owners and technicians

through its countrywide retail network.

Hella India lighting Ltd

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The Innovation

Innovation 1

It is very important “to see” and “to be seen” to avoid road fatality, while driving

on Indian roads.

Hella India Lighting innovated an affordable localised signalling solution for

trucks. A ‘Fit & Forget’, ‘Always On’, affordable full LED truck stop-tail lamps which gives 4 metres extra braking distance to safeguard from accidents on

highways, saves 80% of energy and results in lower total cost of operation for

truck owner. The system is water and dust proof, has high impact resistant

lens, a bolt retention system for Indian conditions, a distinctive night signature

and has a 5-year warranty against any manufacturing defect.

Innovation 2

This Signalling device was then followed up with another visibility solution,

an ultra-durable, precision light pattern projector with light modules for longer

front visibility, enhancing the braking distance without causing dangerous glare

on road. These modular projector lamps allow the light to be focused more

on the road with less scatter or glare; this prevents blinding other drivers

while adding more light on the road. These are produced in state of the art

metalizing machine with top coat protection for longer life to reduce total cost

of operation over life time. Due to modularisation, it offers variety of styling for

different models of vehicles with least possible time and minimum investments

per model/per OEM customers. Hella came up with these projector modules for front lighting, which involves diffusion and scattering of light by the reflector directly. This results in the higher output of useful light (45% as compared to

conventional paraboloid systems with 27% of useful light).

Benefits

For Innovation 1: For their Innovative LED stop-tail lamps, biggest benefit is improved visibility and signalling on Indian highways. This is a fully sealed unit

with high ingress protection rating. It uses superior materials for true fit and forget durability. The system consumes ~ 80 % lower power costs cheaper

over its lifetime as compared to bulb based rear lamps.

For Innovation 2: Despite 60mm light aperture, it produces excellent light output

with homogeneous illumination. It can be quickly developed at lesser tooling

investment. Development time majorly involves customization as basic projector

modules remain the same. It has more styling options and meets Economic

Commission for Europe (ECE) and Indian Homologation. 90-mm Module, has

an enhanced light output (~60% more light than conventional systems). The

advanced reflector geometry and use of the sturdy H1 bulb (H7 in 90 mm Fog) correspond to the technical standards of lighting in the current headlights for

the automotive industry. The system brings optimized illumination like increased

beam width, longer range, better homogeneity and intensity.

The Future

There is an urgent need to protect the 2-wheeler riders who are involved in

most of the accidents due to reasons

of not being noticed and not having

required visibility. HELLA engineers are presently working on ideas in this

domain and are poised to come up

with another novel solution to prevent

accident for these riders.

ManufacturingMedium Enterprise

PHASE

CHANGE

MATERIALS

MiraCradle® - Affordable device to

treat birth asphyxia

Celsure® - Innovative

temperature control packaging

solution for Pharmaceuticals

Temperature management

of Li-ion batteries

Enabling cold chain in

small trucks

Pluss Advanced Technologies Pvt Ltd. (PLUSS®) is a materials

research and manufacturing company involved in the field of

specialty polymeric additives for enhancing polymer properties and

phase change materials (PCMs) for thermal energy storage.

Founded in 1994, the company has seen tremendous growth in the

recent past. Research and innovation have been the cornerstone

of the company since its inception and are at the very core of

their DNA. The organization welcomes and motivates young minds

and helps them successfully implement their ideas. The company

believes in developing products, which are meaningful and relevant

to the country and the world at large. They feel pride in developing

technologies in-house with indigenous processes; this has enabled

them to put PLUSS® on the world’s innovation map.

The equity infusion in PLUSS® from Tata Capital Innovations

Fund in 2012, has enabled them to expand their team and further

augment their pursuit of consistent innovation.

In line with the brand purpose, they contribute significantly towards

innovative solutions that create a definitive change in the polymers

and thermal energy storage industry, and developing breakthrough

products to meet the current and future needs of the society.

Pluss Advanced Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

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The Innovation

More than 25% of the vaccines go waste globally primarily because of a

broken cold chain. The product Celsure addresses the following problems of

the current cold chain packaging solutions:

temperature excursions in extreme ambient of 40°C, complex conditioning of

the coolants and temperatures observed below 2°C with current coolants.

Celsure uses the save phase change material technology to ensure precise

temperature control for more than 120 hours irrespective of the ambient conditions

(40°C or -5°C). Celsure has simplified the conditioning and packaging reducing the assembly time from 30 minutes to only 5 minutes. Celsure has been tested

as per the Indian ambient conditions of 40°C and higher. It gives a backup of

more than 70 hours’ event when ambient temperatures are 43°C.

Benefits

Celsure has the potential to reduce the vaccine wastages significantly. This could have far reaching impact especially for the child vaccination and immunization

programs. The product has already been adopted by certain pharmaceutical

and logistics companies.

In Celsure no thawing of coolants (PCMs) is required before packing the

box. The PCMs can be placed directly from the freezer, thereby reducing any

chances of human error. It has reduced the assembly time to 5 minutes from

30 minutes.

The Future

The vision of the company is to develop innovative products for a better world.

The idea behind every product they develop is to improve the society at large.

The mission of the company is to develop innovative temperature control

solutions across sectors including healthcare, logistics, refrigeration, HVAC, building/construction and retail.

Manufacturing Micro & Small

Enterprise

Yum! Restaurants (India) Private Limited operates as a subsidiary

of Yum! Brands Inc., which is an American fast food company. A

Fortune 500 corporation, Yum! Offers a bouquet of brands Taco

Bell, KFC, Pizza Hut, and WingStreet worldwide.

Yum! India believes strongly in giving back to local communities,

where its business operates, making a positive difference in the

lives of all its customers, associates, franchisees and their families

which is evident from their initiatives like ‘World Hunger Relief’,

Specially-Abled Restaurants, Green Restaurants etc. Their India

business has been making incredible progress, laying the foundation

for similar emerging markets, where the consumers are likely to

increase manifold in coming years.

KFC, YUM! Restaurants

India Pvt. Ltd.

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The Innovation

Yum! has witnessed successes due to innovation through various initiatives

across food, activations, processes, and internal practices such as:

Chizza- a breakthrough twist for pizza, Smoky Grilled Chicken – an innovation, • which leveraged on the familiarity of grilled, as well as the novelty of smoky,

yet spicy flavours

Watt-a-box, Gamer’s Box – both innovations involving packaging ultimately • engaging the fast, young audience.

More recently they became the pioneers of ‘one-click ordering’ in the quick • service restaurants (QSR) space.

The Approach

In many of their consumer interactions, they encourage their R&D to facilitate

on the spot customization of the products. This allows their consumers to get

a first-hand feel of how the product would come across if it were re-designed based on their inputs – many a times consumers come back realizing the

original build was better or there can be further tweaks. This dynamic method

is typically used for easier to assemble and modify items such as Krushers,

which require a modification of only the flavour syrup.

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Envision Scientific (ES) is a company involved in research,

development and manufacturing of innovative products and methods

for treatment of cardiovascular disease. ES has been pioneering in

the development of nanotechnology based applications. They have

developed a novel polymer free nanocarrier based drug delivery

system.

Their novel technology works in the best interests of their patients,

the treating physicians, and the investors who are attracted by the

promise of further innovation. The essence lies in their working

hard to stimulate a continual stream of innovation in the medical

device industry. The intangible value of their innovation lies in the

improved health of their patients.

Envision Scientific Pvt. Ltd.

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The Innovation

Innovation 1

Due to poor diffusion of drug in drug eluting stents, drug is not properly

transferred in tiny pores of artery. This may be due to the size of drug particle

and its lipophilic properties.

To address this, ES created a drug in nanocrystal and encapsulated with a

unique polymer-free nano-carrier delivering the drug in short time to prevent

restenosis.

Innovation 2

Current biodegradable stents are made of polymers and degrades with

unpredicted time. Stents made with other non-polymeric biocompatible materials

also degrades very fast and fails to provide radial strength to artery. ES have

developed a unique coating material which can protect both polymeric or non-

polymeric stent while maintaining its radial strength.

Note: All the aforesaid innovations have been patented by the company.

Benefits

No stents are available in market which can treat diabetic patients, who are at

high risk after angioplasty. Due to novel coating pattern the product has ultra-

high potential to treat diabetic patients with acute myocardial infraction.

The Future

ES is committed to study, research, innovate and develop novel products in

life-saving devices towards enhancing quality of life for the patients. With their

mission of ‘Advancing Innovation’ ES leads with best innovation practices with protection of IPR, advancement and improvement of technologies.

ServiceMedium Enterprise

Apollo Hospitals with close to 17 years of experience in the field

of telemedicine has created the largest and oldest multi-specialty

telemedicine network in South Asia. As one of the pioneers of

telemedicine across the world, Apollo has always striven to enhance

the access to quality healthcare for communities both in urban and

rural geographies

With the vision of bringing healthcare of international standards

within the reach of every individual, Dr Prathap C Reddy in 1999

established Apollo Telemedicine Networking Foundation (ATNF) and

Apollo Telehealth Services (ATHS). On March 24, 2000, Bill Clinton,

the then US president, commissioned the world's first VSAT enabled

village hospital at Aragonda in Chitoor District of Andhra Pradesh.

This marked the formal introduction of telehealth services in India.

Indian Medical Association (IMA) has declared March 24 as IMA's

National Telemedicine Day to acknowledge telehealth as the most

promising solution to bridge the urban-rural health divide.

Apollo Tele Health Services Pvt. Ltd.

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The Innovation

Innovation 1

Apollo’s new telemedicine programme aims to cater to the healthcare need of population residing in Kaza and Keylong situated at 14000 feet above sea

level in the Himalayan mountain range.

The objective of their new telemedicine program was to create a conducive health

care environment and stabilize patients requiring emergency services before

moving them to secondary or tertiary health care services. With this project

Apollo Remote Healthcare has completed a total of 4801 OP consultations in Kaza and 4071 in Keylong till date and 534 emergency cases were stabilized

through tele-emergency services. 51 patients were screened under tele-cervical

cancer screening, and above 9000 lab tests were provided through tele-

laboratory services.

Innovation 2

Common Service Centres (CSC): CSC scheme has been one of the key pillars

of the ambitious National e-Governance Plan (NeGP) of Government of India.

A CSC is essentially a kiosk with a personal computer, a wireless connection and other equipment.

Apollo Remote Healthcare signed a partnership agreement with the CSCs to enable ‘Primary, Preventive and Promotive health care services through

teleconsultations and telemedicine platform’. The primary objective of this

collaborative partnership is to provide grass root level access points for health

literacy among the communities, develop health seeking behavior and to promote

preventive healthcare services among the rural population.

Innovation 3

e-UPHC – Electronic Urban Primary Healthcare Centre: With this project Apollo Remote Healthcare, have empowered 164 Urban Primary health centres with

on-site Medical Officer along with Paramedical and IT staff; there is also a provision for Specialist tele-consultations & laboratory services.

e-UPHC MAK Project is one of its kind formed by the alliance of best resources from the Government’s end with Apollo Hospitals.

Benefits

For Innovation 1: This programme has

reduced, difficult travel for patients to distant locations seeking health care,

saving effort, time and money.

For Innovation 2: Apollo has been able to quickly connect to 60,000

rural endpoints through the Digital

India programme and help them

become Rural TeleClinics, thereby delivering quality healthcare to the population

seamlessly from their neighborhoods. By enabling remote doctor access through

telemedicine at CSCs, Apollo Hospitals has been able to penetrate geographies, which remained disconnected over a long time.

For Innovation 3: They have touched lives of close to a million people with

more than 2 million footfalls so far. More than 1 lakh people have utilized their

speciality tele-consultations in General medicine, Orthopaedics, Cardiology and

Endocrinology. 2 lakh people have utilized their lab services that offer more than

30 different investigations. 2 lakh Children have been registered for immunization

and 40 thousand pregnant women have registered for ante-natal services.

The Future

They aim at increasing not only the

general consultation but also the

specialist’s consultations by four

folds soon. With CSC they aspire to

reach every nook and corner of India

providing primary healthcare for rural

population.

Service Micro & Small

Enterprise

Agappe Diagnostics Ltd is one of the rapidly growing company in

IVD (in vitro diagnostic) industry in India with a turnover of over

INR 125 Cr.

In India, they have the know-how of making immunoturbidimetry and

nephelometry reagents and their reagent range includes Biochemistry

kits, Serology kits, Immuno-turbidometry kits, Specialized kits,

Coagulation reagents, Haematology reagents and System Reagents

for Closed and Open Systems. They have about 250 different

reagent kits in their product portfolio.

They are being counted as one of the fastest growing and reliable

equipment manufacturer from India for Semi Automated Clinical

Chemistry Analyzer and nephelometry analyser which are exported

globally. These systems are designed, developed and manufactured

in India. Mispa-i3 is the new entrant to their product portfolio.

They are currently exporting to over 55 countries including Africa,

Asia, Middle East, Far East as well as regions in Europe.

They are an ISO 9001- 2008 and ISO 13485:2003 certified Company

under UL. They conform to GMP standards and have an FDA

approved most modern manufacturing facility spread over 120,000

sq. ft. of built up area, which has become the biggest set-up in

IVD manufacturing in India.

Agappe Diagnostics Ltd

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The Innovation

MISPA I3: Specific protein testing is one of the fastest growing segment in the IVD industry; because of the specificity, diagnosis is easy and accurate. Conventionally the testing is performed mainly by photometry analysers or

turbidometry analysers where the sensitivity is one of the major issues. The

gold standard for specific protein estimation is nephelometry. Automated Nephelometry platforms are huge systems marketed by the multinational

Companies with huge investment and recurring cost. In Indian scenario, the

highest number of testing is performed in the Class B, C laboratories, which

number more than 15,000, one third of the total laboratories in India. Due to

high investment cost, most laboratories in India cannot afford an automated

nephelometry platform. The test packs are also large eluding the common

laboratories for an automation.

To address the Indian IVD demand, Agappe designed Mispa -i3, a cartridge based specific protein analyser using the nephelometry. Mispa i3 uses specially designed cartridge for performing tests and thus reduces sampling error.

Because of the cartridge based testing, customer has the flexibility for a single test. Sampling, mixing, incubation and reading are automated. Mispa -i3 is

having smart card calibration to eliminate calibration error and this reduces

the recurring cost for calibration. The size of Mispa -i3 is very small that can

well fit in all laboratory segments in India. Mispa -i3 is also having battery backup to take care of the power issues in the rural areas and can be taken

to field for tests.

Benefits

Accurate results. •

Possibility to perform rare parameters. •

Very low recurring and maintenance cost. •

Affordable system for B, C Class laboratories, where highest number of • testing performed.

Requires less space and suitable even for small laboratories in rural area • and metro cities.

Simple to use software. •

Export possibilities because of price advantage.•

The Future

Cartridge based testing is the new trend, which is revolutionising the IVD industry.

Because of the simplicity in operation, flexibility in testing and high accuracy, these kinds of systems are getting wider acceptance in the industry. At present, cartridge-based systems are mainly present in the specific protein testing and soon, it is expected to expand to other common testing segments also.

Ankur Scientific has been a global leader in the field of Biomass

to Energy solutions since the last 31 years. Ankur Gasifier Systems

use the biomass and agri-waste to produce combustible gas for

thermal applications and power generation. Its equipments are

marketed in more than 40 Countries. In the developing countries,

they help provide energy that is cheap and on-demand, while in the

developed countries, they help make the energy mix greener.

After creating a niche in this segment, Ankur is moving forward

as an innovative leader in the ‘Waste to Energy Solutions’. Ankur

has developed systems for converting various wastes like empty

fruit bunch, palm waste, poultry, tyres, waste currencies, etc. to

energy. It has now launched a unique technology for converting

Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) to energy with minimum separation.

The technology is ideal for distributed approach, small cities &

towns, where no comprehensive solutions are available today.

Ankur is also working with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

for converting faecal sludge to energy and setting up the first

pilot project shortly.

Ankur Scientific Energy Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

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The Innovation

Municipal Solid waste (MSW) poses the major challenge in our urban and

partially, even rural landscapes. MSW collection and management are the most

difficult and expensive tasks for Municipal Corporations across the world and in India. MSW disposal involves centralized landfills calling for huge transport of waste from various parts of the city. This leads to increased environmental and

social degradation. There are hazardous gas emissions resulting in explosions

in landfills thus adversely affecting the ozone layer.

To address this, Ankur has introduced a promising gasification technology, which uses all fractions of MSW without extensive segregation. The process coupled

with composting (biogas plants), ensures that very little goes to landfills. The systems are designed to meet all emissions norms and made in India.

The Approach

Their innovation converts MSW to energy almost online, with minimum

segregation. Ideally the bigger inerts like stones, glass metals, that can be seen

by the naked eye are removed and the small pieces that cannot be seen goes

along with the waste into the gasifier after a trommeling process to remove fines / soil. The waste then gets converted to a gas, which is cooled, cleaned and fed to a gas engine to generate electricity or can also be used for various

thermal / process heat applications.

The Technology would bring multiple benefits like eliminating landfilling, revenue generation through power, reduced transportation costs for collection and

transfer of MSW to the landfill etc.

Benefits

Substantially reduces the waste volume – system ideally results in almost • all waste being processed.

The process generates fertilizer, gas, power etc. •

The solution would be usable in small towns as well as large cities.•

Even for large cities, the solution would allow decentralised waste processing • to minimise transportation and related costs.

It is a very financially viable solution.•

Ashok Leyland is the 2nd largest manufacturer of commercial

vehicles in India, the 4th largest manufacturer of buses, and the

12th largest manufacturers of trucks in the world. Headquartered

in Chennai, its 9 manufacturing plants give them an international

footprint - 7 in India, a bus manufacturing facility in Ras Al Khaimah

(UAE), one at Leeds (UK) and a joint venture with the Alteams

Group for manufacture of high-pressure die-casting and extruded

aluminium components for automotive and telecommunications

sectors. With a well-diversified portfolio across the automobile

industry, Ashok Leyland has recently been ranked as 38th best

brand in India.

While millions of passengers use Ashok Leyland buses to get

to their destinations every day, 7,00,000 trucks from their stable

keep the wheels of the economy moving. With the largest fleet

of logistics vehicles deployed in the Indian Army and significant

partnerships with armed forces across the globe, Ashok Leyland

helps keep the borders secure.

Ashok Leyland Ltd.

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The Innovation

Innovation 1

Their first innovation is indigenous axle mechanisms for lifting auxiliary axles (i.e. CLASSIK-6T pusher) for a multi-axle truck having leaf-spring suspension, to increase the load carrying capacity of the commercial vehicle, improve its

fuel efficiency and enhance the tire life for reducing carbon foot print.

Innovation 2

They have developed an axle mechanism (CLASSIK -NRS) for lifting tag axle of a multi-axle truck having leaf-spring suspensions. This innovation has resulted

in increased fuel efficiency and enhanced tire life for reducing carbon foot print.

Note: All the aforesaid innovations have been patented by the company.

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Cholamandalam Investment and Finance Company Limited (Chola)

was incorporated in 1978 as the financial services arm of the

Murugappa Group. Chola commenced business as an equipment

financing company and has today emerged as the provider of

a bouquet of comprehensive financial services offering vehicle

finance, home loans, home equity loans, SME loans, investment

advisory services, stock broking etc.

Chola operates from 873 branches across India with assets under

management above INR 42,900 Crores. The subsidiaries of Chola

are Cholamandalam Securities Limited (CSEC), Cholamandalam

Home Finance Limited (CHFL) and White Data Systems India

Private Limited (WDSI).

The vision of Chola is to enable its customers lead a better life.

Chola has a growing clientele of over 8 lakh happy customers

across the nation. Ever since its inception and all through its

growth, the company has kept a clear sight of its values. The

basic tenet of these values is a strict adherence to ethics and a

responsibility to all those, who come within its corporate ambit -

customers, shareholders, employees and society.

Cholamandalam

Investment and

Finance Company Ltd.

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The Innovation

Innovation 1

Trucks contribute to 57% of India’s freight traffic. However, the trucking business is affected by unpredictable pricing model with multiple levels of middle-men

aiming at consolidation, lack of working capital to start trips leading to delays

in delivery, high rate of interest and under-utilization of vehicle capacity.

To address these issues, iLoads and Trip-credit as a service were introduced

to the market. iLoads offer demand supply aggregation between the load

providers and truckers in a fragmented and technologically under-penetrated

road transport industry. Further, through trip-credit, it provides credit-limit based

on freight distance rather than asset value.

Innovation 2

From data-entry at customer’s place to instant credit decisions based on

scoring model to disbursement of loan and collections using contact recording

module, LEAP is their second innovation which is an end-to-end integrated platform empowering the feet-on-street workforce, enhancing their productivity,

reducing their time and efforts, delighting the customers by reducing physical

process.

Innovation 3

Technology gives even the quietest user a voice. Being perceived as bottom-of-

pyramid, the trucking community has always had limited technological solutions

to their needs. Meeting most of their requirements involve physical processes

and efforts. The Customer-Facing-App (CFA) loaded with Gaadi Bazaar and Vishesh facilitates their customers and brokers to transact at the press of

a button. PayNow button eases customers from walking to their branches,

e-auction enables selling broker’s stock at higher prices and Vishesh enables

transfer of pre-approved funds.

Benefits

With App based E-POD, and reducing the idle-time of the vehicles on the road, they have helped the truckers, who are typically from the bottom-of-the-pyramid

enter a better life. The increase in their earnings will help them save and invest

more, and more importantly improvise their standard of living.

Vishesh is a game changer in the market that operates out of top-up loans

given to customers, who seek a loan.

Instant payment and receipting in CFA to any time instant pre-approved credit to one touch for participation in an auction conducted pan India, all these

features significantly reduce the time taken by a customer.

They had an increase in the market share across products because of the

improvement in the productivity and having a quicker turnaround time.

Physical to Digital 1

Serving individual Customer to serving the

entire eco-system 2

Product centric to Customer Centric3

Founded in 1991, Cyient provides engineering, manufacturing,

geospatial network and operations management services to

global industry leaders. They deliver innovative solutions that add

value to businesses through the deployment of robust processes

and state-of-the-art technology. Their high-quality products and

services help clients leverage market opportunities and gain the

competitive advantage.

From quieter flights and safer train rides to more reliable energy

supply, they strive to provide comprehensive solutions that help

their clients achieve their operational and business goals. To

them, problems are an opportunity to use their extensive global

experience and industry knowledge creatively to help their clients

do more.

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The Innovation

Innovation 1

Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV): With the changing city infrastructures, the existing applications used by the government departments are not enabled

geospatially and are not automated for general city administrative operations

like Property tax, building permissions, traffic, security, streetlights etc. This results in loss of revenue for the department and increasing unauthorized

constructions. Unique feature of the UAV system is the 3D view of the entire area of interest with different level of details which gives integrated information

for efficient decision support. The model provides details in thematic layers such as Buildings, Parks, Parking Lots, Poles and Roads and enables to

build an efficient decision.

Innovation 2

Holo Eye: The ‘Holo Eye Anatomy’ is a mixed reality application made for Hololens device exclusively. It showcases the mixed reality environment which

is a combination of both augmented reality and virtual reality. It clearly illustrates

the Anatomy of the Human Eye and its inner details with added virtual reality supportability feature.

Innovation 3

One Stop Data Source: Aircraft engine is a complex system with large number of unique parts. Most of information related to specific part or a sub-assembly stays in multiple database servers and it takes lot of time to collect the required

data. Cyient has developed a web based, cutting edge 3D visual framework

for accessing and managing data from multiple data sources used in aircraft

engine product life cycle, called Visual Engine – One stop data source. This

is an active 3D visual tool.

The Approach

For Innovation 1: The innovation 1 talks about an Integrated 3D City GIS

Solution, a web based decision support system that has the Geospatial, IoT

and decision Support capabilities at one place. This solution will Integrate all

the departments with one common platform for effective management of the

information and resources.

For Innovation 2: Holo eye anatomy is a Universal Windows Platform application

that uses the holographic rendering, gaze, gesture and Voice API’s. Interacting with the holograms in mixed reality enables the user to visualize and work with

the digital content as part of the real world.

Benefits

Their Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV/drones) can be used to optimize consumption of fertilizers and pesticides in farming.

The integrated system has a framework

to capture direct feeds from the

traffic servers and cameras with

live streaming. This helps officials

managing the information in an

infrastructure like Command & Control

Centre based on the live data feeds

and system intelligence

Visual engine is helping them in saving

time for data search, data pulling as

well as single source for training and

knowledge management repository.

GMR Hyderabad International Airport Limited (GHIAL) is the first

Greenfield Airport project in India under Public Private Partnership

model of governance. As a JV company, GHIAL was entrusted

to develop, finance, build, operate and maintain Rajiv Gandhi

International Airport-(RGIA at Shamshabad. The airport was

commissioned in a record time of 31 months and commenced

commercial operations in March, 2008. The airport is currently

one of the fastest growing major airports in the country, handling

around 18 million passengers and over 1,35,000 MT of cargo every

year. RGIA is strategically located 25 km from the twin cities of

Hyderabad-Secunderabad on the Bangalore Highway.

The entire airport was constructed with a vision to be environment

friendly. The airport was conceptualized as a world-class facility

benchmarked against the best airports in the world, bringing in

several industry firsts such as integrated airport operations control

center (AOCC), inline baggage screening systems (ILBS), modern

flight information display systems (FIDS), integrated cargo facilities

and many others as first time in the country. Various industry-first

innovations viz. introduction of end-to-end e-boarding, doing away

with hand-baggage stamping, express security check and stamping

free travel for domestic passengers, conversion of taxiway into

runway, Airline Route Profitability Algorithms(ARPA) to increase

cargo revenue etc. – these have become the benchmarks not

only for the airports in India but also across the world.

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Benefits

For Innovation 1: Automation has improved efficiency and led to more throughput and better utilization of airline & security manpower and infrastructure. This

project has been developed with only internal technology/ resource utilization. Had it been outsourced (software), it would have cost around Rs.2.00 crores.

The indirect cost saving benefit to airlines would be approx.. Rs.65.00 lakhs (staff reduction for airlines)

For Innovation 2:

Reduction of Capex investment by approximately Rs.1500 crores.•

No diversion of flights for the airlines • and passengers.

Reduction of holding fuel for airline. •

For Innovation 3:

Moving heavy, oversized and special • cargo made possible with the

introduction of freighters.

Cargo volumes at RGIA grew at • 10.3% CAGR in the last 9 years, higher than country’s CAGR in same period.

International exports grew at 15% • YoY in FY17 and currently growing

at 21% YTD July 2017.

The Innovation

Innovation 1

End to End E-Boarding solution: This automated process promises better

environment by going paperless; better operational efficiency and convenient journey for passengers at RGIA – all these at no additional cost to the passengers. Passenger needs only a smart phone and an Aadhar number to avail this facility; there would be no need to carry any ID proof at the airport.

Innovation 2

Conversion of Taxiway into Secondary Runway: At Hyderabad Airport, Rwy 09R/27L is the primary runway. In case of the non-availability of the main runway, there is no alternative for the aircraft to land and they need to be diverted to

the next airport either at Bengaluru or Nagpur. Hence, maintenance of the main

runway leads to the revenue losses and discomfort to the passengers.

Taking these into the consideration Twy 09l/27R, primarily a taxiway has been converted in to the alternative runway in a phased manner with the innovative

approach. Now the aircraft can operate on the secondary runway in the VFR

conditions and recently Hyderabad airport got approvals for the installation of

the Instrument Landing System (ILS) for the secondary runway. This enables

Hyderabad airport as a nonstop runway operations with the optimal resource

management.

Innovation 3

Airline Route Profitability Algorithm: Historically, freighter connectivity at RGIA has been low (nil till 2010). GHIAL took up the challenge to transform RGIA into logistics hub for India and South-Asia by improving freighter connectivity with the objective to Increase the international freighter frequency at RGIA by 60% over previous year. The following have been the innovation milestones:

Proposals were sent to airlines based on scientific approach on potential • routings with a unique airline route profitability algorithm (ARPA).

Possibly world’s 1st airport to prepare such an algorithm as part of airline • proposal

Godrej Consumer Products Ltd. (GPCL) is a leading emerging markets company. As part of the over 120-year young Godrej Group, they have a proud legacy built on the strong values of trust, integrity and respect for others. At the same time, they are growing fast and have exciting, ambitious aspirations.

Today, Godrej group enjoys the patronage of 1.15 billion consumers globally, across different businesses. In line with their 3 x 3 approach to international expansion at Godrej Consumer Products, they are building a presence in 3 emerging markets (Asia, Africa, Latin America) across 3 categories (home care, personal care, hair care). They rank among the largest household insecticide and hair care players in emerging markets. In household insecticides, they are the leader in India and Indonesia and are expanding their footprint in Africa. They are the leader in serving the hair care needs of women of African descent, the number one player in hair colour in India and Sub-Saharan Africa, and among the leading players in Latin America.

Approximately 23 per cent of the promoter’s holding in the Godrej Group is held in trusts that invest in the environment, health and education. They are also bringing together their passion and purpose to make a difference through their 'Good & Green' approach to create a more inclusive and greener India.

At the heart of all of this, is their talented team. They take much pride in fostering an inspiring workplace, with an agile and high-performance culture. They are also deeply committed to recognizing and valuing diversity across their teams.

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The Innovation

Innovation 1

In bathrooms, the whole category was operating in odour elimination space.

There was a need for a differentiated format and improved fragrance solution

that works towards experience enhancement in bathroom space. Aer pocket is a first-of-its-kind format in the category. It is a paper membrane-based perfume diffusion solution, with differentiated, improved, fragrance options and

convenient usage.

The new innovative format utilizes a gel based technology that is far superior

to the products currently available in the market. More than 85% of the people

who tried the product, end up repeating their purchase, due to the efficacy of the fragrance release (internal third party research)

Innovation 2

According to an A.C. Nielsen study, 85% Indians are aware of dengue, 90% are unaware that dengue-causing mosquitos bite during the day. Only 8%

use repellents during the day and only 1.1% use outdoor solutions. Existing

products were perceived to be ineffective, had bad odor, and a tedious skin

application process.

A 100% natural mosquito repellent applicable on fabrics that provides 8 hours of protection, pediatrician certified, and at a disruptive price of Rs75. It is quick and easy to use – only 4 dots on clothes, enabling habit creation for use of

personal repellents, especially for children.

Innovation 3

India has 986 variants from over 500 deodorant brands. Penetration for the

category, however, stayed stagnant despite substantial advertising spends.

Research suggested that consumers felt the fragrance did not last long, was

not gentle on skin, and costly. A long-lasting, cost-effective, and skin-friendly deo solution was required.

DeoStick is an all-new cream-based deodorant to be applied directly on the

body or clothes. It was 3x longer lasting fragrance, gentle on skin, which is

quickly absorbed, and non-staining. It is priced at an extremely low-cost of

Rs.60 compared to other leading brands.

Benefits

For Innovation 1: The launch of the format doubled the gross profit of the brand within a year and the company’s gross contribution on the brand more than

doubled in this financial year. Within 1 year, brand gained 13% market share in the home air care segment.

For Innovation 2: Children spend a lot of their time out of the home, while

playing in the evening or at school in the morning, they are vulnerable to

mosquito-borne diseases. The ease of use of mosquito repellants applicable on

fabric protects children against the mosquitoes outdoor and the communication

encourages children to play outside without their mothers worrying about deadly

mosquito-borne diseases.

For Innovation 3: The company has gained 2.9 % of the market share after

9 months of its third innovation launch. This product has won the Best Deo

award on Amazon Beauty Awards 2016.

The Future

In 2020, the company aims to reach 10 times the size they were in 2010.

They are making steady progress towards this through international expansion,

innovation, and growing market share. By the year 2020, they are committed

to generate considerably higher size of the workforce, building a greener India

and innovating ‘good’ and ‘green’ products that cater to the bottom-of-the-

pyramid users.

L&T Technology Services Limited (LTTS) is a publicly listed

subsidiary of Larsen & Toubro Limited focusing on Engineering

and R&D Services (ER&D) and addressing global customers

including 52 Fortune 500 companies and 48 of the world’s top

ER&D spenders.

LTTS offers consultancy, design, development and testing services

for the industrial products, medical devices, transportation, telecom

& hi-tech, and the process industries. Digital Engineering portfolio

of LTTS helps build smart products & services and offers smart

manufacturing services and solutions to customers. The company

also offers services and solutions in software engineering,

embedded systems, mechanical & manufacturing engineering,

value engineering and plant & process engineering. Headquartered

in India, LTTS has around 11,000 employees, 12 global delivery

centres in India and overseas, 27 sales offices in India, North

America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia and 34 labs in India

as on March 31, 2017.

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The Innovation

Innovation 1

Design of a motion activated, bi-directional and variable speed screwdriver.

Unique aspects of the screwdriver include:

Innovative adjustable spring clutch•

Unique spindle lock & latch mechanism•

Innovation 2

Optical microscopes: For imaging of large 3-D specimens, capturing the entire

object in focus is usually impossible. To solve the limitation of shallow depth of

field of microscopy, LTTS’ novel technology with extended depth of field includes parallax & illumination corrections and a robust focus selection algorithm. The

in-focus segmentation component ensures good quality images across a large

variety of specimens.

Innovation 3

A complete end-to-end development of smart meters, gateway module, communication protocol and analytics engine for monitoring energy distribution

performance at all levels.

Note: All the aforesaid innovations have been patented by the company.

Benefits

Innovation 1, LTTS has enabled its customers save design and development

time.

Innovation 2 has helped increase profit for the company.

Innovation 3 has given real-time insights into the operations, which enable

reduced theft and downtime enabling significant improvement in revenue collection. The automatic data collection and reporting have reduced manhours

and the company has also bagged tenders worth US$ 2 -3 billion globally.

The Future

LTTS aims to be among the top 10 global engineering services companies in

the world. Their mission is to foster customer delight through a creative and

innovative culture with technology leadership and delivery excellence, while

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NBCC (India) Limited, formerly known as National Buildings Construction Corporation Ltd., is a blue-chip Government of India Navratna enterprise under the Ministry of Housing and Urban Affairs.

The company's present areas of operations are categorized into three main segments, i.e. Project Management Consultancy (PMC), Real Estate Development and EPC Contracting. NBCC has been executing many landmark projects as a PMC which contributes to about 90% of its annual revenue. The segment being the company's core strength, the areas covered under its umbrella include re-development of government properties, roads, hospitals & medical colleges, institutions, offices, airports, bridges, industrial & environmental structures etc.

The real estate segment of the company which came into being in 1988, mainly executing commercial real estate projects, today has undergone a sea change operation wise. keeping pace with the changing business scenario. The present Real Estate Business of the Company could be distinctively viewed falling in two categories based on origin of the projects i.e. one is internally originated & conceptualized projects wherein the company buys land from private and government agencies alike, develops the land and sells it off; while others are sourced from Government wherein, NBCC carries out re-development of Government properties on a model i.e. self-sustaining and does not call for any government funding. The New Motibagh complex, New Delhi under general pool residential accommodation (GPRA) scheme of the Govt. of India is one of the finest examples of such a re-development work in recent times. The project today is certified largest green home complex of its kind in the country.

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The Innovation

Innovation 1

A huge quantity of construction and demolition waste (C&D) is generated in the demolition process. The usual practice is to dispose of such wastes to

unauthorized sites. In order to prevent this unhealthy construction practice,

C&D waste was required to be transformed into recycled products such as

bricks, concrete blocks, pavement blocks etc.

For this C&D waste was crushed with jaw crusher and material was sieved

to achieve fine sand of less than 4.75 micron. Post mixing this material with cement, water and enzymes it was sent to brick moulding machine. Moulded

bricks were cured for 28 days to gain strength.

Innovation 2

This innovation was to reduce the fresh water consumption for construction

process by utilizing treated domestic effluents from urban sewage treatment plant for concrete production. This also helped reducing CO2 emissions and

contributed towards green environment.

The application of treated domestic effluent is an alternative to fresh water for curing of concrete mix production of high water-cement ratio. The improved

process, attributed to the pore filling effect concomitant to the deposition of suspended and dissolved solids present in effluent water for evolution of enhanced construction practices.

Benefits

For Innovation 1: Zero requirement for the disposal of construction and

demolition wastes without any initial financial investment by NBCC (India) Limited. This process ensures less wastes ending up in landfills, increased longevity and reduced costs. Hence, a saving of transportation and processing

fees approximately amounting to Rs.7 Crore was achieved.

For Innovation 2: The use of treated effluent (TE) curing compound helped enhancing performance in terms of strength development and surface

imperviousness.

The Future

Their mission is to be a leading company, with high brand equity in construction

business, offering sustainable, innovative and cost effective construction products

and services contributing to national wealth, upholding responsibility for the

environment, and promoting well-being of all stakeholders including employees,

customers, shareholders and society.

Ramani Precision Machines (P) Ltd., a Punjab based business

entity is the recipient of prestigious National Award from the Prime

Minister of India, as an outstanding small scale industry, for the

year 1998. The company is primarily engaged in the manufacturing,

supplying and exporting of industrial machines like automatic fillet

rolling machines, automatic caulking machines, automatic wire

winding machines, spring coiling machines, gang drilling machines

and many more. In addition to this, the company has set a strong

foothold in the regions of India, Germany, United Kingdom, Dubai

etc. Recently, they have become a channel partner of Yaskawa

Robots, Japan.

The projects, undertaken by them, are implemented with efficiency,

speed & economy adhering to the time schedule. Their products and

services are widely supplied to automotive industry, air conditioning

industry, lighting industry, mass production machining, materials

testing, material handling and transfer systems engineering. They

are working for the development of special purpose machines for

American as well as Japanese organizations, who are setting up

their new projects in India. They are constantly striving to establish

and maintain long-term relationship with their esteemed clients.

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Machines Pvt. Ltd.

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The Innovation

They work towards developing machines for various manufacturing processes.

Every machine they developed is packed with several new technologies,

ensuring high output, fool proofing, consistency of quality and with economical costing.

The Approach

The company is providing customized solutions for their customers. They

indulge in discussions with their customers and then design the solutions, and

manufacture and supply to them.

With their own developed technologies, they are not required to pay any royalty

/ fees to any technology provider. This makes their profitability quite sound. Many multinational companies are purchasing special equipment’s developed

from them.

Benefits

Their special equipments are for fast production. They have developed certain

machines, which have cycle time of 2.5 seconds only.

With their attributes of high quality designs & manufacturing, they have earned

a good reputation in India & abroad. Their company has seen increase in their

market share compared to others.

Sahajanand Technologies Pvt. Ltd. (STPL) is engaged in developing

cutting edge technological solutions for the diamond industry. STPL

is one of the very few global companies that offer total technology

solutions for diamond manufacturing, including diamond analysis

and planning, laser processing, laser blocking and polishing and

safe diamond trading.

As a trendsetter of the industry, STPL pioneered the laser diamond

cutting technology in India. Today, the advanced technological

solutions offered by STPL leverage the promising laser technology,

vision technology and ensure higher productivity at lesser costs.

The solutions focus on optimizing automation and eliminating

the resource consuming & less reliable finishing operations. The

company also offers wide range of variants of its product to suite

diverse needs and budgets. Sound technological competence and

value driven approach have put STPL on the global map of diamond

processing industry. At STPL, engineering excellence is merged

with core values of quality, safety, integrity and responsibility.

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Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

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The Innovation

Innovation 1

Laser Blocking System -Rough gemstone are processed through various stages

of operations for obtaining polished diamond. Previously, laser was used to cut

the gemstone for obtaining round shape and facets were made on the gemstone

by using polishing wheels. One polishing wheel was consumed for processing

100 diamonds, moreover it was less precise and suffered poor productivity.

STPL started using laser for both the processes. Hence, their production

improved and process time was reduced. They automated their entire process

by working on CAD-CAM, therefore increasing accuracy and yield.

Innovation 2

OptiCent System- The gemstone is mounted manually on a holder by the

operator by repetitive hammering at the required position. This reduced the

value of polished diamond and had more process errors. Their innovation is

the amalgamation of mechanical with image processing techniques as well as

artificial intelligence, wherein the gemstone gets robotically positioned to its required place so that further processing on it can be started quicker. Also, the positional accuracy is much better than conventional techniques.

Innovation 3

Accurate parametric values are required to extract high-quality polished diamond from a rough gemstone. While setting these values into a laser cutting machine,

human error significantly reduces the quality and size of the processed diamond. Also, the topographical data, which are not available to the operator, results into inaccurate guessing of process parameters in conventional techniques

Their third innovation addresses the process of measuring the actual

topographical data of the rough diamond and the cutting process itself. This

eliminates wastage of time and diamonds. The planer data i.e. the coordinates

are automatically transferred from planer machine to laser machine without any

human intervention.

Benefits

The error rate reduced to 5% (maximum) with the use of the new process. • Hence, the accuracy improved.

Due to process improvements at the initial stages, production throughput • has increased by up to 40%.

By their continuous efforts in innovation, they are able to reduce material • loss by more than 4%. (i.e. several thousand carats of diamonds saving).

The Future

STPL continues its journey towards the vision set for itself by its founder. Soon,

robotic automation is likely to move the

Indian diamond industry swiftly setting

new benchmark for methodologies,

especially for cutting processes.

Siemens Healthcare’s (SH) aims to increase value for the healthcare

providers by developing precision medical devices, transforming

care delivery, and improving patient experience, all enabled by

digitalizing healthcare.

An estimated five million patients globally benefit every day

from their innovative technologies and services in the areas

of diagnostics and therapeutic imaging, laboratory diagnostics

and molecular medicine, as well as digital health and enterprise

services.

They are a leading medical technology company with over 170

years of experience and 18,000 patents globally. With more than

48,000 dedicated colleagues in over 70 countries, they are poised

to innovate and shape the future of healthcare.

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The Innovation

High-cost medical imaging systems break down if the environmental conditions

(such as temperature, humidity, power supply) are not maintained within specified levels. Presently, customers of these systems find it difficult to ensure the environmental conditions at desired levels. This results in increased downtime

of equipment and costs for spare parts.

SH’s environment monitoring system uses IoT and cloud technologies to monitor

different subsystems of medical equipment such as HVAC, helium compressor, chiller, power, humidity, battery back-up. Alerts are sent to their customers when environmental conditions go out of range. Advanced analytics help proactively identify effective steps to ensure minimal breakdowns.

Benefits

The environment monitoring system has resulted in reduction in onsite efforts of

service engineers. The environmental data collected are used to help healthcare

provider optimize air-conditioning within the hospital/clinic/diagnostic centre to reduce power consumption while improving conformance to recommended

environmental conditions.

The reduction in downtime and associated requirement of spares grossly

improve the customer satisfaction and patient throughput thus adding to the

bottom line for the healthcare providers.

Established in 2015, SKYi is a polymeric raw material manufacturer

founded by technocrats on two important pillars of innovation and

sustainability. The vision of the company is to become a global

technology leader and a solution provider for polymeric materials

for a greener planet. They have over 10 patents specifically in

the field of long fiber thermoplastics (LFT) manufacturing and

products, die-manifold and preheating systems, which are covered

under individual patents of Dr. Sachin Jain, MD. They also have

flexi-line with patented die design to produce long carbon fiber

composites. Globally, they have one of the largest fully functional

and automatized LFT production line. SKYi has the capability to

produce LFT with various sizes & continuous strands for different

applications.

Average age of people at SKYi is 27 years thus resulting in young

and energetic workforce. They have 25% women in R&D, HR and

other departments with over 100 years of combined experience

and 20% workforce in R&D with PhD and M.Tech/MS focusing

on innovation. They also received ‘Excellence Award’ as ‘Fastest

growing company’ by the International Achievers Conference and

Gold Trophy by PLASTINDIA foundation for ‘Innovative Polymer

Materials’.

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The Innovation

LFT composites are 5 times lighter than steel, 2.5 times lighter than aluminium

and up to 30% lighter than conventional engineering plastics, while offering same

or even better mechanical, thermal, dimensional stability and extremely high creep

resistance. This makes it a unique class of material to be used in light-weight

applications for automotive and other industries such as building & construction,

white goods appliances etc. This innovative material is not only light-weight, but has

high corrosion resistance along with extremely high chemical and environmental

stress resistance. The material is easily recyclable, and more environmentally friendly

than conventional materials such as metals or thermoset polymer based FRPs.

Component manufacturing process is easy to scale and quick; hence, having high

energy efficiency and low emission compared to FRP, BMC and metal off course. Due to EMI shielding ability and electrically insulating properties, thermoplastic

composites are becoming popular in electric vehicles.

SKYi LFT is the 3rd generation of LFT’s which overcomes the limitations of the

previous generations by ensuring every single fibre is impregnated by polymer, providing uniform mechanical properties and dimensional stability viz. less

warpage, better creep, uniform shrinkage etc. It also ensures that the screws

and barrels are protected from direct contact with the abrasive glass fibre.

Their proprietary manufacturing process makes them the only company in India

with the ability to produce LFT thermoplastic composites without any dependencies.

Their patents on die design enable them produce consistent and superior quality

products at high speeds. Their product patent portfolio also enables them to

make customized products and provide specific need based solutions.

The Approach

SKYi’s innovation aims at developing highly light weight and cost effective

alternative material which would cater to the needs of latest vehicle manufacturing

norms (e.g.: Euro 6 norms) as well as potential replacement for metals. It will help

meet various regulations on emissions, safety and crash worthiness, NVH, fuel

economy etc. in the design and development of new generation vehicles.

LFT, in the form of granules or tapes are becoming popular:

to replace high performance and highly expensive polymers –

to replace metals or thermoset composites by improving thermal as well –

as mechanical performance

in all crash relevant applications, where traditionally plastics were not –

considered

Their customer centric innovation strategy works on 3 fronts:

Customer requirements

and applications based

Market trends and

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Fundamental research

Joint development with

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Benefits

More than 50% weight reduction in metal to plastics and 20% further weight • reduction potential by replacing conventional engineering plastics.

25% improvement in production efficiency and lower carbon footprint during • production and use.

Resistance to corrosion and chemicals, making it durable in applications • such as consumer appliance, construction and plumbing specially in

aggressive environment.

Possibility of 3R’s (recycle, reuse and reduce the waste) at the end of life • cycle.

Lower manufacturing cost of parts as it uses simple and fast injection moulding • process, which is very efficient in terms of time, energy (electricity and heat), and low/no emission compared to thermoset curing.

The Future

There is an urgent need to reduce

weight in transportation mode (electric

vehicles, fossil fuel based) to improve

fuel efficiency, reduce emission and lower the carbon footprint. Safety

in every aspect requires materials,

which are human friendly and can

be embedded with digital mediums.

Metal being thermally and electrically

conductive cannot be used. LFT

composites offers freedom of design

and flexibility to product designers to come up with affordable solutions to

counter the challenges.

Sohan Lal Commodity Management Pvt Ltd (SLCM) is a global

post harvest Agri-Logistics Group. It is an ISO 9001: 2015, ISO

22000: 2005, ISO 33000, ISO 14001:2015 & OHSAS 18001:2007

certified company. The Group provides one-stop solution to the end

user with diversified portfolio of services ranging from Warehouse

Management, Agriculture Financing, and Collateral Management

to Procurement. SLCM warehouse management is equipped with

technology to offer storage and protection services for the entire

range of agri-commodities. SLCM has been handling more than

873 agri commodities including Cotton, Barley, Bajra, Castor Seeds,

Wheat, Pulses, Maize, Spices, Aloe Vera, etc. across India. As on

30th June 2018, SLCM manages a technology enabled network of

more than 2850 warehouses and 19 cold storages pan India with

a total capacity of over 9.33 million MT spread over 48.86 million

sq. ft. and throughput of more than 675.41 million MT.

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Management Pvt. Ltd.

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The Innovation

Innovation 1

AGRI REACH (patent pending) is as an algorithm which combines series of processes, audits and Real-Time tracking of facilities to give error free results

with reduced risks of crop damage. It results in saving losses by 9.5 percent

of INR 1,00,000 crore as per industry standards.

Innovation 2

KISSANDHAN: Post the slowdown of 2008, there has been a significant decline in agriculture sector. The government has laid down plans and taken initiatives to

sustain development wherein ensuring institutional credit to farmers is of utmost

importance. This is the problem, which Kissandhan, (SLCM)’S Non-Banking

Financial Company wants to address through collateral financing. SLCM has developed methods that help farmers avail a loan against their crop through

their wholly owned subsidiary Kissandhan. This not only ensures improved

incomes to the farmers, but also provides them the facilities of crop storage

till they are ready to sell off their products.

Innovation 3

SLCM LTD. Myanmar: Company changed the paradigm of Warehousing &

Financing in Myanmar, where collateral based lending was limited to mostly

land holdings. Myanmar Banks have now included key agricultural goods

as collaterals; this has been a landmark achievement for a foreign company

entering an international domain. In comparison to India, Myanmar experiences

a post-harvest loss of 30-35% of its total agri-produce annually. SLCM Ltd. aims

to provide innovative and affordable range of services to agri & warehousing

sector in Myanmar while substantially reducing the food wastage.

The Approach

SLCM manages all their warehouses without investing in infrastructure. They

have developed processes that enable farmers reduce agri-wastage by 9.5 per

cent of during the post-harvest period and tied up with farmers, intermediaries,

joint liability groups, SMEs, processors, traders, commodity exchanges to

government.

Benefits

SLCM has devised a SOP, which

amalgamates technology with agri

domain expertise and allows SLCM

to operate any warehouse agnostic to

infrastructure, location, weather pattern

across any kind of agriculture crop.

It has also applied for patenting this

scientific technology of storage under the name of “AGRI REACH”.

The Group also has a whol ly

owned NBFC in India christened as

"Kissandhan" which has changed

the paradigm of collateral financing by financing across diversified agri products whilst being agnostic to balance sheet or net worth of the borrower

yet complying with the prudential norms of RBI.

The Future

SLCM envisions being the preferred agro service provider across all agriculture

value chains with a presence in every geo-climatic region of the world. SLCM

Group has strong plans to foray into ASEAN countries like Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos. Also, the company is rigorously looking at the African commodity market. The post harvest

losses in all these countries are more

than 25%. Moreover, these countries

face the same systematic agriculture

problems as India does.

AGRI REACH

Defined SOPs to check the Quantity &

Quality of the crop agnostic to

Infrastructure, Geography &

Weather Pattern

On-ground Implementation

Devising Frontend / Backend Techniques

Forensics with Constant, Real Time &

Concurrent Monitoring with 79

Internal Audits

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Exigency Algorithms to monitor crop with

Defined TATs & Escalation Matrix

Periodical Review & Updation of Processes

Tata Hitachi Construction Machinery Company Private Limited,

the leader in construction equipment in India, aims to enhance

the operational performance of its customers, leading to

improved profitability and competitiveness by offering constructive

solutions.

Tata Hitachi is a subsidiary company of Hitachi Construction

Machinery Co. Ltd., which holds 60% share and Tata Motors Ltd.

holding 40%.

Tata Hitachi is focused on capitalizing the opportunity in the

domestic arena for which the key market segments are excavators,

wheeled products, cranes and others. Tata Hitachi’s consistent

growth and success have been built on the foundation of the

company’s ability to understand customers’ needs and provide

equipment alongside support solutions that increase profitability

and competitiveness.

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of a 37-ton class excavator and the undercarriage of a 47-ton class excavator.

The new model is named “Zaxis400MTH”.

Benefits

For Innovation 1: Due to enhanced productivity achieved with the new process,

there has been a saving in production cost of gears to the tune of Rs.3.7 million

per year, which has increased the profit margin of the company. Operators find it more convenient and comfortable to operate a machine without coolant than

a machine with coolant since the liquid coolant sometimes spills and splashes,

causing inconvenience.

For Innovation 2: Load sensing

technology and CAN bus technology ensure that each aggregate of the

machine functions optimally with

respect to the load, resulting in

optimum fuel consumption. While fuel

consumption of their machine is 16 to

17 LPH, for competitors’ machines it

is 19 to 20 LPH.

For Innovation 3: Sale of Zaxis400MTH

is likely to push their market share up

by about 3% in the 30 to 40-ton class

excavators. The increase in profit is expected to be up to 20%.

The Innovation

Innovation 1

The gear manufacturing shop of their company had difficulty meeting the production demand. The bottleneck was the gear grinding capacity, augmenting,

which meant additional investments of approximately Rs.10.5 crore. A solution needed to be worked out to increase the production volumes with maximum

additional investments of approximately Rs.4.00 crore.

A new process, “Fast Finish Hobbing” for gear manufacture was innovated through major modifications of the existing processes. The new process yielded better quality gears with shorter manufacturing lead time. With an additional

investment of about Rs.4.00 crore in the gear shop, the higher production

target could be met. In the new process, cutting speed up to 500 m/minute could be attained. This reduced the hobbing time by 60% while still maintaining

the required gear accuracy and surface finish. This also eliminated the gear grinding process, which has reduced the man-hours requirement in the gear

manufacturing shop by 25%.

Innovation 2

In Reach Stacker machine (container handler), fault diagnostics is a challenging

activity since functioning of many critical aggregates are interlinked electronically.

In case of machine breakdown, pinpointing the error and reducing downtime is

the main objective of service staff. A user-friendly electronic system was required for easy diagnosis. A diagnostic system has been designed by the company with a master controller communicating with all major aggregates through CAN bus system. It includes load measurement, load sensing and data logging

and it is displayed on a single touch-screen monitor; no other reach stacker

manufacturer in India offers such systems controlled from a single monitor.

Innovation 3

Their market share in 37-ton class excavators fell mainly for poorer durability of

undercarriage parts (mainly track chain) in hard applications like granite quarries.

Design modifications and quality improvements in the undercarriage parts helped to a limited extent. A major idea was needed to improve undercarriage life.

Rather than improving the individual components of the undercarriage, the

company innovated a different solution by creating a “hybrid” machine. A new excavator was designed by combining the upper structure and attachments

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Tata Power Delhi Distribution Limited (Tata Power-DDL) is a joint

venture between Tata Power and the Government of NCT of Delhi

with the majority stake being held by Tata Power Company (51%).

Tata Power-DDL distributes electricity in North & North West parts

of Delhi and serves a populace of 7 million. The company started

operations on July 1, 2002 post the unbundling of the erstwhile

Delhi Electricity Supply Undertaking (DESU). With a registered

consumer base of 1.6 million and a peak load of around 1852

MW (June 2017), the company's operations span across an area

of 510 sq kms.

Tata Power-DDL has been the frontrunner in implementing power

distribution reforms in the capital city and is acknowledged for

its consumer-friendly practices. Since privatization, the Aggregate

Technical & Commercial (AT&C) losses in Tata Power-DDL areas

show an impressive reduction of around 84% from an opening

loss level of 53% in July 2002.

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Benefits

For Innovation 1: Multifunctional sensor developed for energy meters has helped

in curbing the menace of electricity theft and led to generation of additional

revenues of INR 7.00 Crores per annum. It has also resulted in savings of

man-hours lost on account of identifying and booking theft cases including

collection of evidence tenable in legal forums.

For Innovation 2: Cable life enhancement by silicone has helped the organization

in recurring capital saving of INR 9.00 Crores per annum. The operational

efficiency has increased improving the reliability indices.

For Innovation 3: Abha has been a social innovation model, which not only resulted in financial savings (reduction of AT&C loss, enhanced billing & collection efficiency, and creating safe environment for the public) to the organization but also impacted the lives of women from the slum clusters.

The Future

The cable life enhancement technique has the potential of replication across

power distribution utilities in the country resulting in national savings of INR

500 Crores per annum.

A team from World Bank visited Tata Power-DDL to study the social innovation model with a view to implement the same in a few countries facing similar

problems.

The Innovation

In an environment where power distribution utilities across the country are

reeling under heavy losses and experiencing acute power shortages, Tata Power-

DDL has consistently over achieved its targets and scripted an unprecedented

turnaround story.

Innovation 1

In this digital world, power thefts are carried out using advanced instruments,

which either disturb accurate energy measurement or damage meters permanently

without leaving any physical evidence of tampering resulting revenue losses.

Faced with such a scenario, Tata Power-DDL in collaboration with Omron Corp.,

Japan has developed multifunctional sensor, which is capable of capturing

events for all tampering with energy meters.

Innovation 2

Lack of dedicated corridor for utility network resulted in external damages

and untimely failure in Tata Power-DDL cable network. These damages led

to moisture ingress and further failure reducing cable life by 8-10 years. Tata

Power-DDL has developed product and process based on extensive research

and experimentation for life enhancement of installed cable at highly economical

cost. They utilized in-house domain knowledge and developed chemical solution

for cable treatment by silicone resulting in cable life enhancement.

Innovation 3

Reducing Aggregate Technical and Commercial (AT&C) losses in slums was extremely difficult with challenges like theft, non-co-operative attitude, political intervention etc. Hence, it was considered essential to maintain close connect with

entire consumer base (1.7 million) of slum clusters in Tata Power-DDL licensed

area. Tata Power-DDL designed a unique program where 741 women (Abha) from slums were identified, groomed and made their brand ambassadors. These Abhas were then engaged as intermediaries,

who work to curb electricity theft, help

the residents file complaints, and resolve other electricity connection related issues.

This social and financial empowerment has helped them gain huge respect from

family and society.

Tata Steel Group is among the top global steel companies with

an annual crude steel capacity of 27 million tonnes per annum

(MTPA) as on March 31, 2018. It is the world's second-most

geographically-diversified steel producer, with operations in 26

countries and a commercial presence in over 50 countries. The

Group recorded a consolidated turnover of US $20.41 billion (INR

133,016 crore) in FY18. Tata Steel Group is spread across five

continents with an employee base of nearly 74,000.

Tata Steel was felicitated with several awards including the Prime

Minister’s Trophy for the best performing integrated steel plant for

2014-15 and 2015-16, Best Risk Management by CNBC TV18 (2018)

and ‘Corrporate Strategy Award’ by Mint (2018). The Company

also received the ‘Most Ethical Company’ award from Ethisphere

Institute for the sixth time (2018), Steel Sustainability Champions

(2017) by the World Steel Association, Dun & Bradstreet Corporate

Awards (2017 & 2018), Golden Peacock HR Excellence Award

by Institute of Directors (2017) as well as 'Asia's Best Integrated

Report' award by the Asia Sustainability Reporting Awards (2017),

among several others.

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The Future

The system can be deployed in other steel making shops existing in India and

abroad. The concept can also be used in industries beyond Steel making e.g.

Aluminium, Copper and Zinc. In the long term, the raking system could be upgraded to an automated raking installation.

The Innovation

The innovation is centred on the design, development, installation and

commissioning of an intelligent “Smart Raking System”. The system uses

Infrared camera with image processing capability that could cut down the

losses and optimized amount of slag that could be skimmed away. This has

been implemented in the Steel Making Shop of Tata Steel and is the “first of its kind’” in India.

During steel making, a thick layer of floating slag is formed on the surface of the steel meniscus. This layer, if left alone, would adversely affect properties

of the final product. The conventional practice involved a manual process to rake (skim) the slag. While the manual practice led to losses, the innovative

raking system has overcome this limitation.

The Approach

Various challenges and the approach to overcome them are enumerated

below:

Environment Heat: It was resolved by utilizing direct and indirect cooling. • This has been tried for the first time.

Dust: A pneumatic shutter installed in in-front of the camera, preventing the • dust to settle on the win-dow. A pressurized horn is installed in front of the enclosure window to prevent dust emanating due to the raking process.

Unhindered view: During skimming, undesirably, boom came within view • of the camera, giving wrong result. This was overcome by installing an

encoder to track movement of the boom, and to know when the boom

was out of the view of the camera.

Benefits

After implementation, this system has been able to generate savings through reduction in iron yield loss. This has enabled improve productivity and raking

time, and reduced heat loss to the environment. One of the major benefits has been the improvement in quality of the high strength steel grades for the

automotive sector. The number of complaints that were attributed to the slag

entrapment in steel has reduced drasti-cally. For the first time in India, a smart raking system has been designed, developed and implemented. The novelty

lies in the use of Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing techniques to separate the slag and steel. The yield went up by 21%.

Windcare India Private Ltd is a pioneer in delivering innovative

service solutions to the wind power industry. Started in the year

2001, Windcare has been a one-stop solution for any intriguing

technical challenge faced by the wind power industry in India

and abroad.

Mr. S. Anthonyraj Prem Kumar, its founder and Managing Director

has been instrumental in the design, development and hands-on

execution of an exclusive technology for de-erection and re-erection

of wind turbine components without the use of heavy-duty cranes.

Before Windcare’s Innovation, the conventional method for de-

erection and re-erection of wind turbines components involved

use of expensive heavy-duty cranes.

Their extensive research brought a revolution in the industry by

pushing down the maintenance cost of turbines by about 50%,

a boon for wind farm owners. They are well positioned to handle

complete operation and maintenance services for wind parks.

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Benefits

More than 85% savings in the project cost.•

80% reduction in process execution time.•

Carbon emission reduced by 97% in terms of transportation fuel consumption • and pollution.

Deterioration of the cultivated area near wind turbine reduced.•

Reduced the customer’s compliance formalities for pathway and • transportation.

Suitable for any terrain and any capacity of wind turbines.•

The Future

They are working to enhance their standards and improve their technology

consistently to suit the requirements of various countries to capture the overseas

markets, where they have not yet penetrated with their technology.

The Innovation

Their innovation arose from the pressing need to greatly reduce the cost of

the conventional method involved in the operation & maintenance cost of wind

turbine generators (WTG)s such as mobilization, transportation of counterweights,

overhead power lines, huge fuel consumption due to the large numbers of

trucks involved, time for execution, hill station pathway, road traffic etc.

Their innovative technology includes the method of removing and lifting a

single blade from a rotor hub of the wind turbine. This technology lessens the

problems associated with the conventional method of using large cranes.

The Approach

Windcare has indigenously designed and manufactured lifting tools and its

respective processes for replacement of WTG accessories without the use of

heavy duty cranes. This is done based on calculated and proven technical

reviews, design guidelines pertaining to international engineering standards

and specific customer requirements and is validated by competent academic institutes/engineers.

Quality assurance, environmental protection and safety control measures are the

parameters, which have made their ideas a great success. Regular experience

sharing as well as basic and on-going training promotes the awareness of their

employees at all levels allowing them to act competently and responsibly.

Wipro Limited has been a leading global information technology,

consulting and business process services company. They

have been working in the areas of cognitive computing, hyper-

automation, robotics, cloud, analytics and emerging technologies

to help their clients adapt to the digital world. As a company

recognized globally for its comprehensive portfolio of services,

strong commitment to sustainability and good corporate citizenship,

they have over 1,60,000 dedicated employees serving clients

across six continents.

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Benefits

Innovation 1 (Data Discovery Platform) has supported company’s clients with

reduced total cost of ownership (TCO) and development efforts. It also supports

citizen services for customers in healthcare, transportation and utilities.

Innovation 2 (Smart i-Connect Platform) has resulted in increased profitability for the company and increased service satisfaction level of the company’s

clients and helped them reduce cost of

operations. Operation & maintenance

cost reduction to the tune of 30%

could be achieved for smart cities/campuses. The system would cost

20-30% lower as it is based on Open

Source & Open Architecture compared to the prevalent systems based on

proprietary technology.

Innovation 3 (Open Innovation Process)

has empowered company’s clients

with improved time to production,

access to emerging tech, de-risked

adaption. It has also increased

company’s customer & ecosystem

engagements.

The Innovation

Innovation 1

Data Discovery Platform: A full-stack analytics platform, which consumes analytics in service model and supports data-driven culture in organizations.

Comprises 20+ pre-built Data Models, 100+ re-usable KPIs, 45+ clients –

globally.

Innovation 2

Smart i-Connect Platform: An IoT data aggregation and integration platform, which manages/monitors OT/IT devices, networks & applications end-to-end for smart cities, mining, seaports, airports, agriculture, logistics and more.

Comprises over 87 built-in industrial protocols, 3000+ customer devices –

monitored in real-time and 100% customizable modules.

Innovation 3

Open Innovation Process: This involves working with stakeholders [startups, academia, Wipro Ventures, Horizon Program, Crowdsourcing Models (Topcoder),

Expert Networks and M&A].

The Approach

For Innovation 1: Wipro’s approach to innovation is across business units and is

broad-based and decentralized. The Data Discovery Platform is developed as an

end-to-end analytics platform which enables reusability, flexibility and modularity across industries.

For Innovation 2: The operations of the cities and campuses are fragmented

with various independent functions. This calls for a platform to collect seamless

data timely decision making. The Smart i-Connect platform integrates various

independent systems through a data aggregation layer on a scalable and

modular basis.

For Innovation 3: The approach harnesses innovation within the ecosystem and

the organization and delivers impactful solutions to customers. The processes

have been evolved through various engagements and experience gained over

time.