to introduce State-of-the-Art solutions in the priority sector. By tie-ups with world leaders in respective fields, it has continued to benefit almost every segment of the core industry from Power, Steel, Mines and Petrochemicals to Refinery, Fertilizers, Cement, Refractories, Shipbuilding, Railways, Defence, Ports, Aviation and Airports by bringing in a wide range of sophisticated testing, preventive and predictive maintenance equipment and in turn helping to achieve dramatic cost as well as efficiency improvements. PC/'s tie-ups with some of the word's leading companies like SEBA GmbH, B&K Vibro-Germany/Denmark, Catu-France Electro Industries Gauge have helped us to

Its impressive range of hi-tech products includes fully automatic and Robotic pick and place systems: manual, semi-auto or auto-feed, pass-thru screen printers, dual wave soldering systems, reflow ovens, automatic dispensers, automatic cleaners for screens / stencils and PC boards in circuit / functional testers, component insertion machines, assembly tools, quality control instruments, hand-held soldering machines using self regulative skin effect technology, soldering/ de-soldering systems for repair / rework / small batch production, flip chip bonding solution, automatic inspection and measurement systems.

real good impetus for the growth of this vital sector.

What, according to you, is needed more, to improve the overall performance of this sector?

The reform process must continue with accelerated pace to eliminate roadblocks in the way of FDI's in this vital sector of our economy. We must bring in as much decontrol as possible and the govt. must exhibit a strong political will to ensure that central or state level policies do not come in the way of modernisation and growth of this sector. The lesser the governmental controls and interference, the faster and bigger will be the growth of this sector as has been the case with IT and Telecom sectors.

collaborator or foreign partner can be expected to have the latest and the most advanced technical product line for such a diverse range of portfolio as we have.

You have technical collaboration with many technically competent companies from Europe, USA, Canada, Far East etc. How were you benefited from these separate technical collaborations?

Separate technical and marketing collaborations

simultaneously grow with a diversified base and to bring the latest of advancements in all these different fields from different parts of the world to our country for modernisation and expansion of our core sector. No single

Your guiding principle had always been "Think Global, Act local". Does it mean localization of high technology through technical collaborations with global companies?

Absolutely. Our efforts have always been to adapt latest global technologies to local conditions for local applications for the benefit of the core sectors of our economy and we are very happy for whatever success we got in the process over the last two decades.

Many of your products are high- technology products, which need a timely and quality service back- up for your customers. How do you maintain that?

After Sales Service has always been our serious focus without which it would not have been possible for us to have such a large satisfied customer base and several repeat orders from virtually each and every customer of ours. We have a large service team all across the country with a lot of our

"Our efforts have always been to adapt latest global technologies to local conditions for local applications for the benefit of the core sectors of our economy..."

service engineers having been trained abroad. Also, all our service centres are well equipped to provide best possible after sales services to our valued customers.

It appeared to me that the infrared predictive maintenance products like ThermaCAM TM series of products can find versatile application in almost any industry. How is the response you got so far about this range of products from your prospects and target customers?

The use of infrared echnology is growing by leaps and bounds with more and more possibilities emerging virtually every day. The response for our range of products based on infrared is extremely good from all across. Be it power or steel or petroleum or cement or fertiliser or medical or space or shipping or security etc. etc. Our supplied thermo vision cameras are being used for increasingly large number of varied applications including for monitoring