In its endeavor, PCI has tied up with leading European and American companies like ATF GmbH, Germany, Finerech GmbH, Germany, Loetec GmbH, Germany etc.
PCI’s Power Conditioning Division is engaged in marketing and after sales service of high performance Uninterrupted Power Supply Systems ranging from 500VA to 1670 KVA with static Apostar series ranging from 800KVA and the Dynamic Unblock ranging from 150 to 1670 KVA. PCI, in tie-up with

Piller GmbH, Germany, a world Leader in UPS Systems since 1909, has brought to India a wide array of UPS Systems which are extremely suitable for a vast range of applications such as: Computers, medical, telecommunication, business and industrial applications.

PCI, together with Piller, the world leader in Rotary UPS Systems (UNIBLOCK), has come up with a revolutionary battery-less UPS. This has been made possible by coupling the power bridge (energy wheel) together with UNIBLOCK or TRIBLOCK. Also, Pilier-PCI has brought to the Indian Industry, a newera of power conditioning with a concept of onsite power improvement using powerformers, UNIBLOCK /TRIBLOCK

Powerbridge and APOTRANS Switches, a technology which is the latest even in the most advanced countries of the world.

PCI is also actively marketing in India, the 50 Hz. to 60 Hz. frequency converters and 50 Hz. to 400 Hz. Ground Power Supply Systems produced by Piller. These have wide applications in the areas of vital interest for the Indian Defence Services as well as for the Civil Aviation sector. With the help of a dedicated team of sales and service engineers, this Division has not only made forays in the Indian market, but is also geared up to become a market leader.

satellite launches by ISRO or for Policing or for monitoring slag formation in steel plants or for condition monitoring of electrical installations for predictive and preventive maintenance in power plants and in the industrial units.

Do you have any future plan to manufacture these kind of sophisticated products in India?

Yes. Some models of thermo vision cameras using infra-red are proposed to be manufactured in India and hopefully, within this year.

What is your pre-budget expectations, from Government for Indian power industry and for Indian electrical component manufacturers/ importers /distributors?

Somehow, the previous budgets have not been so liberal or investment friendly when it comes to Power Sector. Perhaps there is a perception that Power Sector is very wealthy sector and can manage by itself and they do not need any support. But the results of such a wrong perception are there for all of us to see. To my mind, as many benefits are given to this sector in this budget, many times more will be the return to the government by

way of faster economic development across the board resulting into buoyancy allover. Import duties for power sector need to be abolished altogether at least for next 5 -7 years and all other applicable taxes like excise or sales tax / VAT, need to be considerably lowered, if not totally waived to give a serious momentum to grovvth of this sector and thereby to the economic grovvth of the country as a whole in a relatively short period of 5-7 years rather than to wait for next 15-20 years.

How do you evaluate the qua.lity of engineering manpower available in India. especially for high-technology products'?

The whole world knows and appreciate Indian brains and as such there is no problem to get intelligent engineering manpower. The problem is to give them detailed technical training for our specific product lines and technologies that we deal in and that is a little time consuming and somewhat expensive. Our HRD policies are accordingly designed and we have been managing this issue rather successfully.

Do you have any plan tocollaborate with premium technolog

institutionslike IITs in R&D and product innovation! upgradation?

We are constantly looking for ways to leverage the capabilities inherent in our premier research institutes. There are some projects on the anvil, the details of which we would be able to share perhaps later in the year.

How do you envisage the possible competition from low- cost manufacturing countries (for your range of products), both in Indian 81 in the global arena?

By and large, the low cost manufacturing countries compromise a lot on quality and performance to achieve their objective of lowering end- user costs. There are also patent issues in most cases. Quality conscious and law abiding customers requiring high degree of accuracy ! performance, do not normally compromise on both these issues and this is the niche market that we like to cater to.

How responsive do you find the Indian market for