Continuing with the webinar series on Solar Energy: An Agent of Change, Solar Energy Society of India (SESI) will be organizing the second edition on 6th September 2020 titled “Renewal Energy in Indian Universities”, targeting the youth of India.

The would-be webinar aims to interact with university-level students, both Graduates and Post Graduates to introduce them to the sustainability of renewable energy resources of the Sunrise sector.

The Webinar will be honored by eminent maestros, chaired by Chief Guest and Keynote Speaker, Dr. Anil Sahasrabudhe, Chairman, All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), along with Dr. Prafulla Pathak, President of SESI, mentored with visionary academicians like Dr. S.M.

Ali, Director, The Institution of Engineers also the Vice President of SESI, Dr. (Prof.) Biswajit Ghosh, Vice-Chancellor, The Neotia University, and Dr. Sunil Rai, Vice-Chancellor, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies (UPES).

Commenting about the webinar Prafulla Pathak, President, SESI said, “India is a promising candidate aiming to lead the sunrise sector all over the world.

This will need the backup of skilled man-power and with India’s young population, SESI’s initiative aims to direct the youngsters in the path of the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi’s dream of One Sun, One World, One Grid”.

As we move towards a bigger picture of economic prosperity and sustainability, with self-sufficiency as the plan of action, we rarely come across manufacturers and companies who take pride and try to fully employ Indian resources for the purchase of components and raw materials.

And with all the bad news came the necessity of much-needed concept that is self-dependency.

For years what we operated was a China-dominated market and since the unhealthy trade relations have come to the forefront, people have developed responsibility and are motivated to go local, and to attract global share to the Indian market.

Solar Diamonds Tools, a Mumbai based company manufacturing diamond tools, is breaking grounds by going China free since years and have developed exceptional quality services.

In conversation to The Machine Maker, Avinash Sharma the Marketing Head of Solar Diamonds Tools spoke about how the company has managed throughout and insights on self-sufficiency.Freight and workforce challengeAvinash informed that due to the small size of their products but high volume, they opt for air freight services for transit both domestic as well as an international order.

During the Lockdown, there were orders from the East Asian market, but the company did not have any options to transport the order.But during the entire operational stage in the last 3 to 4 months, the major challenge was workforce as the guidelines proposed to operate at 1/6th capacity and the problem of migrant labour further intensified their difficulties.

Then what keeps us away from achieving global supremacy?

It is the knowledge and access to the right technology and building a capacity to supply to the world.

With a change in perception, Indian manufacturers are moving towards investing in methods that make them independent, and if pandemic has taught us anything it is that the key to sustainability is self-sufficiency.

Precisely Protos Engineering connects gives you the correct technology such as automation, machinery, etc from all around the world.

In conversation with Machine Maker, Sameer Potdar, Vice President, Protos Engineering Co. Pvt.

Ltd. discussed how there is a change in the way manufacturers have been operating over the years and how their company is indirectly creating a space for self-sufficiency.The conceptProtos was established back in 1949, by a German businessman and later on taken over by Kapadia Family.

India’s aatmanirbharta in the dairy sector came with the White Revolution or Operation Flood of 1970s, which placed India on top of the world’s dairy industry.

In conversation with Machine Maker, Dilip Khot, Chairman and Managing Director of Surya Agro Dairy Tech Expert Professionals, discusses how the dairy sector is poised to grow and how his company is helping Indian dairy farmers and dairy producers to scale up dairy production.Dr.

He worked in the positions of a senior doctor, head of the department, and the manager of animal firms.

He conducted projects all over the world to develop integral knowledge in dairy management and milk production and which factors are contributing to the milk yield.

Then in 2017, he founded Surya Agro Dairy Tech Expert Professionals based in Pune to help with the infrastructure building to the marketing of dairy products in the most profitable manner.Guidance to the sector  Mr.  Khot is one of India's most experienced dairy and animal farming industry consultants.

He has been a veterinary doctor for more than 17 years after which he has conducted projects in Germany, Israel, and India in dairy industries developing a worldwide view of the industry.

The next time you step inside a mall for shopping, the girl in a saari at the entrance waiting for your safety check or the girl dressed in formal pantsuit roaming across floor for monitoring if you are following social distancing may take you by surprise.

Yes, you read it right, it may be a humanoid robot in eye-catching human appearance.

After unveiling a range of Zafi Robots, (Zafi Go, Zafi Medic, Zafi Clean and Zafi Sanitizer) which were uniquely intended for the medical and sanitization purposes, Trichy based Propeller Technologies has shifted towards a new version of Humanoid Robot named ‘Zafira’ with more added intelligence, specially designed to ensure the protection of customers from COVID spread in various public places.In a conversation with the Machine Maker, Mohamed Aashik Rahman, CEO of Propeller Technologies shared, “From the house of Zafi Robots we have developed a series of robots since the very beginning of COVID crisis for supporting various professions.

Now, as the prevailing lockdown in various parts of the country has been gradually lifted to normalise economy, majority of the showrooms and shopping malls have started their operations.

But still there is – or even higher - risk that the staff and the customers might get contaminated despite taking plenty of safety measures.

Consequently, to ensure valuable customer safety we came up with Zafira”.About ZafiraZafira is a voice-activated robot, equipped with its own powerful computer which can detect whether the customer is following all the COVID precautions like wearing a mask, maintaining proper temperature and social distancing.

With the rapid industrial development, environmental degradation has also reached an alarming level.

Nearly 80% of urban and untreated industrial waste is dumped and effluents are discharged into water bodies wreaking havoc on the environment.

Pune based CCP Enterprise is a wastewater management company that manufactures wastewater treatment equipment and primarily supplies to all the industries not just within the country but globally.Speaking to Machine Maker, Pravin Raut, the CEO, and MD of CCP Enterprises shares how acute the challenge is.

He says, “In this consumerist society waste will always be produced.

We were producing waste yesterday, we are producing it today and maybe the future is far worse.” The growth of the waste management industry is the actual index of how alarming the situation is.Make in India drive“Even though after the reduction in the workforce for the last four to five months in the operations, things have been a little slow in the front of operations, things have started picking pace,” says Pravin.

In all this chaos and fear for the pandemic, the market situation for all the industries is changing with the Make in India drive.

When as a sixteen-year-old boy from Chandrapur, Maharashtra, Vedant Goel decided to become a young entrepreneur, little did he know the journey he was about to embark on?

This money was used to handle everything from web design, content management to the logo design.The company was fortunate enough to attract more than 500 customers in the first six to seven months of operation.

However, unforeseen issues started arising.

He graduated from the esteemed Sir Parashurambhau College in Pune, Maharashtra.

But as fate would have it, the name didn’t hold.After a series of failures and disappointments, Goel paused and contemplated what was leading to these results.

Neo Mega Steel LLP soared the sky with wide-open wings; and for once, the flight did not result in a crash landing.Successful VentureGoel’s company is one of the largest suppliers of raw materials in India.

The current market size of this industry in India is estimated to be $11 billion and is expected to witness significant growth in the next five years to reach $50 billion by 2025.

Though imports still constitute a sizeable part, Indian manufacturers are stepping up the Make in India quotient in the segment with indigenous innovation and solutions.

Pune based Synergytech Instruments is one such company bringing in innovation and solutions in the field of equipment innovation.

Speaking to Machine Maker, Abhijit Mahajani, co-founder of Synergytech spoke about his company and various other issues.

Synergytech’s expertise Each business has its custom necessities which are important to enable them to carry out their work operations.

Then we inspect, design, manufacture, and deploy one-of-a-kind particularly for the clientele.

Indian industrialists are out to establish India’s once existing economic excellence in the world.

Truly, the lion of ‘Make in India’ roars profoundly, so it does as it has reverberated globally.

India has grabbed the attention of global companies as a preferred investment destination.

The ‘Ease of Doing Business’ coupled with India’s vibrant market and consumer base is sure to accelerate businesses in India and build ‘Aatmanirbhar Bharat’.

It is also time to take India’s uprising to the world and Indian industrialists who have traditionally made their marks on the global space are on a new mission to change the future of the Indian economy.

However, when compared to other economies, India’s market opened much later.

Shri Pranab Mukherjee, the quintessential statesman, passed away on 31st August 2020, culminating an era of statesmanship marked with various roles and responsibilities.

His aspirations as a politician with a background in teaching as well as journalism were formidable.

He always felt it important to strengthen the manufacturing sector of India.

“The manufacturing sector needs to grow further to keep pace with the East Asian Countries which are growing rapidly,” he said as the then Finance Minister in 2012.

He urged for enhancing capabilities on the major front, primary technology and base, human skills, and hardware knowledge.

Realizing the need for innovation for growth, he suggested industries to work with research institutions to foster industry-academia collaboration.

In conversation with the Machine Maker, Kunal Kanabar spoke about his journey of coming up with a better UV sanitizer named Cure Buddy which provides ease and is expected to give better performance.

Ideal UV Sanitizer“When I was doing my research, I came across the fact that chemical-based sanitizers can harm people, specifically the ones with allergies,” said Kunal.

He was curious to know more, and to see what can be the solution as the current sanitization process might affect some in the long run.

He realized that UV technology can be put to use when it comes to killing microorganisms such as viruses.

After further reading about the impact of UV, he got to know that it can be used to sanitize things exteriorly and not from the interiors.Understanding the technology, he skimmed the industry to realize that there are people trying to develop this into a fully functional product.

This helped them understand its functionality better, and with a number of testing and trials with different intensities, he concluded with 11-watt power to be sufficient for sanitization using UV.

Design is a term which has been used over the years to describe graphics, image, or a picture.

If I say 'Logos’, pat comes the reply that they have an Advertising Agency for that task.

If I say I design space, there is a quizzical look, “Space”, when I explain space, they say it is the job of an Interior Designer.What exactly is Design Thinking?Design Thinking is a much larger process that encompasses many more factors to create the correct business model and practices not only for the present but also for tomorrow.

Design Thinking is a process that every business organization should incorporate into its DNA for business growth and expansion.1.

Design Thinking is disruptive and active LeadershipIt becomes necessary for any business owner to get out of their comfort zone to evolve their businesses constantly, starting from their products to their marketing and sales strategies to meet the challenges of a dynamic and changing marketplace.

Design Thinking is enquiringConstantly taking feedbacks on competitive products, applying newer thoughts to improve products and services, thereby causing innovation whether in the processes or the products/services.