Creating a Strategic IT-OT investment plan is essential for all manufacturing organizations. With all the opportunities to fund projects, which ones are the most important can only be understood, if considered as part of an overall corporate investment strategy. Too often, IT and OT investments are considered separately. While IT investments may have higher visibility across the enterprise, OT investments can also have a significant impact on the business.

TECHgium is an educational initiative for young engineers that results in proof of concepts in machine learning, video analytics, smart tools, augmented reality, IoT platforms, and other exciting areas. This is a unique initiative to share end user challenges and pain points with students and ask them to come up with innovative solutions. The aim is to provide engineering students with relevant exposure to the challenges and practical insights for Industrie 4.0. TECHgium will create an ecosystem that bridges the industry-academia divide by providing the participants with an opportunity to work on technologies of tomorrow, enhance their career prospects, and simultaneously augment LTTS’ solution development team.

On April 16, my old office at the Department of Energy announced the release of its latest Cybersecurity for Energy Delivery Systems (CEDS) R&D Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA).

Global companies set their sights on Bengaluru in the 1980s but the pace began accelerating only after 2000. Initially, outsourcing to India was considered a cost-effective option for routine jobs; but that is no longer true.

The theme of this blog is grid-scale batteries reduce generation, transmission, and distribution costs while improving grid reliability and resilience. One thing that has not changed is the demand for reliable power, since our lifestyle and economy depend on reliable electric power.