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LGi Equipments, one of
the world’s leading air-
compressor manufacturers,
has recently showcased
‘Air Alert’ its Industry 4.0 initiative.
This is a big step to provide better
customer service and part of the
significant initiative announced a
few months ago by the CEO of the
company, Jairam Varadaraj, to make
the company reach number two
position in the world. Its growth plansenvisage an investment of Rs 5,000
crore over the next 10 years. It hopes
to pump in Rs 1,000 to Rs 1,200 crore
in the next three years and this will
primarily go into building back-end
infrastructure in order to achieve $ 1
billion revenue in the next five years.Air Alert is a SIM card-based
communication system that will
track multiple parameters within
a compressor such as operatingtemperature, pressure, volume of
air delivered, and energy efficiency.
As a standard, free of cost service,
ELGi hopes to install the IoT-enabled
(internet of things) system in 500 screw
compressor range of units that were
manufactured after the calendar year- This exercise will be completed
by the end of the calendar year, 2017.
Anvar Jay Varadaraj, Head
of Marketing and Corporate
Communications, ELGi Equipments,
said, “The selection of machines for
retrofit have been done based on the
industry segment that will give the
most meaningful data.”
The data will be transmitted to ELGi’s
servers, where ELGi engineers
will review the data and provide
meaningful insights to the customer
on service intervals, energy efficiency,
changes in air consumption, and
general compressor health.
The initiative will elevate the
company’s after sales service to its
customers effectively eliminating
service delays and compressor
failures, which can result in expensive
downtime for its customers. Air Alert
will also provide meaningful field data
to the company to address quality
concerns real time and integrate
relevant changes into its new product
development process.
“The showcase of our Air Alert system
is a significant step in our efforts
to be more customer-centric and
data-driven as we seek to provide
the most efficient compressed air
solutions. Gathering data is easy,ELGi Takes To IoT For
Better Customer Service
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Anvar Jay Varadaraj