“It is not rocket science, we’re just automating the mundane tasks.” The Evolution of Predictive and Condition Based Maintenance over the last 40 Years By Brig YVR Vijay Introduction 1. Adding condition monitoring and predictive maintenance for legacy equipment…
MRO FOR LAND SYSTEMS IN INDIAN ARMY Background MRO stands as an acronym of Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul as well as Maintenance & Repair Operations. In either of these constructs, it covers the entire range of war fighting but unfortunately…
Brig YVR Vijay Realistically, what can we expect from 5G in Maintenance and Repair Management? 5G will basically give us multi Giga bit per secs data speed, ultra low latency, more reliability, greater network capacity, better user experience. Given all…
In a battle scenario the simple processes of maintenance and repair can become an important factor. Military equipment is complex by its nature as it is designed to produce results in the most difficult of environments. The profile of this…
TIPPING POINT FOR DISCARD: DEFENCE EQUIPMENTS It is no doubt that ‘man behind the machine’ matters but it is equally important to realise that the equipment being stated as machine in this ‘saying’ also matters and matters significantly. It is…
It was almost 107 years back in Sep 1915 when the first prototype tank weighing 14 tons was developed by the UK and was employed a year later in Sept 1916. Though it was of limited use and not very…
DRONES AND COUNTER DRONES: CAN INDIA BE FOUNDRY TO THE WORLD? The recent advent of drones/unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) have brought in one of the newest and most important disruptions not only in the war fighting domain but also in…
Irrespective of our individual opinions, one thing is certain, it’s ‘Time India’. Whether displaying the guts and courage against China in Doklam in 2017 or on the LAC in the Eastern Ladakh by occupying the Kailash ranges, India has not…
Let us examine how countries go about producing critical defense equipment. To produce defense equipment every country must have its own industrial base. Let us look at the different types of industrial bases, In India we have industry in the…
In Suzlon, we were maintaining over 9000 wind turbines (13 Giga Watts) in remote areas spread across the states of Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Karnataka, Maharashtra, AP, Telangana and Tamil Nadu. In 2018 with the help of my Head of…
