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 has been relegated to routine activity that too somewhere at one of the lowermost steps […]
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 the features which 5G has, the greatest potential of 5G is in predictive maintenance and […]
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 equipment keeps changing and thus makes the maintenance of military equipment an ever changing conundrum. […]
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 due to this reason that all the defence forces in the world pay special attention […]
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 successful initially, a large No of countries saw its potential and therefore, this is how […]
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 only become a regional power but has entered into a league of nations capable of […]
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 private sector, the public sector and the government sector. The capability of a country to […]
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 Data Analytics Late Col Vinay Gupta (EME) we forayed into using VR and AR to […]
BY LT GEN (DR) ANIL KAPOOR AVSM, VSM (Retired) Introduction 1. The new technology world order is defined by 4Ds – Data, Digitization, Digitalization and Disruption. This has propelled into a tenacious spiral of digital transformation, which in the continuum of time is revolutionising our lives at an unprecedented pace. In the disrupted world, data […]
Repair of an equipment can only be carried out if certain elements are present at the point of repair. The first element is skilled manpower . This person who is there and who has to carry out the repairs must have the knowledge and skills to do what is necessary to repair and bring the […]
