Ex-Chief of Public Sector defence undertaking Hindustan Aeronautics limited (HAl) Padmashri Nalini Ranjan Mohanty has said that the sheer distrust in own people remained one of the major hurdles in the way of development of the country. He said that despite having best brains around, many companies and institutions in the past couldn’t flourish as much as they were made for only because the top leaders of the institutions were not courageous enough to digest failure as a result of any experiment by their own people leading toward success.
Speaking at two-day 5th International Conference on Automation & Information Technology in Iron & Steel Making: VISION 2025 (AITISM 2016), ex-Chief Executive Officer (CEO) and Chairman of HAl Mohanty cited example of his organisation itself. He said that his trust and belief as a boss in colleagues could see India proudly producing Supersonic aircrafts.
“The company was a house of one of the finest brains in the field of technology, engineering and manufacturing even before I took charge. We were not remembered as a world class defence goods procurement company at that time with probably the poorest delivery duration period,” said Mohanty.
AITISM 2016 is the 5th International Conference of the AITISM series being organized by Ranchi Chapter of the Computer Society of India (CSI) along with Ranchi Chapter of the Indian Institute of Metals and Microsoft Innovation Centre Indore. Mohanty widely stressed upon the fact that Indian Industry had to raise standard in IT and Automation Implementation If India wanted to catch up with China as far as economic competence was to be compared.
Other dignitaries present on the occasion on the first day of the event included Executive Director (CET) SAIl and Computer Society of India (Ranchi Chapter) Chairman Neeraj Mathur, RDCIS SAIl (Ranchi) Executive Director BN Thakur, Thermofisher Scientific Global Head Stephen Nel, CSI President Dr. Anirban Basu, RDCIS SAIl GM (I/c) and Indian Institute of Metals, Ranchi Chapter Chairman AK Paul, SAIl Safety Organisation Executive Director RK Tripathi, RDCIS SAIl Head (Automation) AK Biswal, and CSI Ranchi Chapter Secretary Anup Prasad.
A commemorative stamp on AITISM-16 and Conference Proceedings was released by National executive members of CSI at the occasion. They included Vice President Sanjay Mahapatra, Treasurer RK Vyas and Regional Vice President HS Mishra. Anirban Basu stressed upon the fact that IT industry had a big role to play in improving the safety and productivity in steel industry.
BN Thakur dealt on the topic on how steel industry was being transformed from a dusty environment to a neat and clean environment for working by implementing automation and IT in steel industry.
Around 400 delegates and participants from 40 different organisations and countries including Germany, France, The Netherlands and Australia have arrived to make their presence in two-day event. They have come with immense expertise in the field of new generation Automation & Information Technologies in Steel Industries like IT in Business Functions, SMART computing, Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT), Robotics & Embedded Systems, instruments for on-line Elemental Analysis, advancement in Wireless Control Systems, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Systems for Steel Industry etc to share with Indian counterparts.