th9 Strategic Electronics Summit

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Strategic Electronics Summit 2018

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Ministry of Electronics & IT Government of India

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Electronic Industries Association of India ELCINA House, 422 Okhla Industrial Estate Phase III, New Delhi – 110020, India

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A Summary of SES 2018 ______

Introduction

Strategic electronics is a fast-growing area in the electronics space and is a key

focus of the Government of India through its Make in India program. ELCINA has been in the forefront of bringing together the various stakeholders in the space of

strategic electronics through its flagship event called the Strategic Electronics Summit (SES).

The 9th edition of the Strategic Electronics Summit was conducted in Hotel Lalit Ashok, Bangalore on the 5th and 6th July 2018. The agenda of Strategic electronics

summit was to discuss the key developments in the strategic electronics industry, highlight emerging technology perspectives and evolve the capability roadmap for

2018 and beyond. This is with the objective of helping the industry and its stakeholders make a more informed choice while planning their strategic electronics

investment.

With more than USD 100 billion investment expected in the defence sector in India over the next 5-6 years, the overall strategic electronics space needs a higher

private partnership in this space. The Defence PSUs (DPSUs) will continue to be the pillar of the industry. However, participation from private companies which goes

beyond the multinational companies and involves the Indian MSMEs and start ups will usher in a new era of cooperation in the strategic electronics space. The

summit highlighted not only the capabilities of these MSMEs and start ups in these

areas but also highlighted the willingness of the Defence PSUs to experiment with MSMEs and start ups to build their future strategies.

In addition, the summit also helped the stakeholders build better appreciation towards new initiatives in the aerospace and defence sector including initiatives like

iDEX, Defence corridors apart from the most updated defence procurement policies that have been released by government. These are all positive signs for Indian

industries which can help the Industry, academia and manufacturers in the strategic electronics sector to work collaboratively in the interest of nation.

OBJECTIVES OF THE EVENT

Bring all stakeholders on one platform to enable better communication understanding of requirements of the defence establishment.

Facilitate in creating indigenous capability to manufacture defence equipment and meet these requirements

Create awareness about opportunities in the Strategic Electronics sector in India

Involve the Small and Medium Enterprises to meet the requirements of Defence Forces.

Bridging the gap between R&D, Government organizations and businesses. Explain and highlight the new Defence Production and Offset Policies.

Encouraging and enabling investments for developing strategic strengths.

Stalwarts @ 9th Strategic Electronics Summit – Defence & Aerospace

Shri A S Kiran Kumar, Formar Chairman

ISRO Shri Sanjay Jaju, Jt. Secretary

DIP, Ministry of Defence

Padma Shri Dr. Prahlada Ramarao, Former DS & CC, R&D, DRDO, Former VC, DIAT

Dr. V K Aatre, Former SA to RM

Dr. PV Venkitakrishnan

OS & Director

Capacity Building Program, ISRO

Dr. Shailesh Nayak

Former Chairman ISRO

9th Strategic Electronics Summit- Defence & Aerospace Siddhartha Hall, The Lalit Ashok, Bengaluru

“Building India as A Strategic Electronics Manufacturing Hub” A Vibrant Eco-System with MSMEs, Private Partners and Public Sector

Conference Program

Day–1 5th July 2018

0900- 0930 Hrs Arrival & Registration

0945 – 1100 Hrs - Inaugural Session Theme Session : “Building India as A Defence Manufacturing Hub”

Welcome Remarks : Mr Pankaj Gulati, President, ELCINA & COO, CDIL

VIP Guest : Shri P. Ravi Kumar , Chief General Manager, South-1, NSIC Bangalore

Industry Address: Mr. JD Patil, Wholetime Director & Sr. Exec VP, L&T Defence

Special Address : Col. H. S. Shankar (Retd.), CMD, Alpha Design Technologies

Guest of Honour: Maj. Gen. MJS Syali, ADG EME (B), IHQ of MoD (Army), Directorate of Indeginisation (DOI)

Chief Guest: Padma Shri Dr. Prahlada Ramarao, Former DS & CC, R&D, DRDO, Former VC, DIAT, Pune

Presentation Ceremony of ELCINA defEnnovation Awards 2018

11:00 – 12:00 Hrs

- Introduction to the Awards – Dr. Shailesh Nayak, Chairman of DefEnnovation Awards Committee & Former Chairman ISRO

- Presentation of Awards by Chief Guest, Guest of Honour in the presence of the Award Committee members

Excellence in Indigenization Excellence in Manufacturing – Component Excellence in Manufacturing – Product Excellence in R&D Start-up

- Group Photo of the winners - Vote of Thanks : Mr N Ramachandran, CMD, MEL Systems & Services Pvt Ltd. & Chairman SES

organising Committee Tea Break & Visit to the Exhibition (Kalinga Hall) : 12:00 – 13:00 Hrs Networking Lunch: 1300 – 1400 Hrs

1400-1500 Hrs Session – I Defence Corridors : Development of Defence Industrial Corridors – Promoting Start-ups and MSMEs Ecosystem

Mr Ankit Agarwal, IAS, Special Secretary, Infrastructure & Industrial Development Commissioner, Govt. of UP

Mr. B Elangavon, Managing Director, Tidal Park Limited, Govt. of Tamil Nadu (TIDCO)

Mr. Chandrashekar HG, Founder & MD- SASMOS HET Technologies

Mr. Utpal Sen, Head of Strategic Electronics Division (SED), ECIL

NSIC Schemes and Services for the Development of MSME's - Shri M. Sreevatsan, Sr. Branch Manager, NSIC Bangalore

Session – II - Industry Interactive Vendor Development Meet

1500 – 1545 Hrs –

Slot 1: HAL

1545 – 1630 Hrs

Slot 2:– Bharat Electronics Ltd

1630 – 1730 Hrs

Tea Break & Exhibition visit and B2B interaction (in Exhibition Hall):

Day – 2 6th July 2018

0900- 0930 Hrs Arrival & Registration

0945 – 1100 Hrs –Opening Session

Potential & Opportunities in Strategic Electronics Industry

Real Potential, Policies & Procedures

Guest of Honour - Shri AS Kiran Kumar, Former Chairman ISRO- Special Address

Guest of Honour - Shri Sanjay Jaju, Jt Secretary, DIP, Ministry of Defence- Special Address

Rear Admiral Sreekumar Nair, NM, Asst. Chief of Material (IT & S), Indian Navy

Col. H.S. Shankar (Retd.), CMD, Alpha Design Technologies

Shri Vipin Tyagi, Executive Director, C-DOT

Shri Ravi Shankaran A, GM, D&E and PDIC, Bharat Electronics Ltd.

11:00 – 11:30 Hrs

Tea Break & Visit to the Exhibition (Kalinga Hall) :

1130 – 1230 Hrs Panel Discussion I - Strategy for Strengthening defence production & Indigenization

Session Chairman & Guest of Honour - Dr. V K Aatre, Former SA to RM

Maj. Gen. MJS Syali, ADG EME (B), IHQ of MoD (Army), Directorate of Indeginisation (DOI)

Shri V V R Sastry, Ex CMD, BEL, Ex-ED, C-Dot

Cdr. Abhijit Sinha, (Retd), GM India Operation, ShinMaywa Industries

1230 – 1330 Hrs Panel Discussion II - Accelerating private participation in Space programs

Session Chairman -Dr. Shailesh Nayak, Ex ISRO, Secretary, Ministry of Earth Sciences, GOI & Director, National Institute of Advanced Studies(NIAS),

Col. H.S. Shankar (Retd.), CMD, Alpha Design Technologies

Dr PV Venkitakrishnan, OS & Director, Capacity Building Program, ISRO

Mr. C.D. Shridhara, Director, Ananth Technologies Ltd.

Mr. M Anilkumar, Director, SLN Technologies & Chairman IESA

Networking Lunch: 1330 – 1415 Hrs

1415 – 1435 Hrs

Special Talk : Building IOT ecosystem Dr. Dhanukumar Pattanashetti, IEEE

1435 – 1615 Hrs Session – II - Catalyzing Startup ecosystem for Strategic Electronics

Guest of Honour : Rear Admiral V.M. Doss, VSM, ACNS(Air Material), Indian Navy

Mr Mudit Narayan, Innovation for Defence Excellence (iDEX )

Mr NK Mohapatra, CEO, Electronics Sector Skill Council

Mr Harikrishnan Purvankara, CEO, BlackPepper Technologies

Dr Swaroop Ganguly, Co-Professor, IIT Bombay Research Park

Prof. K.R. Anupama, Professor & Associate Dean, BITS-Pilani (Goa Campus)

Mr. Harish Mysore , Sr. Director-IEEE India Operations

1615 Hrs - Closing of Conference & Tea Break 1620 hrs – 17:30 Hrs – Visit to Exhibition & Networking

List of Participating Companies

Sl. No List of Exhibitors/Sponsors

1 515 Army Base Workshop

2 Alpha Design Technologies Pvt Ltd

3 Airborn International

4 Amphenol Interconnect India Pvt Ltd

5 Anant Enterprises

6 Anritsu India Pvt Ltd

7 Antrix Associates

8 Apacer Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

9 Brady Company India Pvt. Ltd.

10 Centre For Development of Telematics (C-DOT)

11 Centum Electronics Limited

12 Continental Device India Pvt Ltd

13 Conceptia Software Technologies Pvt Ltd

14 CT Control Technology (India) Pvt Ltd

15 Directorate of Indigenisation, Indian Army

16 EFY

17 Electronics Corporation of India Limited (ECIL)

18 Electronic Sector Skills Council Of India

19 EM Media

20 Evans Capacitor Company

21 FTD Automation Pvt. Ltd.

22 Hindustan Aeronautics Limited

23 Hindustan Magnesium Products Pvt Ltd

24 Infrastructure & Industrial Development Dept. Govt. of UP

25 Indian Telephone Industries Ltd (ITI Ltd.)

26 Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

27 IPC Technology Consulting Pvt Ltd

28 Karnataka Biotechnology and Information Technology Services (KBITS)

29 Kaynes Technology India Pvt Ltd

30 LRDE Ministry Of Defence

31 Mapusoft Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

32 Mel Systems And Services Ltd

33 Miracle Electronics Devices Pvt. Ltd

34 nvent/Pentair Technical Products India

35 Qmax Test Equipments Private Limited

36 Saraswati Dynamics Pvt. Ltd.

37 Sensegiz Technologies Pvt Ltd

38 SLN Technologies Pvt. Ltd.

39 Sooktha Consulting Pvt. Ltd.

40 Syrma Technology Private Limited

41 Sasmos HET Technologies Ltd

42 ThinkCircuit Technologies Private Limited

SUMMARY OF PROCEEDINGS

The 9th edition of Strategic Electronic Summit was inaugurated by Dr. Padma Shri Dr.

Prahalada Ramarao, Former DS & CC, R&D, DRDO, Former VC, DIAT on 5th July,

2018 at The Lalit Ashok, Bengaluru.

Day 1 – 5th July, 2018 – “Inaugural Session”

Digniataries during Lamp Lighting Ceremony Digniataries at Dias

Mr. Pankaj Gulati, President ELCINA & COO, CDIL

Chief Guest Padma Shri Dr. Prahalada Ramarao, Former DS &

CC, R&D, DRDO, Former VC, DIAT

Maj. Gen. MJS Syali, ADC EME (B), IHQ of MoD

(Army), Directorate of Indigenisation

Mr. J D Patil, Wholetime Director & Sr. Exec VP,

L&T Defence

Col. H.S. Shankar (Retd.). CMD, Alpha Design Technologies

Shri P. Ravi Kumar, Chief General Manager, South-1, NSIC, Bangalore

Mr. Pankaj Gulati, President ELCINA & COO, CDIL Welcomed the dignitaries

highlighted that the theme of the event was extremely relevant given the current

development in the country and the focus on Make in India for defence products. Mr Gulati

also congratulated ELCINA on successfully completing 50 years.

Mr. Gulati also highlighted that several Indian MSME’s are ready to be involved in Defence

equipment & system manufacturing and have the capability to do so but lose out as they

are unaware of the processes and the requirements that they need to comply to qualify for

such opportunities.

Mr. Gulati also spoke about the Initiative ‘ELCINA Defennovation award’ to industries who

have done a great job in strategic electronics R&D or system design or manufacturing.

Padma Shri Dr. Prahalada Ramarao, Former DS & CC, R&D, DRDO, Former VC,

DIAT, Bangalore- started off by talking about the potential that the Indian industry holds

towards developing of electronic product. According to him, what started as a negligible

opportunity has currently shown a decent growth rate in just a few decades. However, he

also highlighted that the Indian industry is unable to scale up its operations while

maintaining the quality standards. He further added in order to be able to achieve its

growth ambition, the Indian industry should focus on three key elements – building

technical competence, establishing a disciplined workforce and infusing professional

management.

Dr. Praalada Ramarao also proposed a new way for ELCINA to look at the industry wherein

ELCINA can identify start-ups and MSMEs which has the potential to develop futuristic

products for defence or aerospace and scale it up to global level. ELCINA then supports

them through its ecosystem which will help them focus on their supply chain management

and delivery to India and to the global demand.

Maj. Gen. MJS Syali, ADC EME (B), IHQ of MoD (Army), Directorate of

Indigenisation (DOI)- Mentioned that the current focus of government is indigenisation

of systems and equipment at very large scale. He added that “The current initiatives have

invited many of us to the same platform. We can see so many actions of polices are taking

places”.

Mr. J D Patil, Wholetime Director & Sr. Exec VP, L&T Defence, praised the initiatives

of the Government of India and highlighted that several of the policies of the current

Government of India have been converted into actions in a very short time which has

worked to the advantage of the defence sector and industry. He presented a comparative

scenario of the current vis-vis one that was prevalent 7-8 years ago. While 7-8 years back,

only 3-4% of orders were given to MSMEs, currently, MSME contribution has increased 10

fold in the space of defence supplies.

Col. H.S. Shankar (Retd.). CMD, Alpha Design Technologies spoke about the different

government policies that promote domestic indigenous industry in the defence and

aerospace sector. He suggested to all MSMEs to invest their time and understand the

government and defence procurement policies. He believes that in the near future the

industry and defence work collaboratively to innovate in the defence and strategic

electronics space.

Shri P. Ravi Kumar, Chief General Manager, South-1, NSIC Bangalore spoke about

different portals initiated by ministry, such as ‘Samadhan’ and ‘Sambandh’ Portal, to

tackle different issues that are being faced by MSMEs currently. He invited different MSMEs

to get registered with NSIC to receive updates from the ministry on policies etc. Mr Ravi

Kumar highlighted one of the policies of the Govt. of India which states that all

Government organizations and PSUs must mandatorily procure 20% of its requirement

from micro and small organizations. Mr Ravi Kumar also encouraged MSMEs to log into the

portal to determine the details of procurement done by various departments in the current

year and the previous year in order to get an estimate of the opportunity that exists for the

MSMEs.

Conclusions

The session provided a detailed understanding of the opportunities that are available for

MSMEs to partner in defence space and also highlighted the approach that such businesses

can adopt to be able to leverage the opportunity. It was evident that the Government of

India is encouraging MSMEs to partner the Government in defence supplies including that

of Strategic electronics supplies. At the same time, it is important for the MSMEs to be

aware of the processes and requirements of defence contracts and prepare themselves

adequately to collaborate with the DPSUs and other defence establishments.

With the Government of India looking at indigenization of strategic electronics supplies,

there is a significantly large opportunity that exists for domestic MSMEs in this market.

However, it is also important for the industry to invest in building technical competency,

disciplined workforce and professional management to provide assurance to the

Government on its commitment to deliver quality solutions to them.

Presentation Ceremony of ELCINA Defennovation Awards-2018

5th July, 2018

EXCELLENCE IN INDIGENIZATION

Large

1st Prize: Larsen & Toubro Limited, Bengaluru.

(L&T Defence, Strategic Electronics Centre, Bangalore has

Successfully developed a Ship installed Chemical Agent

Detector System)

2nd Prize: Centre For Development of Telematics (c-dot), Bengaluru.

(MAX-NGC-DOT MAX-NG is “next generation” technology

to migrate TDM based technology to all IP solution)

MSME

1st Prize: Southern Electronics Pvt Ltd, Bengaluru.

(Company has developed Avionics Systems, Test Equipment

for Aircraft Instruments& Sub-Systems, Fire Protection

Systems for Light Combat Aircrafts equipment)

2nd Prize: SASMOS HET, Bengaluru.

(SASMOS is a new company which is focused on

Manufacturing of Wiring Harness, Integration of

Interconnect Systems)

2nd Prize: MAGNATECH, Bengaluru.

(Company has successfully indigenized Power Inductor

MT 19142 which is an Equivalent part to the original

Israeli manufacture)

EXCELLENCE IN MANUFACTURING- COMPONENT

MSME

1st Prize: Kaynes Technology Pvt Ltd, Mysore.

(Kaynes Technology is working on almost all the electronic

Parts of SU 30 which are being indigenized under a

ToT Project-Manufacturing of Components)

EXCELLENCE IN MANUFACTURING- PRODUCT

MSME

1st Prize: Alpha Design, Bengaluru.

(Manufacturing-Product/System integrator in the MSME

Category, Strong Defence Electronics development

and Production Organisation)

2nd Prize: Rosell TechSys, Bengaluru.

(Manufacturing-Product/System integrator in the MSME

Category, provides Interconnect solutions for various

Boeing Military Aircraft Platforms)

2nd Prize: Electro Circuit Systems, Hyderabad.

(Electro Circuits Systems is a MSME company rendering

Its services to the defence and aerospace sector, by

Undertaking design and manufacturing of MIL grade PCBs)

EXCELLENCE IN R&D

Large

1ST Prize: CENTRE FOR DEVELOPMENT of Telematics (C-dot),

Bengaluru.

(GPON GIGABIT PASSIVE OPTICAL NETWORK- C-DOTs

GPON is essentially a cost effective optical fiber based

access system for providing a triple play of Voice,Video

and data services for government, industry, security

agencies)

2nd Prize: BHARAT FORGE LIMITED, Pune.

(The Project Involves the Design and development of

Ku-Band Microstrip Monopulse Antenna for Aerospace

Applications)

EXCELLENCE IN R&D

MSME

1st Prize: AVANTEL LIMITED, Vishakhapattanam.

(Avantel Limited is a technology driven ISO certified

Company providing customized solutions through

process oriented design,development and manufacturing

of wirless and satellite communications products)

2nd Prize: Qmax Test Equipments Pvt Ltd, Chennai.

(Company has developed the Qmax Q1204C Robotic Flying

Prober Tester for a project initiated by BEL Chennai)

STARTUP

MSME

1st Prize: BlackPepper Technologies Pvt. Ltd, Bengaluru.

(Developed Mission critical equipments is one of the most

Critical focus for Indian Military, End to End tactile

Surveillance platform that can sense, secure, network)

2nd Prize: SenseGiz Technologies Pvt Ltd, Belgaum.

(Perimeter Surveillance solution at LoCWe as SenseGiz

Provide enterprise loT Solutions for Perimeter Security

Using a combination of Sensors, Gateway, and Cloud and

Local server)

Group Photo of Award Winners

Day 1 – 5th July, 2018 - Session I

“Development of Defence Industrial Corridors – Promoting Start-ups and

MSMEs Ecosystem ”

Mr. Ankit Agrawal, IAS, Special Secretary,

Govt. of UP

Mr. B Elangavon, Managing Director,

TIDAL Park Ltd. (TIDCO)

Mr. Chandrashekhar HG, Founder & MD – SASMOS HET Technologies

Mr. Utpal Sen, Head of Strategic Electronics Division (SED), ECIL

Mr. Ankit Agrawal, IAS, Special Secretary, Infrastructure & Industrial

Development Commissioner, Govt. of UP- Mr Agarwal spoke about the advantage that

a state like Uttar Pradesh offers to electronics manufacturers. He highlighted that the state

is the country’s 3rd largest economy and has highest numbers of MSMEs (Reg. and

unregistered) in India. In addition, he also highlighted the rich defence manufacturing base

in the state with it having 3 HAL manufacturing units, 9 Ordnance factories, BEL etc. In

addition, businesses and defence establishments have also invested in in R&D and

innovation in the state with organizations such as DRDO, ASERDC, HAL, prominent forensic

science laboratories and premier institutes like IIT-Kanpur and BHU IIT having set up R&D

facilities in the state.

He also informed about the defence corridor in UP which is passing through Aligarh, Agra,

Jhansi, Chitrakut, Kanpur and Lucknow and explained the strength of these districts as a

strong ancillary base to support the needs of defence manufacturing and ensure continuous

supply of raw materials, labour etc. thereby positioning U.P. as a pre-eminent investment

destination for strategic electronics organizations aspiring to set up their manufacturing

units in India.

Mr. B Elangavon, Managing Director, Tidal Park Ltd. Govt. of Tamil Nadu (TIDCO)

spoke about the growing contribution of Tamil Nadu in Indian manufacturing story across

categories like Automobiles, leather, textiles etc. He also highlighted that the Government

of Tamil Nadu has taken significant actions in aiding land acquisition, industry partnership,

industrial policies etc which will help industries investing in the state.

Mr. Chandrashekhar HG, Founder & MD – SASMOS HET Technologies spoke about

achievements of India in Aerospace and IT sectors. However, he also mentioned that the

Indian industry lacks in developing/designing products in the timeline provided to them. He

also highlighted that the MSMEs are the ones who can drive innovation at a rapid pace and

are also more technically focussed when compared to the larger organizations. However,

MSMEs usually lack the conviction and, thus, look for support from the larger

organizations.

He emphasized on the actions that ned to be taken in order to make “Defence Corridors” a

success. This will need to be ably supported by the training and development centres. Such

training will equip businesses to do rapid prototype and design relevant products for the

defence sector. He said, “The challenge for the civilian that we don’t know the complete

scenario. We must wait for such shows or look for the RFIs to understand requirements”

Mr. Utpal Sen, Head of Strategic Electronics Division (SED), ECIL spoke about the

objective behind setting up the Defence corridors i.e., to encourage MSMEs to work closely

under PSUs for indigenization of defence requirements and to develop ecosystem to

promote self-reliance in defence production. The strategy is to link Research, Academia &

MSMEs and bringing them together on same platform.

He also mentioned about the handholding of MSMEs done by ECIL wherein they allow the

MSMEs to to work with various technology under same roof and offering them consultancy

in design and development, project management and turnkey solutions with life cycle

support.

Conclusions

The discussion in this session focused around the defence corridors that are being set up in

Uttar Pradesh and Tamil Nadu. Representatives from these states talked about their

strategic location, their support to defence and industries etc. Also, speakers highlighted

the need for handholding of MSMEs and to provide them with training, testing facilities and

consultancy in design etc. to help them succeed. In addition, it was also recognized that a

successful initiative will require the linkage of the Research, Academia and industry under

one roof to enable collaborative learning and experimentation.

Day 1 – 5th July, 2018

Industry Interactive Vendor Development Meet

Slot 1 : Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. - HAL

Speaker Ramakrishnan Ayer – General Manager of Indigenisation, HAL spoke

about some of the indigenization procedure which is followed in HAL. He told that every

year around 2000 items are being indigenized and there is specific thrust for the

indigenisation of critical line replaceable units for various platforms. And further HAL allows

participation in various development program to identify suitable vendors for indigenization

He also spoke about the support that is to be provided to vendors such as testing facility

available at HAL, complete technical support, and supply of technical documents, drawing,

process sheets etc. and he also spoke about the expectations from suppliers in return are

competitive pricing, consistency in product quality, timely delivery and establishment of

reliable quality management system

Slot 2 : Bharat Electronics Ltd. - BEL

Dinesh Kumar- Additional general manager in missile systems-BEL Bangalore

spoke about indigenization procedure which is followed in BEL. There are several initiatives

that have been taken up to achieve self-reliance through Strong thrust on In-house R&D

and Indigenization, Public private partnerships & joint ventures and as a result 89% of

turnover is generated through indigenously developed products/systems.

He also talked about different categories in indigenisation such as design/manufacturing as

well as testing is taken up by BEL, design efforts by BEL collaboratively,

design/manufacturing & testing done by External source and the last in which direct

purchase from domestic source & testing is taken up by BEL.

Conclusions

In vendor development program, the discussion started with indigenization procedures that

are being followed in HAL and BEL separately. There are several initiatives that have been

taken by these organizations to achieve self-reliance through Strong thrust on in-house

R&D and indigenization, public private partnerships & joint ventures. Number of support

facilities are also discussed which are provided to vendors such as testing facility, complete

technical support, consultancy etc.

Day 2 – 6th July, 2018 – Inaugural Session

“Potential & Opportunities in Strategic Electronics Industry”

Guest of Honour Shri AS Kiran Kumar, Former Chairman

ISRO

Guest of Honour Shri Sanjay Jaju, Jt. Secretary

DIP, Ministry of Defence

Col. H.S. Shankar (Retd.), CMD

Alpha Design Technologies Shri Vipin Tyagi, Executive Director

C-DOT

Rear Admiral Sreekumar Nair Asst. Chief of Material, Indian Navy

Shri Ravi Shankaran A, GM, D&E and PDIC Bharat Electronics Ltd.

Guest of Honour – Shri AS Kiran Kumar, Former Chairman ISRO-Special Address- Talked about the basic segments of realization of any system which starts with system design followed by system components and material and ends with putting them together.

He gave an example of western countries where a lot of investment is done on innovations and R&D. There can be success rate is as low as 5-6% but still these nations are bringing

new capabilities to show to world. He said, “During any warfare, there are two ways through which we will be able to sustain, either whatever we have we need to maintain and make them effective or develop some

new capabilities in ourselves so that we can stand out among the developed nations”

Guest of Honour – Shri Sanjay Jaju, Jt. Secretary, DIP, Ministry of Defence-

addressed the audience with stating the fact that in India, electronic imports is at second position in the list but is very close to the figures of crude oil which is at the top. Lot of innovations and R&D are happening across globally in defence and aerospace industry and

the Defence sector has to be very strong for any nation. It does not make sense to use matured technologies in defence. India requires a strategic implication of having solid,

robust hardware industry that can support growing technologies such as AI, IoT, machine learning etc. He explained the importance of iDEX which is an initiative that can build an ecosystem for

start-ups that are in defence and would like to work collaboratively to fulfill defence requirement. So, this initiative will remove all the entry barriers for start-ups to join in the

platform. Col. H.S. Shankar (Retd.) CMD, Alpha Design Technologies- mentioned about the

potential for defence business in India over next five years. He spoke about various procurement methods by defence industries such as direct procurement by MoD/MHA from

industries, direct procurement from PSUs/ORD factories/Private sectors and through offset sales. He also threw some lights on the procurement cycle of defence industry which takes approximately 2-3 years to max. 6-7 years to complete. It starts from R&D then RFI

(Request for Information), RFP (Request for proposal), user trials, other evaluations, technical evaluations, bidding, agreement/contracts, production & supply, installation,

warranty and ends with AMC/spares. Shri Vipin Tyagi, Executive Director, C-DOT- highlighted loopholes in current policies

such as the building systems being inherently slow in India. A lot of inefficiencies and comfort that is taken by industries as well as DPSUs which are adding up to the final

product delivery. He said, “All the suppliers take a lot of time in product delivery so we have to start little late for product development and product comes in to market very late,

so in this way the whole supply chain is getting disturbed. On top of it sales and acceptance cycle is so long. Hence, the critical problem that needed to be solved gets delayed by 3 years. During this period technology evolves or goes to the next level”

He also explained the cause of this scenario is the delay in decision making with the buyers and non-alignment with the indigenous players. The inability to align at the vision level

creates a lot of delay in the complete process. So, the whole prototyping stage has to be included in to the R&D plan so that every stakeholder can work collaboratively to bring out innovation at very early stage.

Rear Admiral Sreekumar Nair, NM, Asst. Chief of Material (IT & S), Indian Navy – spoke about the present scenario in NAVY. They import 70% of the systems & equipment and rest 30% is designed and developed indigenously, which shows a good opportunity for

defence electronics manufacturers/suppliers to fill the gap. There is also a necessity for the nation to be self-reliant. Currently if a new system/equipment is introduced, then defence

must maintain it for next 15-20 years because of unavailability of replacement in near future. He further spoke about ecosystem needs to be created with DPSUs and MSMEs. MSMEs are

not working directly with NAVY but working with DPSUs/product partners like BEL, DRDO. But MSMEs play a bigger role in supplying electronic components to these DPSUs in Cable

manufacturing, Design & Development of PCB, Manufacture of consoles, Software development & Integration etc.

Shri Ravi Shankaran A, GM, D&E and PDIC, Bharat Electronics Ltd.- spoke about the R&D work that is done in BEL in core technology areas such as SONAR, RADAR, Weapon

systems, Tank electronics, Electro Optics etc. BEL is investing a lot of efforts and funds towards collaborative R&D development with INR 600 Cr. annual CAPEX with world class manufacturing and test facility. He also spoke about BEL’s initiative in line with ‘Make in

India’ initiative by Government of India in collaborative R&D approach with Indian private industries.

Conclusions

Present delegates had talked about the actions taken by different DPSUs are in line with ‘Make in India’ initiative by GoI in collaborative R&D approach with Indian private

industries. As a result there is going to be a good opportunity for defence electronics manufacturers/suppliers to fill the gap and it is now necessity for nation to be self-reliant.

Some of the things that Indian business sectors and defence sector need to overcome is delay in decision making with the buyers and non-alignment with the indigenous players.

The inability to align at the vision level creates a lot of delay in the complete process. India requires a strategic implication of having solid, robust hardware industry that can support growing technologies such as AI, IoT, machine learning etc.

Session I

Panel Discussion on “Strategy for Strengthening Defence Production & Indigenization”

Dr. V K Aatre, Former SA to RM Maj. Gen. MJS Syali, ADC EME (B),

IHQ of MoD (Army)

Cdr. Abhijit Sinha, (Retd), GM India Operation,

ShinMaywa Industries Shri V. V. R. Sastry, Ex CMD, BEL, Ex-ED, C-Dot

Dr. V K Aatre, Former SA to RM & Session Chairman & Guest of Honour: Addressing

the attendees on Day #2 of SES 2018, Dr. V. K. Aatre started off explaining the scenario during 90s, when every commercialized technology was derived from either Defence or in

Aerospace. But today the scenario has been changed. There is a change in looking at the electronic module for defence, where scale of volume for electronic component is comparatively lesser than consumer electronic products and in the current scenario large

part of industry should address the immediate requirement of defence sector to maintain those equipment that are already adopted by the nation and look at developing/designing

indigenous system and equipment at the same time He continued speaking about the capabilities that Indian industry have. India has

outstanding system designers but incapability of producing indigenous electronic components limits the design capability of the nation.

Maj. Gen. MJS Syali, ADC EME (B), IHQ of MoD (Army), Directorate of Indigenisation (DoI): explained the current situation of imported armed forces

equipment with low level of servicing and no supply from domestic industries for defence requirements. The imported systems/equipment from abroad have age span of 15 years,

but they end up keeping them in service for 25-30 years because there is no replacement is available for those systems in domestic market. He further added, “Self-reliance is the core of indigenization in defence and GoI has rightly taken a decision that the indigenously

designed/developed/manufactured systems will be the first priority for procurement and imports will be the last priority”

He also spoke about the government’s initiative DoI (Directory of Indigenisation) and its role to carry out indigenisation of imported stores. DoI also has taken initiatives in simplifying procurement policies of defence and at the mean time had acted in enhancing

awareness of Indian manufacturers on procedure through seminars, pre-bid meetings etc.

Cdr. Abhijit Sinha, (Retd), GM India Operation, ShinMaywa Industries: Started with facts and figures about the increase of defence budget from ~US $ 52.5 billion in 2017 to $ 62.8 billion in 2018 and talked about the offset market opportunity of around

~ US $ 700 million in 2017 in Aerospace and Defence sector. He explained about the key trends that are shaping the offset opportunity in India are growing engineering services

outsourcing in India, increasing foreign players as well as domestic players’ involvement in defence industry.

Shri V. V. R. Sastry, Ex CMD, BEL, Ex-ED, C-Dot: Spoke about the strategies which should be adopted by MSMEs to cater to the peculiar demand of defence sector. A

continuous R&D process is a must for industries to develop/design indigenous electronic products by observing the imported ones and emphasized on the quality assurance to keep in consideration for critical defence and aerospace applications. MSMEs need to assess the

cost and quantum of work needed for carrying out defence projects because it takes long term collaboration

Conclusions

The discussion revolved around the current situation of imported armed forces equipment

with low level of servicing and no supply from domestic industries for defence requirements and moreover India’s incapability of producing indigenous electronic components limits the

design capability of the nation. They also mentioned about the government’s initiative DoI (Directory of Indigenisation) and its role to carry out indigenisation of imported stores. Key trends are also discussed that are shaping the offset opportunity in India are growing

engineering services outsourcing in India, increasing foreign players as well as domestic players’ involvement in defence industry.

Session II

Panel Discussion on “Accelerating Private Participation in Space Programs”

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Session Chairman- Dr. Shailesh Nayak, Ex ISRO,

Secretary, Ministry of Earth Sciences, GOI & Director, National Institute of Advanced Studies

(NIAS)

Dr. PV Venkitakrishnan, OS & Director

Capacity Building Program, ISRO

Col. H.S. Shankar (Retd.), CMD Alpha Design Technologies

Mr. C.D. Shridhara, Director Ananth Technologies Ltd.

Mr. M. Anilkumar, Director

SLN Technologies & Chairman IESA Group Photo

Session Chairman- Dr. Shailesh Nayak, Ex ISRO, Secretary, Ministry of Earth Sciences, GOI & Director, National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS)- Started with the importance of development of innovative systems within the country that are

going to be used by Aerospace and Defence sector. He explained the benefits of designing/producing electronic components at very competitive prices. It is going to create

a huge demand nationally as well as globally.

He further mentioned about initiatives of ISRO to work with domestic MSMEs and explained the roadmap that ISRO has developed for next 5 years to work jointly with them to build

capacity in the interest of the nation. He proposed ELCINA to look for other markets as well, such as Bangladesh and other SAARC nations where domestically produced

electronics products cater to the demand and asked ELCINA to find different ways to generate funds for MSMEs.

Dr. PV Venkitakrishnan, OS & Director, Capacity Building Program, ISRO- talked about contribution by ISRO within growing initiatives/actions undertaken for the electronics industry by Government of India. Explained about the incubation program of ISRO across 6

regions in India. He further mentioned “To achieve shorter turnaround time for realising ambitious missions of ISRO, it needs wider participation of industries through technology

transfer, technology utilization, industry production and vendor development”

Col. H.S. Shankar (Retd.), CMD, Alpha Design Technologies - Gave a lot of

importance to form consortium among MSMEs and serve to Defence as well as Aerospace sector. He believed that each MSME has some specific expertise in various fields so after forming clusters, MSMEs can divide the work and provide finished product to market very

quickly maintaining good quality. He asked ELCINA to form a consortium of not only domestic enterprises or MSMEs but also with interested global players. So, ISRO can finish

their ambitious missions without much difficulties and do wonders for the globe. He ended with a statement, “FOR CO-OPERATION IN SPACE, SKY IS NOT THE LIMIT”.

Mr. C.D. Shridhara, Director, Ananth Technologies Ltd.- has mentioned about the

support received from ISRO in manpower training and facility certification etc. He also talked about the importance of capacity building for producing large scale production for

Defence and Aerospace industry. He talked briefly about the interest of private players and their contribution in service providing and provisions for launching activities to their

organization.

Mr. M. Anilkumar, Director, SLN Technologies & Chairman IESA- has suggested industries to start with getting the complete understanding on the thinking and working

style of India’s strategic sectors. MSMEs need to understand their strength and expertise and accordingly need to tap the specific demand of Aerospace sector. He also talked about

the initiative of ISRO to conduct seminars for MSMEs to educate them about specific requirements. ISRO handholds the industries right from registration to becoming a

supplier. He proposed “DRDO and ISRO can conduct knowledge sharing sessions with vendors/ partners about design/development capabilities of different technologies.”

Conclusions All the major initiatives of ISRO are discussed which are taken to work with domestic MSMEs and explained the roadmap that ISRO has developed for next 5 years to work jointly with them

to build capacity in the interest of the nation. They also talked about the incubation program of ISRO across 6 regions in India. They mentioned about the support received from ISRO in manpower training and facility certification etc. Apart from this they discussed that industries

should start with getting the complete understanding on the thinking and working style of India’s strategic sectors. MSMEs need to understand their strength and expertise and

accordingly need to tap the specific demand of Aerospace sector. Speakers gave a lot of importance to form consortium among MSMEs.

Special Talk

“Building IoT Ecosystem” by Mr. Munir Mohammad, Senior

Program Manager, IEEE- started with telling growth

numbers in IoT domain. The number of connected devices are going to be huge in numbers

approximately 50 billion by 2020. Global IoT revenue in 2020 is

going to reach $373 billion mark and India will account for $10-12 billion out of the total.

He also added that IoT portal initiative of IEEE to serve as the

gathering place for the global technical community working on IoT. To provide the platform where professionals learn, share knowledge and collaborate on sweeping convergence of technologies, markets, applications and the internet together change the world.

Session III- “Catalysing Start-up ecosystem for Strategic Electronics”

Guest of Honour Admiral V.M. Doss, VSM, ACNS (Air Material),

Indian Navy

Mr. Mudit Narayan, Innovation for Defence Excellence (iDEX)

Mr. N K Mohapatra, CEO, Electronics Sector Skill Council

Mr Harikrishnan Purvankara, CEO BlackPepper Technologies

Dr. Swaroop Ganguly, Co-Professor IIT Bombay Research Park

Prof. K. R. Anupama, Professor and Associate Dean BITS – Pilani (Goa Campus)

Mr. Harish Mysore, Sr. Director – IEEE India Operations

Speakers @ Dias

Guest of Honour: Rear Admiral V.M. Doss, VSM, ACNS (Air Material), Indian Navy had begun the talk with the start-up India initiative taken by Government of India (GoI).

As per the current scenario, there are approximately 11000 start-ups have been registered with this platform across 50 industries and the maximum number of start-ups are in the

field of IT but surprisingly only 85 registrations happened in the sector of Aerospace, Aeronautics & in Defence. He further explained how the current government is inviting more and more start-ups to join in without any financial commitments.

He suggested that the possible solution to encourage more and more start-ups is to make available incubation centre in every Science & Technology college/university and a

guidance from industry expert should be made available to make students aware about industry issues.

Mr. Mudit Narayan, Innovation for Defence Excellence (iDEX) explained the

objective of setting up iDEX and how it is going to be helpful to the start-ups, aerospace and defence sectors. iDEX is to provide ecosystem to start-ups where they can encourage

as well as educate start-ups on defence needs. It would facilitate advance QA and testing for military level compliance and help innovators to raise funds. It is planning to launch empowered culture to “Fail fast and recover faster” in tech co-creation.

Mr. N K Mohapatra, CEO, Electronics Sector Skill Council- talked about the loopholes present in the engineering education system. There should be much weightage given for the practical industrial problem solving in campus during course of engineering otherwise

any push for start-ups would not give the desired results. Currently some of the initiatives are taken in every engineering college by the name “Engineering Exploration programme”,

where 1st year students are taught on understanding of a problem and various ways to solve it. He further said, “everybody expects a start-up to bring some idea which can be developed as a product/solution and bridge the gaps but at the same time the

entrepreneur has to face society and government in licences, polices, finances etc. and 70 % of his mind is consumed in doing non-technical work and he is involved only in 30%

technical work and we expect him to bring innovative solutions to the society which is not possible”.

Mr. Harikrishnan Purvankara, CEO, BlackPepper Technologies, started with the

importance of technology development in Defence sector that eventually helps in the growth of the nation. Previously every new technology was first getting developed in

defence sector and later it used to commercialize. Now the technologies are developed seeing their commercial use first and defence sector is nowhere in the picture domestically

in this race. The support from domestic industries has become a need of defence and aerospace sector to make our nation self-reliant.

Dr. Swaroop Ganguly, Co-Professor, IIT Bombay Research Park, spoke about the semiconductor technology gap in strategic electronics. The current challenges that are

currently being faced are high manufacturing cost, price competitiveness, limited skilled manpower and limited technology development capability etc. A triad for collaborative technology development would require from Industry, Government and Academia to

develop ESDM ecosystem. He informed about the setting up of Research Park to enable translation of research in to

technologies with high societal impact. The nanoelectronics centre at IIT Bombay proposes a pre-competitive R&D consortium for the development of semiconductor technologies Prof. K. R. Anupama, Professor and Associate Dean, BITS – Pilani (Goa Campus), explained

the story about the universities encouraging start-ups. Start-ups in the universities are cultivated by entrepreneur cells, course on entrepreneurship, technology incubators etc.

There are several challenges that are faced in start-up incubation such as sustainability of start-ups, Manpower challenges, heavy regulatory requirements, One to one handholding, shorter technology cycle than procurement cycle of the gov. She spoke about the

numerous research work that is done at the universities in existing as well as growing technologies in IoT, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence etc. but there is huge gap

between research, Prototype and product and one of the great ideas do get lost in to these gaps.

Mr. Harish Mysore, Sr. Director – IEEE India Operations highlighted the things which are lacking in Indian industries. Domestic companies think to develop something for India,

in India & by India. We don’t see things at global level. Indian start-ups are missing things in innovation and India adopts to technology, when it is already matured. India is good at service part of any technology but not in product development or designing. It is

dependent on imports. One of the insight provided by him is, In India very few hardware companies follow standards of IEEE or 3GPP or ITU etc. but global companies like CISCO

they follow standards in every product that is the reason they are successful. He further said, “In India, there are so many MSME companies are talking about 5g, IoT etc, but they are not able to mark their names at global level. Whenever these companies

are growing and reaching to a decent level gets acquired by large companies or global players and technology innovation goes away from MEMEs”.

Conclusions

Started with several challenges that are being faced in start-up incubation such as

sustainability of start-ups, Manpower challenges, heavy regulatory requirements, one to one handholding, shorter technology cycle than procurement cycle of the Government etc.

Another issue was raised on the standards that, in India very few hardware companies follow standards of IEEE or 3GPP or ITU etc. For these problems different possible solution discussed to encourage more and more start-ups by providing incubation centres in every

Science & Technology college/university and a guidance from industry experts and there should be much weightage given for the practical industrial problem solving in campus

during course of engineering. There are different platforms such as iDEX are started which would facilitate advance QA and testing for military level compliance and help innovators to raise funds. Setting up of Research Park in IIT Bombay was also covered in the discussion

to enable translation of research in to technologies with high societal impact.

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