Recently, the 16th NCB international seminar on Cement, Concrete and Building Materials during December 3-6, 2019 at Zorawar Auditorium, Manekshaw Centre, New Delhi was successfully organised under the leadership of Dr BN Mohapatra.

Cloud-connected, digital field devices have arrived with a broader value proposition than their legacy counterparts, but it's still all about building a business case.

Given the slowing demand, sluggish pricing, and upward pressure on RM prices, cement companies will be under tremendous pressure to achieve and meet their financial targets and goals

With companies giving way to specialists in their lubrication management, we can only hope that plants may not encounter as many downtimes in the years to come.

Attendance recording system in most large organisations has gone through a major change in this era of Industry 4.0, as efficient and fool proof systems using the latest technology are available, though they could be expensive, says Dr Rajen Mehrotra.

Lubrication is generally taken for granted and little do O&M people realise that lubrication planning starts right from the arrival of lubricants in the main stores.

Imported coal prices have been on the declining trend for the last three months and have come off almost $25 since January and about $35 from the peak levels in July/August 2018, says ES Reddy.

Indian cement industry has already crossed several milestones on energy efficiency and sustainability parameters.

In the next 10 years (next decade), enterprises will tend to have an employment model where the permanent workers which presently is nearly 30 per cent will fall further and become 10 to 15 per cent of the workforce.