BIG BOOST TO THE INDUSTRY

The machine tool industry is essential for the success of the aerospace & defence sector in India. We can already visualise the positive impact of “Make in India”, and with “Atmanirbhar Bharat” the machine tool industry will foresee big boost undoubtedly, says Mihir Baxi, President – Global Sales, Jyoti CNC Automation Ltd.

- Niranjan Mudholkar

The aerospace & defence sector is an extremely difficult sector to work with for the machine tools industry due to stringent technical specifications, difficult to machine materials and high precision components. Tell us about your experience of working with this sector.

Aerospace and defence are among the two critical segments for development. Both the sectors which often overlap each other throw immense opportunities for machine tool industry. The twin sectors are attracting and manufacturing industries are evolving in India. Undoubtedly, these two sectors are definitely giving more opportunities to Indian machine tool builders but at the same time there is a big vacuum in the technologies demanded by manufacturers and unavailability of such technologies with the machine tool industry of India leads to lot of R&D is involvement. These sectors look for machine tool builders with proven solutions to meet their requirement. Since the references are not available, machine tool builder finds it difficult to cater to the needs of the aerospace and defence sector.