Heavy industry needs systems that survive the plant floor
The Durgapur–Asansol–Burnpur corridor is one of India's densest concentrations of steel, power and heavy engineering — and one of the least served by serious industrial software.
Plants along this corridor generate an extraordinary volume of data and report almost all of it by hand. Production, yield, energy per tonne, downtime with reasons, quality results — measured continuously by instrumentation and transcribed every morning into a spreadsheet.
The gap is not measurement. It is aggregation, calculation and delivery, and it is precisely the kind of unglamorous engineering that gets deferred indefinitely because nobody's job title owns it.
We work along this corridor regularly and we arrive knowing the vocabulary — heat numbers, ladle chemistry, mould level, specific energy, reheat soaking curves, clinker TPD, specific heat consumption, TSR. That shortens discovery from weeks to days.
Where the value sits in this corridor
Yield and energy, in that order. In steel, a yield gain of one to one and a half percentage points is routinely available without capital investment, purely from decomposing loss into its components — melting, casting, scale, crop, finishing — and attributing each by shift, grade and section.
Energy follows. Specific energy at heat level, comparable across crews and grades, with time-of-day tariffs applied so the report shows rupees rather than units. That single change alters scheduling behaviour immediately.
In cement, the equivalent is automated EOD reporting with specific heat consumption, TSR, specific power and WHR share computed at the cut-off rather than assembled the next morning — which is exactly what our AURA platform does, entirely on-premise.
Where we work here
How we work with plants here
Narrow and provable. The first engagement is almost always whichever report currently takes the most manual effort — usually the daily production and dispatch summary. It saves visible effort immediately and establishes the data capture everything else builds on.
Everything runs read-only against your control systems. Nothing is installed on DCS, PLC or SCADA hardware, and the plant operates exactly as it does today. For groups whose data cannot leave site, the entire stack deploys inside your firewall with no internet path.
What being near you actually changes
Proximity is easy to claim and harder to demonstrate, so it is worth being specific about where it makes a measurable difference. It matters most in discovery. A specification written from a video call describes what people say they do; a day spent watching the work describes what they actually do, and those are rarely the same document. Almost every scope we have revised for the better was revised after someone stood beside the process.
It matters again at rollout. Adoption of a new system depends far more on being in the room during the first week than on the quality of the training material. When a supervisor finds a screen slower than the register it replaced, that needs to be seen, timed and fixed within a day — not raised as a ticket, triaged, and addressed a fortnight later by which point the register is back in use.
And it matters when something goes wrong. A managed client with a system we operate has an escalation path that reaches a named engineer, and for anything genuinely serious that engineer can be at your premises the same day rather than the same week. In twenty years we have needed that a handful of times, and on each of those occasions it was the difference between an incident and a crisis.
What does not require proximity is the build itself. Two-week slices with a demo every alternate Friday on a real staging URL, written notes after every review, and a named engineer reachable on WhatsApp work identically whether you are in Salt Lake or Singapore. We are deliberate about which phases need presence and which do not, and we budget travel into the proposal rather than treating it as an extra.
In person vs remote
- Discovery workshops and site studies — in person, always.
- Design reviews at each stage — in person where practical.
- Build and iteration — remote, with a fortnightly demo on a staging URL.
- Rollout and first-week support — in person, because adoption depends on it.
- Ongoing support and development — remote, with on-site for serious incidents.
First visit is free
Anywhere in and around Durgapur & Asansol, at no cost and with no obligation. For plant and operations work it usually changes the scope for the better, which is worth more to both of us than the day it costs.
Areas we serve around Durgapur & Asansol
Working with us from Durgapur & Asansol
Call +91 70033 91355 and you will speak to an engineer. The first visit is at no cost.
No. We read tags over a read-only OPC or historian connection and nothing is installed on control hardware. Our AURA platform has no write capability to control systems at all — it is architectural rather than a configuration setting. The plant operates exactly as it does today.
It is the default for our industrial work. The entire system runs on a server inside your firewall and writes reports to your local shared drive over the LAN. No internet path, no cloud, no external transfer. Head-office consolidation of aggregated figures can be added as an explicit decision.
Yes, routinely. Tag inventory, plant walks and parallel-run verification all require being on site, and Durgapur and Asansol are a comfortable drive. We budget for it rather than trying to do industrial discovery over video.
Tell us what is slowing your business down.
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