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ABB inaugurated an innovative microgrid solution at its Vadodora manufacturing facility in Gujarat, India. This is the company’s largest facility in India, with over 3,000 employees and among ABB’s biggest manufacturing hubs in the world.

TECHgium is an educational initiative for young engineers that results in proof of concepts in machine learning, video analytics, smart tools, augmented reality, IoT platforms, and other exciting areas. This is a unique initiative to share end user challenges and pain points with students and ask them to come up with innovative solutions. The aim is to provide engineering students with relevant exposure to the challenges and practical insights for Industrie 4.0. TECHgium will create an ecosystem that bridges the industry-academia divide by providing the participants with an opportunity to work on technologies of tomorrow, enhance their career prospects, and simultaneously augment LTTS’ solution development team.

Saudi Aramco, the world's largest oil producer, signed an agreement to pick up 50 percent stake in a planned $44-billion refinery-cum-petrochemical project in Maharashtra, India - a move that will give it an assured customer for additional 30 million tons of its crude oil.

Bharat Petroleum Mumbai Refinery (BPCL-MR) is in Mahul, India and has the capacity to process 12 million metric tons of crude oil per year.

L&T Technology Services (LTTS) created a sensor that continuously transmits vibration data using ZigBee for wireless transmission.

ABB India recently inaugurated one of the first smart factories in Bangalore, India for the production of electrical protection and connection solutions.

L&T Technology Services (LTTS) partnered with a Japanese food processing company to develop a sensor node and IoT gateway for measuring and transmitting vibration data from the conveyors.

Earlier this month, the heads of about 40 countries landed in India for the first official Summit of the International Solar Alliance (ISA). The ISA is a non-profit, treaty-based group of 121 countries advocating the use of solar energy; it is a coalition of countries lying fully, or partially, between the tropics, mostly developing countries, which although endowed with excellent insolation (solar radiation that reaches the earth's surface), are energy deficient.

India’s information technology (IT) services industry continues its upward momentum as most of India’s IT services companies covered in the report exhibited above-average growth.