Pugal is an industry professional with 25 years of experience in the auto, trucking, and machinery industry around product development, manufacturing, and after market space. He has a proven track record in building and deploying large scale industrial solutions around the world. Pugal has over 10 years of experience in running a global Industrial practice around bill of materials (engineering, manufacturing, prototype, and service BoMs) and configuration management (includes alliances, business development, customer engagement, proposals, etc.). He has consistently applied new technology to streamline traditional product development, product validation, manufacturing, and support processes. He strongly believes in transforming these processes again with IoT and machine learning.