Wipro Enterprises: “We have provided customers between 7% and 15% throughput increase right after Linecraft application,” said Ranjit Date, co-CEO at PARI. “That’s effectively free money for the customer… By using the same equipment, same capex, same plants, a machine is now getting 15% more production.”
The Bengaluru-headquartered company didn t reveal finances of the deal to bag India’s largest automation company. “PARI brings in the domain expertise, technical capability and customer centricity for turnkey automation solutions. It has rich experience and completes our overall proposition to serve globally going forward,” said G Sundararaman, Senior VP and Business Head, Wipro Infrastructure Engineering (WIN) Automation. With this acquisition WIN Automation will be focussing on segments such as engineering, aerospace, railways, hybrid industries like pharma and FMCG to provide turnkey solutions in industrial automation. PARI which has an annual turnover of Rs 500 crore is the largest automation company in India which exports end-to-end automation solutions to companies worldwide including Ford, Suzuki, Renault, Daimler. Automotive manufacturers such as Tata Motors and Maruti are some of their customers in India.