{"id":169426,"date":"2018-07-05T11:46:03","date_gmt":"2018-07-05T11:46:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=169426"},"modified":"2018-07-05T11:46:03","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T11:46:03","slug":"abb-india-plans-expansion-of-facilities-to-cater-to-demands-of-railways","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/abb-india-plans-expansion-of-facilities-to-cater-to-demands-of-railways\/","title":{"rendered":"ABB India plans expansion of facilities to cater to demands of railways"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Power and automation technology firm ABB India is looking to expand its facilities to cater to growing demands from railways and also increasing focus on renewable energy space, a top company official said today.<\/p>\n<p>The company said it spends about USD 100 million on its business in the country every year, ABB India Managing Director Sanjeev Sharma said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are expanding our factories to cater to the requirements of Railways because the Railways is expanding a lot. They (Railways) are spending a lot specially on the electrical side. (In) electrical locomotives, a lot of technology is demanded that demand is really picking up. That is where we see expansion of our factories,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What we do going forward is we continue to evolve. On an average we continue to invest USD 100 million every year in the country,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Renewable energy, he said, is another area where the country expects good expansion.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our solar factories have expanded. Now solar factory in India has become global feeder factory,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>As there is a big movement in the area of digitalisation, Sharma said it is another area in which the company is working in a good way.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Machine learning and artificial intelligence is another big area that we are partnering with the industry, government like NITI Aayog for example,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>ABB India and Niti Aayog had in May inked a pact to help the country reap the benefits of latest technologies including robotics and artificial intelligence.<\/p>\n<p>The company had also signed a memorandum of understanding with the Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee for technical cooperation to construct an operational smart electricity distribution network and management system in latter&#8217;s campus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Power and automation technology firm ABB India is looking to expand its facilities to cater to growing demands from railways and also increasing focus on renewable energy space, a top company official said today. The company said it spends about USD 100 million on its business in the country every year, ABB India Managing Director Sanjeev Sharma said. &#8220;We are expanding our factories to cater to the requirements of Railways because the Railways is expanding a lot. They (Railways) are spending a lot specially on the electrical side. (In) electrical locomotives, a lot of technology is demanded that demand is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-power"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169426\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}