The light electrical engineering industry at present r a wide range of products including general utility fa lamps, batteries, refrigerators, conditioners and motor Electric fans industry commenced in the year 1921, a since then has made a remarkable and steady progre Electric lamp industry has made good progress es] cially since indeP7ndence, though it was established earli i.e., in the year 1932. The range of production inclue miniature lamps for torches, automobiles, cycle dynam fluorescent tubes, mercury vapour lamps and bulbs. Muml and Kolkata are the largest centres of production.
Production of dry and storage batteries started in t 1930s but got a fillip during the Second World War. Stora batteries are mainly required for motor vehicles, tr, lighting, posts and telegraphs apparatus and power house as well as batteries for traction.
Machine tools form the basis for the manufacture industrial machinery, defence equipment, automobiles, ra way engines and electrical machinery. The range of IT chine tools now being manufactured in India covers su items as lathes, drilling machines, gear bobbers and ge shapers, boring machines, slothing machines, unit he, power hammers, mechanical and hydraulic presses, we] ing machines, furnaces and rolling mills.
Hindustan Machine Tools (HMT), a public sector u dertaking located in Bangalore, is the pioneering and t largest manufacturer of machine tools in the country. It w set up in 1953 in collaboration with the Swiss and t production started in 1956. The multi-unit company produces a wide range of machines like printing machinel lamp-making machinery, high precision lathes, radial driing machines, gears, etc. Two units are located at Bangalore and the others at Pinjore (Haryana), Kalamassery (Kerala), Ajmer and Hyderabad.
Besides HMT, other producers are the Machine Tool Corporation of India set up in 1967 in collaboration with the Czech government at Ajmer; Instrumentation Ltd., having a plant at Kota for precision instruments and one for mechanical instruments at Palakkad (Kerala) set up with financial and technical assistance from the former USSR government; the Heavy Machine Tools Plant .set up at Ranchi with Czech assistance for production of radial drilling machines, double column planning machines, centrallathes, etc.; the Praga Tools Ltd. of Secunderabad under defence administration mainly meant for producing highly sophisticated defence equipments; the National Instruments Factory at Kolkata which produces precision instruments such as drawing instruments, office equipment, survey instruments, binoculars and blood pressure equipments. There are also several private sector units dispersed all over the country with a greater concentration at Mumbai, Kolkata, Delhi, Chennai, Bangalore and Coimbatore.
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Thursday, November 5, 2009
Engineering Industry
Germany Essen, Dusseldorf, Dortmund, etc., in the Ruhr Basin are famous centres of machine building in Germany. Solingen is famous for manufacturing cutlery and tools.
France In France, automobiles are manufactured at Clermont Ferrand; textile machinery at Valenciennes and Lille; and heavy machines and locomotives at St. Etienne and Creusot.
Russia Russia is amongst the leading nations in the field of locomoti~es. Voroshilovgrad, Donetsk, Gorky, Kharkov and Omsk are the main centres of locomotive production in the country.
India The machine tool industry which produces machinery for other industries is a specialised field. Machine-tool plants are generally located in long established industrial areas with a ready supply of skilled labour. The developed countries all have good base in engineering industries which include, besides machine tools, electrical goods and electronic systems and transport equipment.
This sector of the industry developed in India only after independence. Before that the country totally depended on imports. Heavy engineering industry produces capital goods and consumer durables and its products can be put into the following categories-industrial machinery or capital goods, power generation equipment, transport equipment, rail equipment, aircraft building and ship building.
Engineering industry requires foundry-grade iron, alloys and special tools as raw materials. These are now produced in almost every part of the country to be used for further fabrication into a wide range of machine tools, machinery and equipment.
The industry also requires skilled labour. This industry is mostly scattered in and around Jamshedpur, Durgapur, Kolkata, Nagpur, Delhi, Chennai, Bhadravati, Bangalore, Mumbai, Thane, Pune, Ahmedabad, Kanpur, Agra, Faridabad and Lucknow.
Industrial Machinery units produce capital goods for iron and steel industry, fertiliser industry, mining, construction machinery, sugar industry, textile industry, agricultural machinery, tractors, pumps, diesel engines, etc. The setting up of the Heavy Engineering Corporation at Ranchi in 1958 gave a major boost to heavy engineering industry in India. The HEC has three projects-the heavy machine building plant, the heavy machine tool plant and the foundry forge plant. Besides meeting the requirements of the steel industry, the corporation also produces heavy crushing and grinding equipment, crane equipment, rolling mill equipment, mining equipment~ press forging equipment and oilwell drilling rigs. The Mining and Allied Machinery Corporation, Durgapur, produces coal mining machinery. The offshore drilling rigs are produced only at the. Mazagaon Docks, while onshore drilling equipment is produced at BHEL, Hyderabad.
The heavy electrical industry comprises equipment used for the generation, transmission, distribution and utilisation of power. It includes items such as generators, boilers, turbines, transformers and switchgears. Most these products are manufactured in the public sector companies like Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) , Heavy Electricals Limited (HEL).
BHEL has set up the following plants/units to augm the production of power generating equipments.
(i) Heavy electric equipments plant This was set up Soviet assistance at Ranipur (Hardwar) with the capae of producing 2.7 lakh KW of steam and water turbines a generators, and 5.2 lakh KW of industrial electric mote
(ii) Heavy power equipment plant It was set up Ramchandrapufilm (Andhra Pradesh) with the capacity manufacture 800 MW of steam turbines and turbo-alter] tors per annum.
(iii) High pressure boiler plant The plant has been set at Tiruchirapalli (Tamil Nadu) with the capacity of prod ing 12 high pressure boilers of a total of 750 MW capaCi boiler fittings and package boiler units per year.
(iv) The switch gear unit Set up at Ramachandrapur, (Andhra Pradesh), this unit produces air blast and miniml oil circuit breakers.
The other units of BHEL include Central Found, Forge Plant, Hardwar; Seamless Steel Tube Pia Tiruchirapalli; and Transformer Plant at Jhansi.
HEL was established at Bhopal in 1956 with I technical collaboration of a British firm. It produces stei turbines, turbo-alternators, transformers, freight locoD tives, capacitors using non-inflammable liquid dielectl control gears, switchgears, railway traction equipment, ~
France In France, automobiles are manufactured at Clermont Ferrand; textile machinery at Valenciennes and Lille; and heavy machines and locomotives at St. Etienne and Creusot.
Russia Russia is amongst the leading nations in the field of locomoti~es. Voroshilovgrad, Donetsk, Gorky, Kharkov and Omsk are the main centres of locomotive production in the country.
India The machine tool industry which produces machinery for other industries is a specialised field. Machine-tool plants are generally located in long established industrial areas with a ready supply of skilled labour. The developed countries all have good base in engineering industries which include, besides machine tools, electrical goods and electronic systems and transport equipment.
This sector of the industry developed in India only after independence. Before that the country totally depended on imports. Heavy engineering industry produces capital goods and consumer durables and its products can be put into the following categories-industrial machinery or capital goods, power generation equipment, transport equipment, rail equipment, aircraft building and ship building.
Engineering industry requires foundry-grade iron, alloys and special tools as raw materials. These are now produced in almost every part of the country to be used for further fabrication into a wide range of machine tools, machinery and equipment.
The industry also requires skilled labour. This industry is mostly scattered in and around Jamshedpur, Durgapur, Kolkata, Nagpur, Delhi, Chennai, Bhadravati, Bangalore, Mumbai, Thane, Pune, Ahmedabad, Kanpur, Agra, Faridabad and Lucknow.
Industrial Machinery units produce capital goods for iron and steel industry, fertiliser industry, mining, construction machinery, sugar industry, textile industry, agricultural machinery, tractors, pumps, diesel engines, etc. The setting up of the Heavy Engineering Corporation at Ranchi in 1958 gave a major boost to heavy engineering industry in India. The HEC has three projects-the heavy machine building plant, the heavy machine tool plant and the foundry forge plant. Besides meeting the requirements of the steel industry, the corporation also produces heavy crushing and grinding equipment, crane equipment, rolling mill equipment, mining equipment~ press forging equipment and oilwell drilling rigs. The Mining and Allied Machinery Corporation, Durgapur, produces coal mining machinery. The offshore drilling rigs are produced only at the. Mazagaon Docks, while onshore drilling equipment is produced at BHEL, Hyderabad.
The heavy electrical industry comprises equipment used for the generation, transmission, distribution and utilisation of power. It includes items such as generators, boilers, turbines, transformers and switchgears. Most these products are manufactured in the public sector companies like Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) , Heavy Electricals Limited (HEL).
BHEL has set up the following plants/units to augm the production of power generating equipments.
(i) Heavy electric equipments plant This was set up Soviet assistance at Ranipur (Hardwar) with the capae of producing 2.7 lakh KW of steam and water turbines a generators, and 5.2 lakh KW of industrial electric mote
(ii) Heavy power equipment plant It was set up Ramchandrapufilm (Andhra Pradesh) with the capacity manufacture 800 MW of steam turbines and turbo-alter] tors per annum.
(iii) High pressure boiler plant The plant has been set at Tiruchirapalli (Tamil Nadu) with the capacity of prod ing 12 high pressure boilers of a total of 750 MW capaCi boiler fittings and package boiler units per year.
(iv) The switch gear unit Set up at Ramachandrapur, (Andhra Pradesh), this unit produces air blast and miniml oil circuit breakers.
The other units of BHEL include Central Found, Forge Plant, Hardwar; Seamless Steel Tube Pia Tiruchirapalli; and Transformer Plant at Jhansi.
HEL was established at Bhopal in 1956 with I technical collaboration of a British firm. It produces stei turbines, turbo-alternators, transformers, freight locoD tives, capacitors using non-inflammable liquid dielectl control gears, switchgears, railway traction equipment, ~
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