ELGi Equipments, one of the world’s leading air-compressor manufacturers, showcased its ‘Air Alert’, an Industry 4.0 initiative, recently. Air Alert is a SIM card-based communication system that will track multiple parameters within a compressor, such as operating temperature, pressure, volume of air delivered and energy efficiency. As a standard, free of cost service, ELGi will aim to have 500 Air Alert devices for its screw compressor range in the field by the end of the 2017.
The data will be transmitted to ELGi’s servers, where its engineers will review the data and provide meaningful insights to the customer on service intervals, energy efficiency, changes in air consumption, and general compressor health. The initiative will elevate ELGi’s service to its customers effectively, eliminating service delays and compressor failures, which can result in expensive downtime for them. Air Alert will also provide meaningful field data for the ELGi engineers to address quality concerns real time and integrate relevant changes into ELGi’s product development process.
Earlier in the year, Mr. Jairam Varadaraj, CEO, declared ELGi’s aspiration to be the No.2 player in the world. He said that ELGi’s growth would derive from its investments in technology and innovation such as the Air Alert system.
Commenting on the launch, Mr. Anvar Jay Varadaraj, Head of Marketing and Corporate Communications, ELGi Equipments, said: “The showcase of our Air Alert system is a significant step in our efforts to be more customer centric and data driven as we seek to provide the most efficient compressed air solutions. Gathering data is easy, but analysing it and providing meaningful insights to customers will set us apart. As a quality and innovation centric organization, Air Alert will play a key role in our product development processes. The system will provide us objective data on our products’ performance in the field making it a valuable tool for our quality and product development processes. Fundamentally, Air Alert is about elevating our customer service and by providing it free of cost, we will emphasize our ‘Always Better’ brand promise to our customers. We aim to have the 500 Air Alert equipped machines by the end of 2017”.
Air Alert is ELGi’s sim-based IOT initiative that transmits customers’ compressor data such as power consumption, pressure, air volume and temperature to ELGi.
ELGi will monitor the data and provide insights to customers on service, opportunities for energy efficiency, and air consumption best practices. It will use the data for quality improvements and product development
Air Alert will be a free of cost standard offering to all ELGi screw air compressor customers. The company will have 500 Air Alert systems by the end 2017.