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Indian firms bag awards at tools summit

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cutting edge: Recipients of awards at the NIWeek summit in Austin, Texas, on Tuesday.

Austin (Texas), U.S.: India was seen as a formidable design powerhouse at the annual “NIWeek” summit of the U.S.-based measurement and design automation leader, National Instruments, which ended here on Thursday.

Indian test and measurement companies bagged five of the 18 awards announced in an international contest of innovative applications based on NI’s suite of tools for rapid design and prototyping — two of the winners rated as the best in their class worldwide.

Bangalore-based automation specialists Captronic Systems were rated number one in two categories: Electrical/Electronics and Control for their innovations which helped HAL to test a starter-generator combo as well as building a rugged digital controller for the hydraulic valves that go into an aircraft.

Another application that emerged a finalist was a portable event monitoring system, also deployed by HAL. Captronic’s Managing Director Vinod Mathews told The Hindu that the company, soon after receiving the triple accolade, w as attracting a lot of interest for outsourced product and solution development from U.S.-based players and it opened an office in Atlanta, Georgia, to handle them. The other Indian player, Chennai-based Apna Technologies, was honoured for its work in creating a system that rapidly tested the braking systems of vehicles for Brakes India and helped test high power vacuum tubes for Bharat Electronics. The awards were received by its CEO Baskar Ceri.

National Instruments India’s Managing Director Jayaram Pillai explained that Indians contributed the highest number of entries — country-wise — year after year. NI’s flagship product is LabView — a graphical design platform that helped engineers use a standard personal computer to create a Virtual Instrumentation system.

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