T&M Industry in India : What can be learned as we move ahead?

The T&M industry in India is very forward looking,as the way they have taken to new approaches in the organisation design, development of processes and commercial systems and adoption of Global Best practices it is safe to assume it is much to look ahead. The main issue seems to be reaching a revenue base which is critical for taking off,as most of  the T&M boxes businesses are highly concentrated in few cities, few customers and few end use sectors as such. The reason why it is so concentrated is perhaps because the two sectors which could have gone long way  - Education and Manufacturing  could not.

Be it that may, Here we are ! We need to see what can we learn with the Global trend in T&M technologies and development of new architectures and platforms besides making sure that the portables type of T&M products also  are with the modern trend elsewhere.On portables first,there is clear emphasis  on developing  MINIMALIST  features which have sufficient attributes but stripped of loaded Costs and prices. We do find lot of very low cost products developed for the Field Service applications eg  Low Cost Signal Generators and Spectrum Analysers in the Global market. Another interesting feature is the hooking to the keyboard with the USB or even Super-USB connectors.Also there is abundant miniaturisation by nano-technology or newer lithographic  techniques to reduce platform size.

New architectures are also emerging which is driven by standardisation to PXI modules.This helps many times the ATE design more compact and suits test OEMs immensely. Along with the switches and other accessories the ATE becomes more compact and economical.I think the T&M architecture in immediate future is heading in PXI way going by the Dollar figures accrued to this format year over year.

I think both these major trends internationally will support the needs of the Indian market. Our markets in emerging fields of Aerospace / Defense and also the other field service markets of Commercial communication and broadcasting require these type of formats extensively.Let us see if the local industry tunes into these forms and architectures to develop volumes here!