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DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY

Digital technology
PIRAMAL GLASS

getting future-ready

Glass Machinery Plants & production, and decoration of (RTMI), on 46 production lines
Accessories (GMP&A): Your recent glass packaging (flaconnage) across four plants at Kosamba and
press release informed us that solutions for Pharmaceutical, Jambusar in Gujarat, India, Sri
you have set up an important Cosmetics & Perfumery, and Lanka and the United States. The
collaboration with Microsoft. How Specialty Food & Beverage plants have an overall capacity
do you expect this to improve and industries. We partnered with of 1,375 tons per day, with 12
change your production? What Microsoft for their Azure IoT furnaces and 60 production lines,
will be the outcome in terms of platform to digitally transform all of which run on a 24/7 basis.
production quantities and quality? our manufacturing operations. An We have leveraged IoT to get
Vijay Shah, Director - Piramal Glass early adopter of the technology, real-time visibility into our line
& Executive Director - Piramal we have currently implemented a manufacturing operations and to
Enterprises Ltd: Piramal Glass is custom-developed solution, Real- analyse production line losses at
a global specialist in the design, Time Manufacturing Insights various stages. With the Azure

Vijay Shah, Director
Piramal Glass & Executive Director
PIRAMAL ENTERPRISES LTD.

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