Ashwa Riders Unleashing Potential in Go Kart Engineering

For Sahil Mohan Dhabale, Engineering warranted sportsman spirit and a never-say-die attitude to keep up his team’s spirit. After all, engineering was never just a stream of study for his own success; he realized it was a portal of India’s latent potential in an interesting engineering field, karting or race engineering.

As a captain should lead from the front, Sahil rightly led his team “Ashwa-Riders” to victory in one India’s prestigious go-kart events, Indian Kart Racing Championship 2018 after early setbacks couple of years ago.

This is a saga of an extraordinary achievement. A group of final year students of Bachelor of Engineering of St. Vincent Pallotti College of Engineering and Technology formed a motorsport team named “Ashwa-Riders” in 2015 to make Go-Kart.  

The ebullient team participated in National Kart Racing Championship in the same year. The team tried to be their best but ended up ranking 20th position, only to have Sahil and company brooding over how to improve the project.

Time had an opportune moment and chance for them in store and the patent was approved by the government of India recently. This rejuvenated the team as it was a big break for them.

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Skill & Knowledge The Engines of Growth

Mahindra & Mahindra – Automotive Division has been time and again rated as one of the best manufacturing companies to work for. According to Mr. Vijay Kalra, this is a result of the engaging ecosystem that the Company creates for its employees. He says that a business cannot grow without the right people, for a manufacturing set up, success lies with a skilled workforce and world class automation.

In conversation with the Machine Maker, Mr. Vijay Kalra elaborately talks about the workforce and policies surrounding them. The zeal in his eyes and the zest in his words reflect his deep dedication for his work, great respect for his people, and the admiration for his company.

Ashok Leyland, MLS Claas India, DCM Toyota, Toyota Motor Corp., Daewoo motors Ltd. and General Motors

At Mahindra & Mahindra’s Automotive Division there are 20,000 blue-collar and 5,000 white-collar strong workforce. The firm has over 2 Lakh people working directly with Mahindra & Mahindra and these numbers will grow. The ‘Make in India’ mission will fuel these numbers not only in Mahindra but in all the Manufacturing Industries. Mr. Kalra is proud that at Mahindra, everyone is committed to imparting the required skills and providing the required capability building tools to all workforce as well as ensuring that at the work force at the Vendors / Supplier end is also at par with best practices, required skill set and overall empowered individuals.

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Innovation with Market Sense and Business Strategy is key to Success

The sheer thirst for knowledge and the proclivity to invent new equipment shaped Mr. Satish Pathak’s life. In a country where engineering and engineers are aplenty and following trends is a norm, he chose to be an innovator, a trendsetter in his own capacity. Right from his childhood, Satish was intensely curious with an inclination to devise new plans of doing things. Machine Maker brings you the incredible tale of a Trailblazer, Satish Pathak, Founder and Managing Director of Pune based Samiep Technology Innovations Private Limited.

Interesting and sometimes funny stories are testimony to his innovative mind right from locking himself up inside a wardrobe to figure out its door close mechanism, to making sword shield from water drum lid during childhood play fencing, to actually making a make-shift helmet for mining workers without even having the preemptive knowledge of existence of such a helmet in reality.     

This tendency to generate something new found him a conducive environment when he joined NRC. After completion of engineering studies, Satish joined the firm on a no-pay basis till his college results were declared. It was at NRC where his appetite for innovation received the right fodder. Satish’s immediate boss, Mr. A. S. Bhalode, was interested in R&D, which gave him the right platform.

Though his job role was restricted to maintenance of instrumentation and control, his enthusiasm propelled him to get involved in the repair of analog electronic process equipment at the component level, electro-pneumatic parts, and mechanical parts. His accountability for process control loops honed his abilities about debugging the control loops for all its elements such as sensors, instruments, transmitters, valves, and actuators and the interconnectivity down the line to rectifying a faulty IC, transistor, or some other electronic component. Satish got comprehensive knowledge ranging from sensor concepts to complete process control in a running plant. True to his naturality, he devised some electronic instruments right from a scratch to replace some pneumatic instruments that had become obsolete. In all this efforts Satish had a supportive boss in Mr. Bhalode during this phase.

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