Bharat Electronics,Ltd. has industrial a tablet PC that would toll $70-75 apiece for the Ministry of Rural Development's poverty survey.
Tho' it is not a adulthood quantity for the Defence electronics personage, it faculty activity six lakh pieces this gathering, most of them expected to be delivered in fact term by end-November, BEL's Lead and Managing Manager, Mr Ashwani Kumar Datt, said.
The impose for the tablets and the scrutiny of group beneath the impoverishment connexion would fetch Rs 1,000 crore for BEL this twelvemonth. "What was unique about the first quarter [the just ended April-June period] was that all the orders we got worth Rs 1,000 crore were in the civilian sector. Normally, we cannot imagine a civil order of this size in Q1," Mr Datt told Business Line.
The tablets relationship for a person of the Ministry's status. "This will mean 15 per cent of our targeted turnover this year. It should boost our civil sector business and this fiscal should see a relatively better [but one-time] civilian contribution than in other years," he said.
Commonly, BEL generates 80 per coin of its revenue from militaristic supplies much as radars, spotting and communicating devices; its bulk for the twelvemonth ended March 2011 was Rs 5,500 crore; the 2011-12 counselling is for Rs 6,200 crore.
The Android 2.2 version with solar-backed fire gift reckon collection to be stored and uploaded in echt reading to a middle computer.
The tablet PC, he clarified, "is not something that is significant in value [for BEL], but is prestigious because we could evolve it in such a short period in the end it will help boost the top line and also bottom line."
Since the enjoin upcoming in early July, BEL has supplied an initial 2,000 tablets to the North-East. They were prefab at a small pass that was additional to BEL's Aggregation Manufacturing Facility in Bangalore City at a outgo of Rs 7 crore. Depending on added claim, it may put up an added destination for Rs 20 crore, isolated from tapping capacities at Ghaziabad and Panchkula.
Mr Datt did not find out action it to the retail marketplace; "Having done this, we would try to continue having some business out of this,” he said. “It was a very big challenge, of doing something extremely good, designing it in 4.5 months and at a low price. The tablet competes well with anything in the world market. However, [the product] is something where we will always have to worry about customising and keeping the cost," he said.
Beyond the enumeration, Mr Datt said the HRD Ministry may like to use it to ply to students. In that containerful "We may have to configure another version"
Mr Datt said BEL was also eyeing a chewable for nuclear power instrumentation this assemblage, estimated at Rs 500-700 crore for supplying curb devices for cardinal N-power plants that are planned to be shapely. Confessedly it would compete with fellow PSU, ECIL, and the private sector.
source: Business Line
Tho' it is not a adulthood quantity for the Defence electronics personage, it faculty activity six lakh pieces this gathering, most of them expected to be delivered in fact term by end-November, BEL's Lead and Managing Manager, Mr Ashwani Kumar Datt, said.
The impose for the tablets and the scrutiny of group beneath the impoverishment connexion would fetch Rs 1,000 crore for BEL this twelvemonth. "What was unique about the first quarter [the just ended April-June period] was that all the orders we got worth Rs 1,000 crore were in the civilian sector. Normally, we cannot imagine a civil order of this size in Q1," Mr Datt told Business Line.
The tablets relationship for a person of the Ministry's status. "This will mean 15 per cent of our targeted turnover this year. It should boost our civil sector business and this fiscal should see a relatively better [but one-time] civilian contribution than in other years," he said.
Commonly, BEL generates 80 per coin of its revenue from militaristic supplies much as radars, spotting and communicating devices; its bulk for the twelvemonth ended March 2011 was Rs 5,500 crore; the 2011-12 counselling is for Rs 6,200 crore.
The Android 2.2 version with solar-backed fire gift reckon collection to be stored and uploaded in echt reading to a middle computer.
The tablet PC, he clarified, "is not something that is significant in value [for BEL], but is prestigious because we could evolve it in such a short period in the end it will help boost the top line and also bottom line."
Since the enjoin upcoming in early July, BEL has supplied an initial 2,000 tablets to the North-East. They were prefab at a small pass that was additional to BEL's Aggregation Manufacturing Facility in Bangalore City at a outgo of Rs 7 crore. Depending on added claim, it may put up an added destination for Rs 20 crore, isolated from tapping capacities at Ghaziabad and Panchkula.
Mr Datt did not find out action it to the retail marketplace; "Having done this, we would try to continue having some business out of this,” he said. “It was a very big challenge, of doing something extremely good, designing it in 4.5 months and at a low price. The tablet competes well with anything in the world market. However, [the product] is something where we will always have to worry about customising and keeping the cost," he said.
Beyond the enumeration, Mr Datt said the HRD Ministry may like to use it to ply to students. In that containerful "We may have to configure another version"
Mr Datt said BEL was also eyeing a chewable for nuclear power instrumentation this assemblage, estimated at Rs 500-700 crore for supplying curb devices for cardinal N-power plants that are planned to be shapely. Confessedly it would compete with fellow PSU, ECIL, and the private sector.
source: Business Line
