Varun Rajamane

@jauntalha If the design belongs to the customers, it's expected. The main purpose is to look for places where the cost can be reduced through the design process not by negotiation. A lot of companies took the easy route and started negotiating on the quoted margins instead.

manufacturers disclosing their costs and margins to clients is the worst trend in Indian manufacturing

@maahirpanchal I've had this problem before, SLDPRT and SLDASM links sometimes get lost during transfers to other software. Autodesk tries their best, but all the large contract manufacturing shops are expected to have major software, which is unrealistic. We wait for the age of FOSS in CAD.

Lost a client because we don't have Solidworks and only have access to Fusion360 / Siemens NX What even.

@cvkrishnan Check bullworkmobility.com

Wanted to see an Indian BobCat emerge. India has crazy demand for the next 3-4 decades for these kind of machinery. Across construction, small roads waste disposal etc.

@maahirpanchal Nobody paying for those Overheads in the BOM except Aerospace trying to maintain sub-micron.

TL;DR : CNC Machining can be a AC room, sitting job tbh. We had fully Air Conditioned machining rooms at ISRO during my research

@VishakhRanotra Nope, Windows only. The software itself is a good UI/UX on Calculix, which is more Command Line/script based. We've used fusion360 simulations and you hit a upper limit on capabilities very quickly for advanced products.

@zuron7 You’re the second person to recommend that. It’s not native to Mac, right?

It's done locally on your own system. Just the static stress. All the other simulations require cloud credits.

@MillionPageProj hackernews, but updates at 1/4th the speed, is a good strategy for a news portal.

Realising that maybe what I like best about The Brief is what moves it in the opposite direction from everything else in media: the lack of images!! I know literally everyone is moving to video first and image heavy layouts because that's catchy and information dense, but

@priteshlakhani Works well in rural areas, check this: youtube.com/watch?v=DOWDNB…

Supratech Labs in Ahmedabad has an army of blood collection agents who can come for a scheduled appointment and runs 24X7 operations. > They deliver your sample to their nearest lab in less than 20 minutes, and the labs process the sample. > Labs take the time they need. > Reports are sent via WhatsApp or email on time. What is the drone solving here?

@ivishaltejwani Most of the made in India ovens we buy also have quite bad PI Control of the temperature. Gotten much better over the past couple of years though.

so I have been calling companies to buy oven in bulk, and a strange discovery these ovens are imported and marked Made in India this is literally just a sheet metal case and 4 heating elements thats it It doesnt even have electronicsss, what is happening?????

@ranjodh2512 "Champions have OATS for breakfast" came true.

What happened to Ola Electric?

@DV_Apoorv @eTRNL_Energy @ianetwork @navamcapital @AnicutF @SpecialeInvest @MicelioMobility @IIMAVentures Congratulations!

Excited to share a major milestone for @eTRNL_Energy! 🚀 We've just closed our Seed funding round, raising ₹27.4 Crs. led by @ianetwork, with strong support from @navamcapital, @AnicutF , @SpecialeInvest, @MicelioMobility , @IIMAVentures, and visionary angels including @tarunsmehta and @swapniljain89 from Ather Energy. This investment fuels our mission to revolutionize energy storage with next-gen Lithium-ion battery cells that are safer, charge faster, last longer, and pack more energy—all while boosting manufacturing efficiency in India. A huge thank you to our incredible investors for believing in our vision and team. Special shoutout to my co-founder @UKSEN and our entire @eTRNL_Energy crew for their relentless innovation. This is just the beginning—stay tuned as we accelerate towards a sustainable future. If you're in cleantech, EVs, or energy storage, let's connect!! @visheshrajaram @Kun_Srivastav @saurabhchandra @Axilor_2025 @RMantri #Cleantech #BatteryInnovation #SeedFunding #StartupIndia #SustainableEnergy #EVTech #Fundraise

@saurabhchandra Just need a good User Interface to help with adoption in Industry and Universities

@zuron7 NASA has so many great open source tools like NASTRAN, MYSTRAN.

There have been multiple attempts to break through and create indigenous tools: feast.vssc.gov.in - FEA Tool fossee.in Of all the things in Indian manufacturing, this feels like the easiest to solve with capital, the talent is available.

@maahirpanchal @VishakhRanotra Something like Mahindra World City?

What is the Camellias equivalent of Industrial Plots? (cc : @VishakhRanotra)

@DV_Apoorv Have you moved into NGEF Estate?

Over the next few months, we will have our own homegrown story to tell...

This is the perfect picture to describe "vertical integration" vs "development where we buy parts from Vendors"

PPAP/APQP Software can be AI Enabled as well. The most boring part of launching a new product, but got to be done for high quality manufacturing. Since it's mostly text/basic numbers, it should be automated and humans can be verification/checking.

@surbhiskjain fyi, it may be mandatory for you to pay 2x of hourly wages for overtime pay according to state laws. pretty standard for most establishments.

For many months, I was struggling to get staffing right for our club operations team. We have around 10 people across housekeeping, security, and managers. Demand keeps changing - weekends and events are super busy, while weekdays are bit lighter. Hiring for weekends/events felt like too much. Hiring for weekdays felt too risky. No matter what we did, something was always off. And whenever the team had to stretch a bit, there was frustration and cribbing. I didn’t feel comfortable asking for favor as company. After a lot of trial and hustle, we found a simple but powerful solution: overtime pay. The moment we introduced it, things changed. People started volunteering to stay back when needed. They felt fairly paid for their extra time. There was no force, no convincing. It’s still early days (about 2 months in) but haven’t had a single day where we felt understaffed. And I haven’t heard a single complaint from the team. Something even better happened. People started taking leaves more freely, knowing they could balance it out by working overtime on other days. And others do overtime when someone is on leave. The company also saves money because it doesn’t need to add more full-time folks. Everyone wins. Overtime is such a blessing for offline businesses. This might be very obvious for many, but OT as a concept wasn’t so obvious to me, as I have been in tech businesses pre-dominantly and there, we all keep over-working without any OT/incentives (maybe something to be thought about as well?)