Industrial Automation Magazine India

The year 2023 was a fantastic year for Schmersal India in which the company celebrated milestones in its journey towards making India a ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’.

February 2024 – ‘Safety in system: Protection for man and machine!’ Under this motto, Schmersal India offers its customers the largest range of safety switching appliances and systems worldwide for the protection of human life and machines.

The comprehensive range of more than 16,000 products includes safety switches, solenoid interlocks, emergency stop switches, security sensors, safety mats with safety function, photoelectric light barriers and end switches, which include limit switches, position switches and micro switches.

Based on this program Schmersal configured, within the scope of the "Safety Services" from tec.nicum a tailor-made systems and industry solutions for machine safety.

Schmersal safety services include application consulting, CE conformity assessment, risk assessment in accordance with the Machinery Directive, stop time measurements, training courses, guarding solutions, safety fences, and similar other services. They are highly competent in areas like machine safety, automation, explosion protection, and hygienic design.

As part of its global strategy, Schmersal India established a new competence center for IT, software and engineering services in India (Schmersal Global

Competence Centre) in 2022.

This latest facility of the Schmersal Group was established in the central part of Pune (Nucleus Mall, Camp) in 2018 and flourished from 2 to 43 team members. Custom Application Development, Microsoft Technologies, and SAP are overseen under IT services, whereas Embedded Development and IoT are our fundamental area of focus. Working as a separate entity from manufacturing site Schmersal India Pvt Ltd (Ranjangaon), Schmersal Global Competence Centre executes all the functions and responsibilities of the ITCC (IT Competence centre) and Engineering Center.

Schmersal is accessible to businesses in all corners of the globe. We have also started a webshop to purchase safety products online which will be sent directly to customers for convenience.

The year 2023 was a fantastic year for Schmersal India in which we celebrated milestones in our journey towards making India a ‘Atmanirbhar Bharat’ by celebrating 10 years of our manufacturing facility, despite many challenges we achieved 1 million safety switches production and marked 100 crores in our domestic sales.

Our software company Schmersal Global Competence Centre has also achieved a vital milestone which is digital LOTO implementation and Industry Internet of Things (IIoT) integration for a major white goods giant in India.

With this both the companies in India – SIPL and SGCC – became the companies to qualify for “Great Place to Work” in the very first year.