India Must Prioritise Industrial Electronics for Manufacturing Goal

The industry association, ICEA, stated on Monday that for the electronics manufacturing target of $500 billion by 2030-31, India needs to focus on industrial and infrastructure electronics. According to a statement from the industry organization, this demonstrates that India's electronics industry has a bright future in producing goods that will automate our cities, factories, and transportation systems. Accordingly, ICEA said industrial electronics must be front and centre of India's electronics growth strategy.

CEA, in the release, called for "the urgent need to prioritise industrial and infrastructure electronics as a central pillar of India's $500 billion electronics manufacturing target by 2030-31". Pankaj Mohindroo, Chairman of ICEA, stressed that the industrial electronics segment must be recognised as a national strategic priority. "It is the brain and nervous system of every advanced manufacturing setup. Without leadership in industrial automation, India cannot claim true manufacturing leadership," he said.

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Mohindroo said the industrial electronics sector has the capacity to build high-skilled jobs in embedded systems, automation software, robotics and AI-enabled systems. India needs to build talent pipelines as well as R&D and incentives to facilitate the sector's growth, ICEA said, adding that companies are not only looking to India to be a user of industrial electronics, but also to design and manufacture it on a global scale.

Also, Manish Walia, vice president at Delta Electronics, said the industrial electronics sector is the technology backbone of modern manufacturing infrastructure and smart factories, robotics, intelligent grids, automated systems, and future-ready transport and logistics networks.