Continuing from the earlier question, tell us about your R&D activities?
"Innovate to Perish" is the mantra we truly believe in. We have developed a well versed and a versatile R&D centre (spread across 3,123 sq m) to keep us up with the international trends towards the automation and manufacturing excellence. This R&D centre is dedicated to an ancient design genius Leonardo Da' Vinci who designed the first lathe machine in early of 16th Century. The exclusive R&D centre is been established to design and develop technologically advanced world class machines for the better quality, reliability and productivity to cater to sophisticated aerospace, automobile and defence applications where high level of accuracies and reliabilities are inevitable.

R&D activities here are conducted through a young team of 87 technocrat professionals facilitated by latest softwares, and assembly/testing and calibration equipments from world renowned manufacturers.

If I am not wrong, this is the Silver Jubilee year for Jyoti. What do you think have been the three major highlights of this journey?
Jyoti was established in 1989. The journey so far has achieved many important milestones. The three major ones are; Establishment of all the major backward integrations like foundry, sheetmetal, paintshop, sub-assemblies is one of the major milestones of our journey, which made us the only machine tool manufacturer in India producing all the major components under single roof.

Secondly, development of state of art exclusive Research and Development Centre has added a feather on our cap. And last but not the least acquisition of a French Machine Tool giant, Huron Graffenstaden SAS in 2007; with the acquisition of Huron today we are in a position to offer the entire range of turning and milling solutions to customers who are currently importing a significant part of their high-end machine requirements.