
Bala is a digital transformation leader with 10+ yrs experience specialising in turning productivity into profitability through digitalisation.
He is an industry 4.0 strategy and execution advisor and has a broad range of experience managing large scale transformation programmes advising clients across various industry sectors in operational technology, industrial automation, PLM, MES, IoT and industry cloud solutions.
A Chartered Engineer with Doctorate in Intelligent Automation and hands-on experience spanning across the E2E value chain from design to aftermarket, he is an expert in factory digitalisation integrating Operational Technology (OT) and Information Technology (IT) through ISA95 architecture. He has led successful transformation programmes in both greenfield and brownfield sites in discrete, batch and continuous production environments.
As a digital transformation director, he advises clients on business led technology strategy, roadmapping, insertion, adoption and change to transform an organisation at scale moving them from early adopters to digital champions. He is a skilled solution and project architect with extensive experience in articulating the need for change, designing the digital blueprint and orchestrating the change in factory.
His ability to create value through digitalisation with clear articulation of return on investment (RoI) has helped organisations achieve tangible benefits with sustainable growth. He acts as a digital enabler helping c-suite to shopfloor personnel through every step of the change improving processes with seamless transition to digital operations. His cheerful nature, can-do attitude and ability to put pen to paper has helped organisations operationalise transformation across the value chain.
EXPERTISE
- Digital Transformation
- MES/ Digital Manufacturing
- PLM/ Digital Engineering
- Industry 4.0/ IT-OT integration
- Operations Technology
- IIOT/ Smart Factory
- Manufacturing Cloud and AI
- Lean manufacturing
- Process optimisation
- Value Stream Integration
- Digital Upskilling
- Industrial Robotics & Automation
Sector Experience
- Aerospace
- Defence
- Industrial Manufacturing
- High-Value Manufacturing
- Electronics Manufacturing
- F1
- Automotive
- Renewables
- Engineering
- CPG/ FMCG
- Construction/ Building Materials
- Research and Prototyping