Bilingual Monthly Magazine Focusing On Boiler & Steam Systems

Happy new Year to all of you! May this festive new year bring to you loads and wealth of true bliss and happiness including personal and professional success.

It has really been a festive season. Your shares rose to a seasonal maximum, with so many companies registering better Q2 profits, surge in advance tax collection, bonus and dividends declares, fair assembly elections in a few states just before diwali, and an overall satisfying financial situation for all. The world economy is also gradually set to come out of the financial meltdown, India featured in Nobel prizes again - collectively it seems we have a good year coming ahead.

It is event time here too, at Saket, with conferences lined up one after the other. I hope you have started registering for the Steamtech 2009. We are making great efforts for ensuring the success of the conference. There has always been great participation and response from your side and we are looking forward to a similar enthusiasm for this conference. Very good experts have been invited to deliberate on important topics and it would be a very fruitful event.

Steam & Boiler Review will also complete 2 full years of publishing in December. The response to the magazine has been encouraging, but we intend to still make it better with every issue. I once again request you, on behalf of the editorial team, to send in your views, opinions and suggestions about the contents and your expectations from the magazine.

This issue is focused on Boiler Automation Systems. Awareness on automation is increasing in Indian industries now. However, it is still limited to large industries. Gradually, small industries also need to think about automatic systems. The cost may seem to be a factor, but if one considers the cost-benefit analysis, you will find that automatic systems prove to be beneficial and save a lot of money, manpower and hard work. Whatever traditional control and monitoring systems we use today, of whatever scale, the future will be automatic. We need to adopt the latest practices as early as possible to earn benefits in future.

Friends, we consider Diwali as the Indian New Year. Clean up and try to get rid of all garbage in our house, at our workplaces, etc., get it repainted to gain a new look. On the auspicious start of this new year, let us make a resolution to clean up our old mindset which resists positive change, which hesitates to spend on technology, which thinks short term and not long term, and which focuses on transactions instead of business. Let us resolve that we will clean and throw all this mental garbage that we may have accumulated in our mind and think about our industry in totality, about our people as a society or community and mankind. Only then, shall we grow together. Only then, shall the divide between the poor and reach lessen and we will really see a developed nation.

This issue is focused on Boiler Automation Systems. Awareness on automation is increasing in Indian industries now. However, it is still limited to large industries. Gradually, small industries also need to think about automatic systems. The cost may seem to be a factor, but if one considers the cost-benefit analysis, you will find that automatic systems prove to be beneficial and save a lot of money, manpower and hard work. Whatever traditional control and monitoring systems we use today, of whatever scale, the future will be automatic. We need to adopt the latest practices as early as possible to earn benefits in future.

All the best...