Automation is unlocking high-technology business potential in India.

 India’s industrial output was up 13.6 percent in April over the same month last year, thanks to a robust 15.1 percent growth in the index of industrial production (IIP) of the Central Statistical Organization (CSO). “The revised annual growth for the period April-March 2006-07 now stands at 11.5 percent over the corresponding period of the previous year,” the organization said in a statement.

 “We face real dangers from sophisticated, nimble and organized adversaries who will stop at nothing to achieve their objectives. The truth is that our networks and control systems are vulnerable, and they’re exposed, and we have to change that,” declared Bruce Landis, deputy assistant secretary for Cyber Security and Telecommunications for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS, www.dhs.gov). “We know that control systems run some of our nation’s most critical assets,” Landis added. “I can tell you the risks are substantial, and this directly affects each and every one of the more than 300 million Americans.”

  Small, inexpensive computer chips, known as radio frequency identification (RFID) tags, attach to individual parts, subassemblies and completed assemblies. Those tags activate sensors located throughout a manufacturing facility.

 Today’s time-constrained manufacturers are chasing a bigger bang for their training dollar, whether through vendor-provided training or internal training programs.