Our nation is observed to witness a paradigm shift towards smart factories designed to boost productivity, improve quality, and optimize costs to help companies stay competitive. Herein, the industry players have significant ways to help their customers to secure the operational integrity of their plants, enhance the operational insights of its people, and enable them to adapt easily and affordably to the change.
These factors are fundamental to achieving a business’s goals of maximizing production efficiencies at the lowest cost safely and sustainably. Today’s operations demand stability, security, and performance. Alongside, reducing operational risk from unplanned downtime to preventing cyber-attacks, ensuring the safety of personnel, and the environment is also the key. And this is where Automation Solutions come into play.
Automation Solutions do help but still, people are the most critical factor here ensuring that the right information gets to the right people at the right time. Buzz words such as Big Data and the Internet of Things have grown to a larger extent and have impacted communications in our daily lives. More information can help operations meet their goals, but only if used properly. And in the future, automated systems will leverage the power of software to provide the right level of insight into the right operational function, enabling them to take actions that contribute to the business’ goals.
Harnessing such information and utilizing it intelligently comes Rexel India Pvt. Ltd., a worldwide expert in the professional multichannel distribution of products and services for the energy world. The firm designs innovative and sustainable solutions for the world of energy and offers industrial and commercial markets, its wellbeing, security, energy efficiency solutions, and services.
Rexel entered India in 2011 by acquiring two distributors of Rockwell Automation in Western India and since then it has increased its footprint PAN India and through its 17 Branches and close proximity to customers. Today, it supports customers to be at their best in running their business by providing a broad range of innovative products and services in the field of industrial automation, energy management, supply chain consolidation, and electrical supplies.
About the Rexel Group
Rexel, a global leader in the professional distribution of energy products and services worldwide, has three main markets-industrial, commercial, and residential. The Group supports clients around the world, wherever they may be, to create value and help run their businesses. With a network of about 2,000 branches in 26 countries and 27,000 employees, Rexel’s sales in 2018 have amounted to € 13.4 Billion.
A Leader Inspiring Generations
Vikas Garg, the Managing Director of Rexel India believes that communication, integrity, empathy, and sensitivity to the needs of the employees, all together round out the qualities and characteristics of an inspirational leader.
Mr. Garg has an overall experience of 25+ years in the field of industrial automation. He joined as the CEO of one of the Rexel India subsidiaries and is now the Managing Director of Rexel India. Since then, under his thoughtful and innovative leadership, Rexel India has emerged as a prominent leader as a Full Time Automation Distributor for its Industrial customers.
Sharing his and the firm’s aim, he asserts, “Rexel India’s mission is to bring global expertise and aim to be the Best Technical Automation Distributor for Customers, Partners & employees. We provide our services to industrial end-users across all segments and the solution partners that support them, machine builders, system integrators, panel builders. We modestly contribute to ‘Make in India’ by helping manufacturers with our exclusive products & services distribution process.”
More Than Just a Business
For Rexel, having a customer means being a partner that helps them to save time and improve performance, no matter where they are. Its Automation Solutions enhance productivity and reduce energy consumption with a total cost of ownership, by offering cutting edge technologies, innovative, and optimized solutions. The company strives to offer the best product range, pre, and post-sales technical support, sales expertise and advice, and reliable delivery process.
Rexel India helps its industrial customers with reliable and latest technology automation products at optimized cost and value-added services to meet plant requirements. This is achieved through:
- A broad range of specialized products designed and selected to meet all quality, safety and standards compliance needs
- Comprehensive solutions designed to boost performance, safety and energy efficiency.
- Rationalized procurement, optimized logistics and closely controlled ownership costs (TCO)
- Energy efficiency solutions that reduce your costs and boost your environmental performance to ensure compliance with all applicable regulations
Being a partner and withstanding challenges of the industry, the firm has remained true to its vision and mission of providing a broad range of innovative products and services in the field of industrial automation, energy management, supply chain consolidation, and electrical supplies.
Further, the company practices value creation for employees, suppliers, and customers. The firm strictly maintains ethics and has forged a conducive working environment for employees where they have the freedom to contribute and grow, proximity-product availability and highly competent service culture to its customers.
Rexel India has grown multi-fold in the last five years. All of this has been possible because of its nature of diversifying the business with the addition of new products, innovative offerings, and geo expansion within the country. Consequently, it has come closer to its esteemed customers in offering reliable products, technical support, and services in the shortest time.
An Advice to Remember
Guiding budding entrepreneurs, Mr. Garg asserts, “Being an entrepreneur is never easy, if you trust your dream, take every failure as a stepping stone and never quit.”
Automation for Tomorrow
Conversing the future plans of Rexel India, Mr. Garg adds, Rexel India is the largest Technical Automation distributor in the country and is well poised to adapt digital transformations and provide IT-OT solutions to its customers. He further says that Data is new OIL and Automation will play a very important role in integrating this data into meaningful information to the manufacturing industry. Rexel India looks forward to harnessing it even more.
Visit www.rexel.co.in to know more.
