POWER PLANT SAVES CRORES, THANKS TO THIS START-UP’S ROBOT
Make in India drive just got a shot in the arm after a city- based startup helped a power plant in Mundra save crores of rupees. Power generation at the plant came to halt after a hammer fell into a high-pressure steam pipe, and the start-up was called to pull out the hammer using one of its robots. The operation cost the plant around Rs 16 lakh. The expenditure would have spiked to the tune of Rs 5crore, had the engineers at the plant decided to retrieve the hammer themselves. Pulkit Gaur and Govind Godedara from Gridbots Technologies in Ahmedabad were called into action at the TATA Power Plant in Mudra during the last weekend.Power generation was halted after a 2 kg metal hammer fell into the high-pressure steam pipe during the scheduled .....