Inside NBC Bearings’ playbook for Smart Manufacturing

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Manufacturing has entered an era where the factory floor is as much a data environment as it is a production environment. Few industries illustrate this shift more clearly than precision bearing manufacturing, where microscopic tolerances, high-volume output, and rigorous quality demands leave little room for error — and enormous room for data-driven optimization.

At NBC Bearings, one of India’s leading bearing manufacturers, that shift is being driven from the top of the technology organization. Dr. Lokesh Agrawal, CTO of NBC Bearings, is leading an effort to fuse decades of mechanical engineering expertise with AI, digital twins, IoT-enabled sensing, and advanced analytics — not as a bolt-on IT initiative, but as a redefinition of how the company designs, builds, and monitors its products.

“At NBC Bearings, we view digital transformation not as an IT-led exercise, but as a business and engineering transformation,” Dr. Agrawal says. “Our objective is to use...

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