Treat AI agents like junior colleagues: Rajkumar Ayyella, CIO, RPG Group (KEC International Limited)
Future Factory is a Express Computer series that spotlights the technology leaders reshaping Indian manufacturing — how they are modernising shop floors, rethinking IT-OT boundaries, and preparing their organisations for an AI-driven industrial future. In this conversation, we speak with Rajkumar Ayyella, CIO, RPG Group (KEC International Limited).
Indian manufacturing is at an inflection point. Decades-old plants, some over 70 years old, are being asked to absorb AI, digital twins, and agentic automation without missing a beat on the shop floor. For CIOs, the pressure isn’t just to adopt new technology — it’s to do so without disrupting operations that customers, workers and boards depend on every single day.
Few people are better placed to speak on this shift than Rajkumar Ayyella. Over a 27-year career, he has built IT and digital functions across some of the most demanding industrial environments in the world — from Nike’s global supply chain...
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