Following is an interview where we can get an insight about the initiatives and efforts Rishabh Instruments Pvt Ltd is taking to provide the citizens a better life...

1. Give an overview of your company, products and services you offer?
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Being the leader in manufacturing of Analog Panel Meters in the world, the company's vision is to extend this number one global position to all its product segments. Rishabh is proud to provide its customers with the products broadly categorized as Test & Measuring Instruments and Industrial Control Products.

Under Test & Measuring Instruments we offer Digital Multimeters and Insulation Testers. We are proud to say that we are the only Indian Manufacturer, offering indigenous Digital Multimeters complying with IEC61010-2001 general safety requirements CAT IV.

Under the Industrial Control Products where we offer Analog & Digital Panel Meters, Electrical AC transducers, Electrical DC transducers, Multifunction meters, Protective Trip Relays and Energy Meters. We are the only company in India, offering indigenous fully programmable Multi Transducer. We are now developing current transformers; energy meters both mechanical counts and LCD type in collaboration with leading European brands.

2. Where does your company fit in the test& measurement market?
Ans. In today’s competitive business scenario Rishabh has made its mark as the Company that manufactures and markets instruments of ‘High End Technology’ at affordable price.

3. How much of your overall business comes from the T&M field?
Ans. Test and Measuring Instruments form a strong product category at Rishabh and it contributes to an overwhelming 35% of the total business generated.

4. What are your current trends and technologies?
Ans. Key Technological trends are more intelligent instruments, better accuracies and higher resolution. Trend is to offer instruments with display, data recording and data communication. Trend is gradually shifting from RS485 to MODBUS based communication to faster interfaces like Ethernet, PROFIBUS. There will be slow application mergers of instrumentation and electrical SCADA. One system will start offering both. This shall make the products updated with the current technology in the engineering sector.

5. Where does your company stand in highly competitive market?
Ans. As the world faces the intense competition in every segment, Rishabh is proud to make a mark in the competitive scenario where the customer views the company as a one stop solution to get products with high end technology with the best quality providing utmost safety to the instrument and the user and at affordable prices. It is also viewed as the company that provides the best services to its clients and the track record has proven the same.

6. What are your dominant applications in T & M?
Ans. Test and Measuring Instruments aid the maintenance personnel in maintaining the electrical infrastructure of industries, with fine precision and accuracy. The instruments are designed and developed keeping in mind the safety as a key concern which provides utmost safety to the user as well as the device under test which enables the user to safely operate the instrument in any electrical environment.

Many Laboratories in the electronics industry have grown and developed products in their respective field with the help of the test and measuring instruments where these instruments provide high accuracy and precision to achieve the desired result as per the laboratory specifications.

Test and measuring instruments have given a platform for the educational institutes to provide the in-depth practical knowledge regarding the electronics and electrical fundamentals to the students thus enabling the students to grow as a technical professional.

Automation and commissioning personnel find immense confidence in the TMI and have made these instruments the part of their activities considering the performance of the instruments and the safety they provide to the user. This ensures the technician about the perfection in the commissioning and automation of the desired process or equipment.

Rishabh has proven itself by adding value to the industry and society as a whole.

7. Which are the major industry drivers for this segment?
Ans. Changing perspective of electrical instruments industry is that it is going digital, products are mostly based on intelligent microprocessors, demand automatic to log electrical data and subsequent analysis is going up. Rising cost of energy is putting more demand on instruments. Utilities are automating their distribution system by implementing SCADA. Accuracy and resolutions are also improving. We see trend to continue in future, with SCADA technology merging with energy measurement and management systems. New data interfaces like PROFIBUS will mature. Automation will bring much higher growth. India will see major growth in exports because of cost advantages in delivery of complete systems of SCADA and EMS. Plan in India to trifurcate utilities, with each part to become a profit centre will generate demands on utilities for proper auditing and management of energy. This will be a major growth perspective.

8. What are your latest development activities?
Ans. Rishabh has determined and is devoted towards its expansion in the global market where it plans to open offices at different locations and place its representatives globally. Rishabh is adapting the policy of ‘Think global act local’. With the target of doubling its turnover every third year, Rishabh is growing dramatically in the present scenario.

Rishabh has indulged itself for the design and development of precise and higher accuracy Multimeters which shall be available at affordable prices to the clients.

To cater to the requirements of the automation industry, Rishabh has planned to make the transducer series faster by reducing the response time. This shall make the control action in the automation industry much faster and yield better results, benefiting the end client.

For the clients to get the benefit under single place, Rishabh shall enter into retailing of electrical instruments in the market, first of its kind of industrial marketing.

9.What major challenges are you facing?
Ans: In our TMI business of Multimeters and insulation testers, we see cheap imports of sub-standard products as one major concern area. These are branded in the name of Indian companies and sold in the market, but at much higher safety risk. It is observed that the use of such products have resulted in several hazards when the user uses these sub-standard imported instruments, but still these products are used. This trend will be a de-motivation for the companies to make long term plan for technology innovations.

10. Is there any new product launch in this month?
Ans: Rishabh has planned and is executing to add more products to its existing product basket. We plan to develop and launch a new high end digital multi-meter which shall provide greater accuracy, resolution and precision. This product shall be available to the clients at affordable prices as compared to the counterparts worldwide.

Rishabh has designed and developed an innovative series off current transformers (CT) which offer better accuracy than what is available in the market today. The CTs shall be launched in the market soon.

Rishabh also shall launch the ‘Shunts’ in the market which to meet the Indian as well as international requirements of ‘Quality with affordability’.

Catering to the requirements of the clients, Rishabh has developed a new variant in its ‘Digital Panel Meter’ series which has a display digit height of 20mm as compared to 14mm in its earlier version. The 20mm DPM shall be launched soon in the market to fulfill the requirements of our esteemed clients.


Mr.Anant Krishna Waghchoure
email:anantkw@gmail.com, anant@rishabh-instruments.com
Mob:9970093625