Wipro Infra sets up industrial automation unit in India

BENGALURU: Wipro Infrastructure Engineering (WIN), a part of Wipro, has set up an industrial automation unit to gain a large pie of the near $400 million manufacturing automation market for IT service players in India.

The overall Indian industrial automation market is $2 billion and out of that opportunity for system integrators such as Wipro, TCS, Infosys, HCL Technologies is approximately worth $ 400 million, which is seeing 17-18% growth.

The IT services major’s infrastructure engineering unit, which is banking on automation of discrete manufacturing activities across industries such as automotive, construction equipment, will focus on India and ASEAN countries as its two key markets.


Wipro Infrastructure Engineering said it has started discussion with prospective customers and would scout for both completely new industrial automation projects and contracts for automating activities of traditional manufacturing firms.

“We have evaluated the solutions and we will have our first set of customers in next few weeks,” said Pratik Kumar, CEO at WIN, adding that the company’s “objective is to see WIN Automation among the top three system integrators in the discrete manufacturing automation business in the geographies it will operate in.”