AvioHeliTronics InfoSystems Pvt. Ltd. is a Bangalore based Aerospace Engineering MSME with D-IL, CMMI-Dev/Svc-3, AS9100D, ISO27001:2015 accreditations; and approvals of CEMILAC and DSIR as R&D Centre. Incepted in 2007, AIS started with a focus on Embedded Avionics Software testing and slowly but steadily organically grew into other niche areas like Mechanical Design & Stress Analysis for Reverse Engineering, Ada legacy Software Systems, ATE Assembly; and since 4yrs – multi-axis CNC Machining & Assembly of Aerospace & Space Components. AIS is today, an Engineering supplier for several overseas Civil and Defence Aerospace OEM’s as well as ISRO, MoD, HAL and DRDO in India. Relocating from Whitefield to the Aerospace SEZ at Devanahalli Airport by end-2019 – to consolidate under one roof and expand into a larger facility required to cater expansion of Mechanical Design, Analysis, Machining & Assembly as well as Engineering Services businesses in the pipeline. The unique capabilities at Mechanical Design, Analysis and Manufacturing, all under the same roof, give AIS an edge at Reverse Engineering – to aid the Indian Forces circumvent Obsolescence as well as sourcing problems faced due to geo-political issues. The company’s COO & Sr.VP Deepika Ramesh, spearheads the expansion, process & quality improvement initiatives, in order to manage the operational issues of rapid expansion in teams & infrastructure. The Company is now on SAP-ERP to streamline Operations for higher efficiency and ensure tracking of Schedule, Quality & Cost.

The CEO & Founder Sameer Sonpavde, apart from exploring newer businesses, is actively engaging with the GOI, to articulate the imperative need for better Higher Technical Education to address and achieve the true essence of Make in India. He believes that lack of innovations and skills training to Engineers at our Universities is the root-cause for lack of IP generation in Aerospace Engineering – both in the DPSU’s as well as Private Sectors. While our children do so well abroad – the training and ecosystem to spark the dormant DNA of innovation, is being neither addressed nor seen as the root-cause, for lack of design innovation in Public and/or Private Sectors. He believes a better offset policy would be a mix of ongoing businesses combined with (1) Skill Development Diplomas by OEM’s to upskill Technicians & Engineers in MRO & Design (2) bring best Universities like Stanford-USA, SupaAero-France and Technion/TelAviv-Israel. This could be a more meaningful Make in India strategy, than the repetitive low-end works alone, that are being outsourced to India under Offsets – which aren’t creating competence for innovation!

COO & Sr.VP Deepika Ramesh