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Information Technology Centre |
| Complete business applications starting from customer enquiry, order processing till after sales service are computerised on the latest state-of-the-art technology Power PC RS/6000 machine supplied by IBM, whose back bone is the world renowned RDBMS ORACLE 7.3.3 and D2K as front end. |
Manufacturing Facilities | ||
 The facilities for manufacture and
testing of valves - Control valves, Butterfly valves, Rotary Plug valves,
Safety Relief Valves, Pressure Reducing valves, Bellows sealed valves,
Electrical actuators etc. - established at Palakkad plant are one of the best in
this part of the world. ILP is the only company in India to have all in-house
facility to manufacture globe type control valves ranging from ¼" to
30" size and rating up to ANSI 2750 special class and Butterfly valves up
to size 2400 NB A team of Engineers and Technicians trained for the past
so many years are available to bring out the best quality product. The plant is
also equipped with sophisticated CNC lathes, CNC drilling, machining centre and
vertical turret lathe with a swing of 4.3 Meter, roller burnishing machine,
vertical turret lathes and productivity is of a very high order ensuring quality
and reliability. A Clean room facility is created for manufacturing of Bellows
sealed Valves. We have with us special NC machines which not only ensure very
high degree of accuracy but also repeatability and higher productivity. | ||
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It is a fact that many leading valve manufacturers in the world have started buying castings from India. Instrumentation Ltd. Palghat can claim for having developed many of the sources for  supply of castings for control
valve requirements. It enjoys a much better rapport with the suppliers to bring
out the best quality aspects to the castings. More so, because the proximity to
the supplier is well enjoyed by way of frequent interaction with the foundries
right from the stage of pattern making through mould making and pouring and
hence, ILP is fully aware of the actual quality levels of the castings procured
by them which may not be the case of the people who do not have the facility to
keep a close watch of such critical castings. |
R&D Centre |
R&D centre is headed by a YH trained
manager with 20 years of experience backed by a strong technical team of 45
members.
 R&D is equipped with the
state-of-the-art CAD/CAM facilities. This centres' work stations are supplied
by Hewlett Packard loaded on which are the SDRC Ideas Software for Design and
FEM analysis. A photo of the valve undergoing FEM analysis is seen in the
picture. This workstation is connected to PCs with Autocad Rel 14 on Windows
NT network. This workstation is directly connected to a CNC machine supplied by
HEYLIGENSTAEDT, Germany, for computer aided manufacturing.Bellows sealed valves developed through inhouse R&D was awarded the Import Substitution Award by the Government of India for 1990-91. |
Testing |
| The Quality Assurance and Inspection Standards adopted by us conform to the latest international standards and all the products moving out of Palakkad plant bear a stamp of high degree of quality and reliability. Excellent test facilities are available where hydrostatic testing of large size valves can be conducted with ease. Many of these test facilities include presses, providers apart from variety of fixtures, test flanges designed and manufactured over the years. Some of the special tests conducted by us/facilities include dynamic response testing, helium leak testing, radiographic inspection, ultrasonic and magnetic particle testing, CV test etc. |
FCRI |
| Adjacent to ILP, Fluid Control Research Institute
(FCRI) has been set up with United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
funding to provide measurement standards in Fluid Flow and related areas for the
efficient operation of National and International trade. Flow measurement in
all industries is a key constituent of quality, safety and efficiency and plays
a critical role in custody transfer and fiscal metering of fluids. There comes
the importance of authentic flow reference system. This R&D Institute was
set up by ILP and facilities are available to ILP for carrying out independent
testing and calibration. This is one of the unique Institutions in the whole of
South East Asia. Services rendered by FCRI include Calibration of flowmeters, Testing of control valves and other flow elements, Calibration/Testing of instruments with traceability to national standards for ISO 9000 certification, Assessment of flow measuring methods, Training programmes for technical personnel, Research and development/prototype development/consultancy, Software for flow meter/valve selection and design. |
Training |
| We provide both theoretical and practical training on sizing, selection and application engineering of control valves and field claim and abatement techniques etc. in our full fledged training department. The practical classes are provided in such a manner that one can work with own hands and learn the techniques of control valve maintenance etc. |
