Science & Electronic Engineering graduate
with an MBA in Marketing has nearly 45 years experience in the field of
Inspection, Quality Control, Technical documentation, Standardization,
Defect Analysis and Sales and Marketing.
For 13 years in Defense Organization (Army, Navy and Air Force) as
Scientific Officer was responsible for inspection and testing of Radars
and Communication equipment at BEL. Indigenized many electronic
components during emergency period to save Foreign Exchange. Introduced
inspection standards.
For 4 years as Sales Manager at Siltronics, the first Indian Company to
manufacture CZ and FZ Silicon wafer and was responsible to deliver
wafers to semiconductor and solar cell production. Converted 100 Kg poly
inventory held by BEL into wafers in 1985.
Founded Four-C-Tron in 1989 to provide Sales & Service support.
Established 11 Turnkey Solar Module Production Lines from Spire solar
USA at Emvee solar, Vikram Solar, Alpex solar and others. Supplied
diffusion furnaces, wet benches for Solar cell production line. In 1992
based on Four-C-Tron advise M/S Krempel Germany manufactured Backsheet
and the first customer was from India.
Extensively travelled overseas since 1987 to USA, Europe region, UK,
Russia, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan to visit wafer manufacturers,
wafer Fabs & packaging industries, solar cell & module manufactures and
to attend Electronica, Productronica, Semicon, Intersolar, Medical, Healthcare & Cleanroom
exhibitions- more than 40 times. Visited Korea 3 times on sponsorship
from KOTRA to develop business for MEMS and Opto-Electronics.
Contributed following articles on Cleanroom, *Solar policy,
Solar journery with EQ, *Standardization on BOMs for Module Production in Solar magazines
and was honored as “Human of Solar”.
In the beginning - it was mono round, mono square, pseudo square then multi square with dimension from 100/101mm, 125/126mm, and 156 mm/156.75mm
This article is based on the facts and figures since birth of solar industry in the country in 1980’s and its crippled growth in the last 40 years.
It is an interesting topic to write about how I got involved in Solar since last 34 years. Behind the Sun: Started my career in Defence Establishment in 1967