Kirloskar Electric Company Limited, Bangalore

It all began when our visionary founder Laxman Rao Kirloskar created the first Iron plough for the Indian farmer.His involvement with agriculture led him to make the first pump then the prime movers for the pumps. Since then KEC corporate goal has been to look into the future and engineer products that time would eventually demand.

In order to do this, Ravi L Kirloskar, second – generation entrepreneur, son of the visionary, built a bank of prime technological skills and capabilities. And a state of art facility that has since then continuously reinvented itself to meet the changing demands of a changing market – just that one step ahead of time.

Today as a lean, innovative and aggressive power in value engineering, Kirloskar Electric is well into its tryst with world market with an offering that has strong roots in a traditional value base and comes with the inherent brand qualities of trustworthiness and complete customer satisfaction.

Moving smoothly from agricultural sector to industry, to transport, to defense, to power generation, Kirloskar Electric products have had more than a significant contribution to make to India 's rapidly evolving economy. With long years of innovative application behind it, Kirloskar Electric finds itself completely capable of delivering a range of custom engineered products that meet and exceed global standards at very competitive prices.

The ready acceptance of our products in USA, Europe, Canada, Hong Kong, Australia, China, Singapore, South Africa, Malaysia, Pakistan, Bangladesh, along with the hard to earn certification by world's leading companies, are the direct result of an on going process. Of streamlining, redefining and recreating of processes, design and test parameters to Six Sigma and other stringent quality measures. Along with innovation as a way of life and willingness to take up any challenging customization project and making it a success. So much so that we are in the process of changing out market definition from 90:100 to 40:60 domestic to export ratio. Contract manufacturing, turnkey projects, customized products and testing facilities form our current export profile.

Today as a lean, innovative and aggressive power in value engineering, Kirloskar Electric is well into its tryst with world market with an offering that has strong roots in a traditional value base and comes with the inherent brand qualities of trustworthiness and complete customer satisfaction.

Laxmanrao K. Kirloskar ,
Founder, Kirloskar Group of Companies

Shri Laxmanrao Kashinath Kirloskar was a successful industrialist, but his chief merit lay in the trail he blazed, for the principle in life he depended upon were his vision and a spirit of pioneering.

Ravindra L. Kirloskar ,
Founder, Kirloskar Group of Companies

Shri Ravindra L. Kirloskar was the youngest son of Laxmanrao and Radhabhai Kirloskar, who later headed KEC operations. Having a degree in Electrical Engineering from the Worcester Polytechnic Institute, U.S.A. he began his professional career in Kirloskar Brothers. In 1942 he designed and built India's first Electric motor at Kirloskarwadi with his colleague N.K.Joshi. He guided us to the highest level of quality.

"Quality must go beyond standard tests and procedures. It must be equated with self respect and personal pride."

India's first satellite tracked

Proud scientists celebrated the successful tracking of India 's first satellite. The meticulously planned event was held in Hassan, Karnataka. The team had finalized the specifications for AC generators with Kirloskar Electric Co., taking care of intricate details like transient loading and transient voltage regulation performance.

Missile test fired

The first ever indigenously built missile was test fired in early 90's, year before; premiere defense organizations perfected the intricate performance requirement of the power supply unit. KEC played a key role in building the entire power supply unit. The AC Generators of KEC were customized for arduous duty.

India explores Antartica

India was the first developing country to join the Antartica explorations. The task team behind this feat had done the homework right. They carried with them specially designed AC Generators, developed by KEC that worked perfectly in sub zero temperatures.

Rajdhani flagged off

The research wing of India Railways worked with specialists from KEC to design highly reliable AC Generators that would take that heat, dust, smoke and the acceleration of the bogie and continue to function giving passengers of the Rajdhani greater speed, greater comfort and increased safety.

Stealth ship launched

On 18th April 2003 , national dailies splashed the launch of the first indigenously designed stealth ship. The ship has four KEC 1000kW AC Generators which are the result of our close association with Indian Navy, in the supply of AC Generators, for frontline battle ship.

Survival in Leh

In the lab the Defense experts drenched it with salt spray, blasted it with sand, vibrated it, heated it in an oven, and rocked it over the bumps. In the field they hauled it from deserts of Rajasthan to marshy areas in Assam and yet the KEC AC Generator worked for decades. They wanted to verify whether the AC Generators bleeds as human do when they land up in Leh, the highest place inhabited on earth and they did id with success. That is why KEC remains the most preferred make by the Defense establishments.

The power of now is the energy of opportunities that come to us disguised as challenges. The power of now at Kirloskar Electric is the dynamics of making opportunities work as by meeting client's tough specifications of cost and quality. At Kirloskar Electric, we bank on the power of now.

"Quality must go beyond standard tests and procedures. It must be equated with self respect and personal pride."

Quality On The Move......

KEC is committed to achieve customer's delight by effective deployment of its Business Process. Quality performance demonstrated is the result of optimization of design, effective process control in manufacturing together with testing and approval process in the environment of Quality management system. Further more, our trained and competent team strining towards continous improvement paves our steps towards sustaining the interest of our valued customers.

Product Quality

Other than traditional quality function the focus is on Quality assurance by preventive actions on critical quality issues. Testing laboratories are accredited under the national voluntary laboratory program (NVLAP) for energy efficient motors. As a result of its thrust on quality and technology KEC is credited with national & international recognition in the form of product certification.

Process Quality

KEC has made considerable improvements in Process Quality to achieve product as perceived by the customer. The process Quality in the field of manufacturing & supplying process by integrating the Quality improvement methodology six sigma approach. Also people Quality is enhanced by constant training & development for processing through these methodologies. In addition to this, the company has also introduced stringent control measures with suppliers to ensure the customer perception towards KEC products. All these measures have resulted in manifold improvements in the CTQ’S with substantial reduction in non conforming products.