India Pistons Limited

IPL offers Pistons made out of a variety of high-quality cast iron and steel materials. The extensive spectrum of materials ranges from grey cast iron; (heat treated) alloyed grey cast iron to spheroidal graphite cast iron. IP Rings, a sister concern of IPL specializes in the manufacture of steel rings including high alloyed steel having 17% carbon content. IPL offers Piston Rings with wide range of surface treatments or coatings like Granoliting, Chrome plating, Chrome Moly, Molybdenum, Moly Chrome Ceramic, flame sprayed coatings.

• Pistons with bore diameters ranging from 35 to 160 mm
• Compression Rings in Keystone, Taper Faced or Rectangular design
• Chrome plated conformable oil rings, profile ground for close control of land widths for better oil control
• Stainless steel coil springs center less ground and chrome plated for high wear resistance
• Coil spring loaded 2-piece or expander spring backed 3-piece designs

Vroom, our in-house developed loyalty program, is the result of over 5 years of extensive research and continued development of our aftermarket rewards program. The product has significantly contributed to the exponential growth of our aftermarket business and endeared us to our customers.

Vroom's key component of its success is its simplicity. All user transactions, queries and redemptions are handled via SMS. While an online interface is also available, the ease of use of an SMS based interface for the end users makes it accessible to everyone, at any time.

• SMS & Online Interface simplifies usage for end users
• Complete product type customizability makes it suitable for any product - not just auto components
• Customizable promotions, earning rules and multipliers
• Application intelligence dashboards and many customizable report options
• Debit card for cash redemptions
• Gifts and own product redemptions

The IPL Store is an integrated product catalog and online ordering system that has evolved from a need to better service our customers. Traditionally, companies handle orders through multiple channels including telephone help desks, walk in orders and email orders, all of which result in workflows that make it difficult to service and track customer orders.

IPL Store offers an integrated solution to catalog, view, order, track, manage and service a complete suite of products in an easy to use web based GUI that is optimized for web, mobile and tablet delivery.

• Complete product catalog management that is customizable for different product types
• Integrated shopping cart functionality linked to e-ordering application
• Advanced search and filtering options that allow users to quickly narrow down searches
• Ordering application with order history and tracking for customers
• Complaints and claims module for integrated CRM features
• New Product Information and Circulars distribution via application
• Linked to Vroom Loyalty Program for product purchase against points redemption
• Hosted application (SaaS Model) at a minimal entry cost
• SMS alerts and notifications for ordering module
• Custom ERP integration to pass on order information directly to legacy systems as well as extract pricing information
• Application intelligence dashboards and reports

IPL Connect is a suite of web applications that is a self-service portal for all employees within the organization. Applications include employee self service tasks such as leave and on duty applications, late arrival regularizations, electronic pay slip delivery, companywide address and phone books, birthday calendars, as well as more complex workflow based applications such as help desk ticketing, travel requisitions and reimbursements, capex approvals, performance appraisal management, visitor management systems, project tracking and communication and document management systems.

• Growing application suite with new workflows added every month
• Employee self service applications
• Simple workflow based applications
• Complex workflow based applications
• Comprehensive notification API includes in-app, email and mobile notifications
• Application intelligence dashboards and reports

At IPL, we recognize that the world is changing the way it accesses information. With a proliferation of smart phones, mobile platforms are fast becoming the first place users turn to for information. Recognizing the need for information to be available to users whenever they want, wherever they want, IPL has extended several of its applications on mobile and tablet platforms. For non-smartphone users, we implement SMS based alerts, notifications, queries and even transactions on several of our applications.

Our web based applications are already mobile ready with mobile specific style sheets where required and HTML5 where interactivity is required.

Where a higher level of security and control is required, we develop native applications on multiple platforms including iOS, Android and Windows Mobile both for custom deployment as well as for sale on the apps markets.

• Multi platform development for Android, iOS and Windows Mobile
• Web Applications developed for mobile web access on phones and tablets
• SMS Based applications for non-smartphone mobiles
• Data driven applications to extend existing in-house applications
• Native app development for custom deployment and apps marketplace
• 3D Native Application and Game Development

Liners in the range of 60mm to 300 mm including wet or dry types; rough cast o/d liners for lightweight aluminum engines, machined press fit or slip fit liners. Some of the designs are as follows:

• Pre-finished wet liners
• Pre-finished dry liners
• Semi-finished dry liners
• Pre-finished Hardened and Tempered liners
• Pre-finished Chrome plated liners

IPL been recongnised, a Worlwide leader in supplying high quality Ring Carriers.

• Decades of experience in the production of centrifugal castings
• Every piece is subject to visual inspection at the machine
• Manufactures Ring Carriers (Alfin Inserts) for both captive consumption and export markets
• Packed in vacuum packs to guard against rust and contamination

IPL offers specialized web application development services both as bespoke development services as well as an offering of products that can be implemented on site or run as a managed hosted service. Our SaaS (Software as a Service) model allows you to quickly implement tried and tested solutions at virtually no entry cost with a minimum amount of customizations.

All our web application products and solutions have been deployed at IPL and have been a core component in our drive to improve efficiencies within the organization. Our extensive use of the applications in-house ensures constant fine-tuning and improvements that help the applications evolve.

We also have on hand an accomplished creative team to make sure that software applications not only work well, but are also aesthetically designed and comply with User Interface and User Experience guidelines. Our web design team is well versed current technologies including HTML5, XHTML / CSS to ensure that all web sites and applications not only look great, but also work intuitively on mobile and tablet devices as well.

• Open source platform development on LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL PHP) technologies for web applications result in lower deployment cost and easy to maintain. We also develop bespoke web applications on Microsoft Technologies and Java
• Custom software application development for native applications on Windows and Mac
• Application extension to mobile platforms for use in-browser and through native apps

At IPL, we've been on the customer side for Facility Management Services for over a decade. This puts us in a unique position of understanding all the pain points from a customer perspective and putting in all the right preventive measures to improve efficiencies of day-to-day operations. Our online ticketing application allows us to record, monitor and resolve user complaints with low lead times.

Decades of experience in handling day to day incident management for over 1000 employees in-house and at our group companies as well as maintaining our own data centres gives us a significant advantage over our competition.

• End to end managed support services
• Desktop and Server support
• Networking
• Asset Management & Compliance
• Break Fix AMC
• Infrastructure Maintenance
• Email Managed Services – Lotus Notes, Google Apps and others

IPL provides managed support services for both Oracle Applications and Database. IPL itself has been an Oracle E-Business Suite user since 2005 and since then has upgraded its applications and Oracle database to the current versions.

We provide support services on both applications and services along with our partners to undertake both day-to-day maintenance activities as well as specific customization requests. Like our facility management services, we use our incident management system to log, track and resolve every incoming issue or change request to provide resolutions in the shortest lead times. We also offer consulting as well as project management services for new implementations and upgrades along with our implementation partners.

Currently, our Oracle Support Services are restricted only to promoted ventures of India Pistons Ltd.

• End to end managed Oracle EBS application and database support services
• Consulting for implementation and upgrades
• Issue and SR management
• Maintenance and backup services
• Customization, personalization and custom development services
• Third party application integration
• Email Managed Services – Lotus Notes, Google Apps and others

IPL has on its rolls senior resources with decades of experience in delivering information in mixed media formats for corporate communication and e-learning applications.

We have a team of graphic design, illustration, web design, instructional design, audio and video production and animators (both 3D and 2D) on hand to provide completely interactive and engaging learning content.

On the media side, we have produced corporate AV presentations, brochures, flyers, posters and other graphic design projects, as well as several branding and identity exercises.

• Interactive E-Learning Content Development and delivery
• Multi-platform content development for desktops and mobile devices
• Audio / Video Production and Post Production
• 3D Modeling and Animation, 2D Illustrations and Animation
• Graphic Design for brochures, posters, flyers, branding and identity