From M.D.'S

GREETINGS

On behalf of the management and myself, I wish to convey the greeting to all our esteemed customers, well wishers and other members of the families for a

"HAPPY & PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR"

The year 2002 was the beginning for Praga to consolidate its strength and rejuvenate its energy for ultimate Goal of Turnaround.

We, at Praga, in all these months have never focused on the worry about lack and limitation of resources but faithfully, concentrated on solutions to our Production and Marketing problems and visualised the success.

We have already formulated our vision to make Praga - one of the best three Machine Tool Company of India by the year 2005. On this account, it is not far fetched to realise this vision as can be gauged from the report on bench marking for Machine Tool Industry carried out recently by the IMTMA-the apex body of the industry, which has indicated that with regard to Quality of the Machine and services, Praga is among the Best four Companies in the country and is also fairly placed at No.8 and 9 position in Technology / Design Development and information management respectively out of 21 companies surveyed in the country.

We are not complacent with the above results but will improve over the coming years and achieve our vision. In this direction, Praga for the first time has made headway in devising out a Marketing Plan - 2002 to 2007 which has given an impetus of W3 (Where We Were), W3 2B (Where We Want To Be), W2R (Where We Are) & w4 (Where We Went Wrong)

I believe that the year 2003 will show us a road to success and prosperity through productivity. Needless to say, it is not possible to achieve S_CCESS without U (customer) in the coming year 2003.

We once again reiterate that, we are committed to Customer Care with K3B (KABHIBHI, KAHIBHI, KAISEBHI) and provide unmatched services always.

- KISHAN MEHROTRA

BALASAHEB VIKHE PATIL
The Hon'ble Union Minister for
Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises

Shri Balasaheb Vikhe Patil, the Hon'ble Union Minister for Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises is a highly erudite and dynamic personality. His contribution towards social welfare and development activities are well known. It will not be out of place to mention about his achievements in the upliftment of the weaker sections of the society, establishing Social, Educational, Health and Financial institutions in cooperative sector for promoting agriculture % rural development. Shri Patil hasbeen elected to the Lok sabha 7 times since 1971, and headed various committees on Agriculture, Communications, HRD at national / International level.

Shri Patil has a very incisive and modern outlook and is a widely travelled person around the world. His prolific writings in leading Marathi and English dailies and magazines shows his multifaceted personality.

Praga Tools, considers itself fortunate to have him as Hon'ble Union Minister for Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises. Under his dynamic leadership & able guidance. Praga would eventually steer out successfully from its present predicament & turnaround in a shortest possible time.

NARESH NARAD TOOK OVER AS SECRETARY, MINISTRY OF HI & PE

Shri Naresh Narad IAS - MP Cadre is presently Secretary Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises. He is responsible for administration of 49 Public Sector Enterprises (PSEs) engaged in various activities like Power, Paper, Cement, Automobile, Machine Tools, Heavy Engineering Equipment and Electrical Engineering Industries. As Secretary in the Department of Public Enterprises, he is responsible for policy / guidelines governing all the 250 PSEs of Government of India. Before joining Ministry of HI & PE, he was special secretary in the ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas. He aslo served as Joint Secretary in the Ministry of steel, Govt. of India. He also worked in the Union Govt. as Director, Ministry of Works and Housing and Member Secretary, The National Commission on Urbanization during the period 1983 - 1984. Praga looks forward to his continued support and able guidance.

 

Production Line of Our Machines

Cutter and Tool Grinders

Thread Rolling Machine

Surface Grinders
     
Despatches to New Customers

EXPORTS :

   
     

TO USA
SG 454 AP
Honeywell Inc

TO Nigeria
SG 455H
Chanderia Group

Deemed Export
SG 451P
Hindustan Lever
     

DOMESTIC :

   
     

Surface Grinder Model 452 P
Jolly Containers, Pune

Surface Grinder Model 455H
Gala Equipment, Mumbai

Thread Rolling Machine Model 514
Punjab Bevel Gears, Delhi

 

Tool and Cutter Grinder Model - 414
Sandhar Tooling, Gurgaon

Thread Rolling Machine Model - 512
Jackgon - Rajkot

Tool and Cutter Grinder Model - 411
Auto Com, Chennai

Praga's new clientele in the export and Domestic markets underlines
the Aggressive Marketing adopted by the company

Customer Care :

 

Praga's Emphasis on Customer Care can be gauged with the extent of visits to the customers for their problems regarding the Machines. These complaints have been attended to with in two days of its reporting by the customer.

Some of customers who were visited are - Jolly Containers, Jackgon, Indo-German Tool Room, Ametronics, Glowtronics, Ace Designers, SRV Telecom, Success Systems, Subhash Pipes, Anasuya Auto Indian Terminal Connective System, Hindustan Lever, Speciality Valves, Anu Overseas, Cable Engineering, Grozbeckert, Micron instrument, Abrol Engineering, Kangaroo, yamaha Motors, Obreitech and Ordance Factory, Kanput, Vehicle Factory, Jabalpur and Gun Carriage Factory, Jabalpur OF Trichy & HVF, Avadi.

WHEEL BALANCING on PRAGA's Surface Grinder and Cutter & Tool Grinder
Accessory required : Static Wheel Balancing Equipment

About Wheel Balancing

 

The external grinding wheels are mounted on flanges which can be readily withdrawn from the wheel spindle. Balance weights or wedges are fitted to the wheel flange by means of which the wheel is properly balanced. This is done before the sleeve carrying the wheel is fifted to the wheel spindle.

To fit a new wheel to the flange unscrew lock nut which has a left hand thread and withdraw flange. Remove existing wheel and fit a new wheel on to the fixed flange. Refit flange and screw tightly. The ensemble should then be fitted on the taper of the balancing mandrel supplied and placed upon a balancing tool for preference and parallel blocks. The wedges should then be loosened and moved until the wheel is perfectly balanced.
HOW TO BALANCE THE WHEEL

1. Securely lock wheel on to the flanges - Fix balance weights diametrically opposite. Dress the wheel.

2. Remove assembly from wheel head and mount on balancing mandrel - Place on balancing unit , and allow to turn until it stops, then mark top center of wheel.

3. Move balance weights to 90 deg. from mark and diametrically opposite.

4. Move weights equally towards mark approx.3 mm at a time until assembly remains static in any position. Remount assembly on to wheel mount and redress wheel before putting into operation.
     

Pulley Forming Machine

Pulley forming machine is an unique application of Cold form rolling where "v" belt pulley can be rolled from a flat circular bank with central hole. The pulley produced by rolling is known as Split pulley. The converntional way of making pulleys involves casting, machining, grooving, balancing etc. which takes several days to turn out a single pulley. On the pulley forming machine, a pulley can be rolled from a punched blank to final pulley with 40 to 50 Sec. The salient features of the machine are very high productivity, high accuracies, consistency, durability and economy. This is very useful for automobile and electric motor industries.

The Cost - benefit analysis has been enumerated below :

Cost estimates per piece on Praga Pulley Forming Machine Cost estimates per piece bythe normal Pulley forming process viz. through Casting and machining on Lathe etc.

Assumption :
No. of Pulley produced per year -2,52,000 based on 7hrs. per shift, 2 shifts/day 300 days per year and floor to floor time of 1 minute.

 Assumption :
No. of pulleys produced per year - 30,000 based on 7 hrs/2shifts/day,300 days per year and machining time of 8.3 minutes.
Material cost per piece

Rs. 13.90

Rs.24.00
Fixed cost per piece

Rs. 4.10
Rs. 7.00(machining)
Total cost per piece

Rs.18.00

Rs. 31.00
Selling price per piece

Rs.35.00*

Rs.35.00*
Gross Profit per piece

Rs.17.00
Rs. 4.00
Total Gross Profit

Rs.42.84 lakhs

Rs.1.20 lakhs

Hence, due to the high productivity and low cost of operation the Groos profit of manufacturing Pulleys on Praga Pulley Forming machine is 36 times than that by the conventional process of casting / machining etc.

* In Praga's machine, No dynamic balancing required while for cast pulley extra expenses required for dynamic balancing.

 

Do you know that Praga since inception has supplied to India Industry ?

5,550 Nos. of Surface Grinding Machines
3,530 Nos. of Cutter and Tool Grinding Machines
1,420 Nos. of Universal Milling Machines
1,035 Nos. of Thread Rolling Machines
100 Nos. of Copying Lathes
162 Nos. of CNC Mitsubishi Horizontal machining centres
65 Nos. of CNC - Keiyo Seiki Lathes
80,340 Nos. of of Lathe Chucks

Do you know about Pragas' Competence ?

The single most important competency that Praga has acquired is the State of the art Engineering know how achieved over 60years of dedication, hard work and through Technical collaboration with the world renowned manufacturers of machine tools like :

Mitsubishi Heavy Industries - Japan - CNC HORIZONTAL M/C CENTRE
Keiyo Seiki - Japan - CNC LATHE
Jones & Shipman - UK , - SURFACE GRINDER
Escofier - France, - TOOL & CUTTER GRINDER
Gambin - France - THREAD ROLLING MACHINE
  - PULLEY FORMING MACHINE
  - TUBE FINNING MACHINE
  - SPLINE ROLLING MACHINE
Gambin - France - UNIVERSAL MILLING MACHINE
George Fisher - Switzerland, - COPYING LATHE
Pratt Burned - UK, - LATHE CHUCKS
PRODUCT RANGE

Thread Roling Machine

 CNC Horizontal Machining Centre

Spline Rolling Machine

 CNC Vertical Machining Centre

Pulley Forming Machine

 CNC Lathe.

Tube Finning Machine

 CNC Milling Machine

Cutter and Tool Grinder

 CNC Cutter & Tool Grinder, (3 Axes & 4 Axes)

Surface Grinder

 CNC Surface Grinder

Surface Grinder with Long Column Version.

 Surface Grinder with Auto Grinding Cycle.

Lathe Chucks.

 Surface Grinder with Mico Processor Control System.
Hydraulic Power Chucks