TCS goes off the beaten track

The IT firm is tapping an emerging opportunity that could be a growth driver for the entire IT services industry for the next two to three years

Every super critical boiler in thermal power plants need to be fine-tuned annually to meet safety and attain maximum efficiency. The 12-14 days time taken for each boiler to be fine tuned or synchronised also means that the system is shut for power generation resulting in millions of dollars of lost revenue for the utility operator. Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) came with the answer that helps cut the time taken to synchronise a boiler in three to four days, a third of what it used to take Japan’s Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems (MHPS). It captured data through sensors on the