Mr. Kailash Mariappan is the Founder, CEO and CTO of KioTek Digi Networks in USA and India.
He has a Bachelor degree in technology from Madras Institute of Technology and MBA in marketing and finance, certificate in leadership and interpersonal skills from the USA.
He has 21 years of proven technical and management experience in multinational companies such as Coca Cola, Saint Gobain, Novo Nordisk, Thermo Fisher Scientific in the USA..
Accomplishments:
Invented an automatic computer vision and PLC controlled product inspection system that is now being replicated in all the major Coca Cola bottling plants in North America
Established industrial wireless system to access the PLC and HMI network in production plants
Established remote access system to diagnose industrial automation system
Presented papers on remote diagnostics and application of cloud computing in industrial automation in international conferences in Chicago, USA and Melbourne, Australia.
Management skills:
Market analysis, problem identification and business plan development
Strategy planning for new product development, promotion and distribution
Team building, organizational development and direction
Marketing, Sales and Financial management
Legal compliance
Project management skills: Successful completion of more than 300 industrial automation and production line improvement projects for multinational companies in India, Europe and USA.
Technical experience:
Decades of proven experience and strong skills in design, procurement, integration, marketing, programming, installation, configuration, commissioning, maintenance, troubleshooting, supervision and project management in the industrial automation industry with a focus on the below advanced technologies.
Industrial wired and wireless networking
M2M communication
Machine learning
Industrial IOT
Remote diagnostics
3D printing
Big data analytics
ICS Cyber security
Robotics
Virtualization
Mobile and Wearable technologies
Augmented Reality
PLC, HMI, SCADA, DCS, Vision
