Automation and Digitalization are no longer buzzwords but the need of the hour. Southern India has been at the forefront of using new technologies and updating and upgrading. Industries in Southern India Automobile Belt in Oragudam Foundries and valve manufacturers in Coimbatore Textile belt in Tirupur and Coimbatore Machine Tools and food processing industry in Karnataka.  Many industries have their manufacturing base in south India Major system integrators and consultants are in Chennai Automobiles and auto components industry, mines and minerals, and the pharma hubs in Telangana  & Andhra Pradesh.  A large number of Robotic installations in Kerala Service and IT sector in Kerala.  The famous Engineering Institutions around Chennai starting as MIT, IIT, VIT, etc besides the new Autonomous colleges contributed towards the growth of Industries and vice versa during the last 30 years.

Why is Chennai a good place to hold the southern edition of the Automation Expo?
The above situation of Chennai and in general Tamil Nadu definitely has a need to have large exhibitions like Automation Exhibition to be established there to provide the required platform for the Instrumentation & Automation fraternity to interact with each other more closely and at the same time deeply on Innovations and its future in lieu of Technological / Environmental changes happening in the world.  Proximity to Chennai from Coimbatore, Salem, Trichy, Bangalore, Hyderabad, and Telangana