KELTRON

Keltron, Kerala State Electronics Development

Corporation Limited, is a public sector electronics
company located in Kerala.
It is headquartered at the capital city of Kerala,
Thiruvananthapuram. The company is under the
direct control of the State government of Kerala.
KELTRONS history is a saga of innovation in
electronics. From being a pioneer in 1973, to the role
of a trend-setter today, Keltron has been the catalysis
for the development of electronics industry in Kerala.

Within five years of its inception, Keltron had
set up a production centre in every district of
the State. More than 5,000 people were
engaged directly or indirectly by Keltron for
the manufacture of electronic goods.
In its early days, the company produced
DCS,PLC,electronic devices such as
televisions, radios and other consumer
electronics goods


Currently, major products of the company include
mines for Indian navy and various parts of Rockets
for Indian space research organization ISRO.
The company also produces basic electronic
components such as capacitors, transistors, resistors,
diodes, PCBs on a large scale for the Indian market. It
also provides services in the field of information
technology, animation, and web designing
During the early days of Globalization,
Keltron faced severe crisis, and became loss
making unit, due to the failure in competing
with multinational companies.
Recently the company has started recovering
from the crisis and is currently operating in
profit. In 2005-06 the company made a net
turn over of 109 crores with an operating
surplus of 13 crores
Strategic Vision
To be a world-class, growth-oriented
electronics corporation specialized in
providing quality, market-focused products,
services and cost-effective system solutions to
a large clientele. To attain leadership position
in the knowledge industry by training and
utilizing the rich knowledge capital available
in Kerala, and creating a wide technology
horizon for the development of knowledge
wares and intelligent systems
Quality Policy
Quality Policy of Keltron is to achieve total
customer satisfaction through continual
improvement and effective Quality
Management.
SERVICES
Keltron is recognized as a Total Solution Provider to
the Government of Kerala in the field of Information
Technology. Keltron is a licensed ISP by the
Government of India
Networking
Web Services
Co-location and Hosting
IT FACILITY MANAGEMENT SERVICES
Skills Development
IT Education / Knowledge Services
Medical Transcription

Functional Departments
PERSONNEL AND ADMNISTRATION DEPARTMENT
PRODUCTION DEPARTMERNTS
PEG MARKETING
PLANNING
SSG PRODUCTION
QUALITY CONTROL
SPG TEST CHECKING
FINANCE
PURCHASE DEPARTMENT
PERSONNEL & ADMINISTRATION DEPARTMENT
Human resource being one of the greatest
assets of the company, the personal
department looks after the well being of the
employees.
KEY FUNCTIONS

Recruitment
Establishment
Time office function
Welfare function
Statutory function
Industrial function trade union management
Training and development
Disciplinary cases
Product Profile
KELTRON EQUIPMENT COMPLEX, Karakulam
has three production departments and two service
departments. Each department is associated with
different products .they are:
Security and surveillance group (SSG)
Special products group (SPG)
Power electronic group (PEG)
Data entry information technology (DEIT)
Identity card processing (IDCP)

1.SECURITY AND SURVILLANCE GROUP (SSG)
Division executed for the manufacture, supply and
integrated parts of broadcast equipments, attendance
and access control and security system.
(ADMS) Attendance data management system,
computers automatic fare and stored forward
collection systems, message switching system etc.
CCTV systems, display system for airport and railways,
broadcast engineering products, radio communication
systems, fire alarm systems, micro wave video transmission
system

Major projects executed to:


CCTV and Surveillance monitoring system at parliament,
PMs residence etc
CCTV systems in process industries like Vizag steel plant,
Starlit industries etc
Installations in Doordarsan and All India Radio.
Attendance data management system in the major
industrial establishments in the country
Installed Traffic Signal Systems all over India in the last
three decades.
Maintenance of Traffic Signals in Delhi.
Maintenance of Traffic Signals in Mumbai.
Current Project
CGRAPS Project for Pune Municipal Corporation
IGVTDC Project for Kolkatta Police.
Supply, Installations and Commissioning of
Traffic Signals in 44 Junctions for Greater
Mumbai Municipal Corporation.

Supply, Installation and Commissioning of
Solar Powered Traffic Signal System for
Nagpur Municipal Corporation


2.SPECIAL PRODUCTS GROUP
SPG section designs, manufactures and
supplies electronic equipments for defense
and space application
processor based ground mine
E.M log
Steering gear control system
Echo sounder
Under water telephone
SERCH AND RESCUE BEACON


3. POWER ELECTRONIC GROUP
PEG division established for design and
manufacture of power circuits. They mainly
manufacture high power rectifiers , UPS
(Uninterruptible power supply system)DC & AC
thyrister, control speed drives , battery charges ,
high capacity voltage stabilizers , power plant
for DOT exchanges , AC&DC distribution
boards.
- Rectifiers
- Battery Chargers
- High Capacity Voltage Stabilisers
- AC & DC Distribution Boards
- Energy Savers
- High Frequency Transformers g. Traffic
Management Systems
FINANCE DEPARTMENT
Finance department deals with planning, controlling
of firms financial resources. It deals with finding out
various sources of raving funds for the firm. The
sources must be suitable and economical for the
needs of the borrower.
The finance and accounts of KEC is divided into five
functional sections as under:

Cash and Compilation
Purchase accounts
Sales accounts
Costing
Pay roll
KEY FUNCTIONS
Managing cash and bank transactions
Sales accounting
purchase accounting
Pay roll management
Finalization of accounts
costing and cost accounting
Budgetary control
To meet audit requirements
Statutory payments & accounts

MARKETING DEPARTMENT
The marketing department carries out the functions of
Retaining a considerable market share
Creating customer satisfaction
Ensuring that the finished products reach the
customers at the right place, right time, and
responsible price and is of the right quantity



The marketing department is doing the
following functions
Pricing
Credit policy
Sales promotion
Packaging
Distribution channels
Customer satisfaction

Planning
The planning department broadly has two
functions
Material requisition planning
Production planning and control
PRODUCTION
KEY FUNCTIONS
Production planning
Arrangement for material, tools and instruments
Work allotment
Production monitoring
Forward production for line inspection
Rework where required
Reporting of production summary
Evaluate reason for variation in production]
QUALITY ASSURANCE
Key functions
Inspection of incoming material
Stage inspection of different assemblies
Inspection at suppliers premises
Final inspection of products
Coordination of customer inspection
Objectives
Reduce the time of incoming material inspection
Reduce the time of stage inspection
Reduce the major customer comments in final
inspection

TESTING
The testing dept does the testing of all printed
circuit board, sub assembly and final products
Key functions
Receipt of assembled or inspected products
Carrying out functional tests
Reporting the functional test status including
acceptance, rejections and rework status
Carrying out functional test of reworked
products
PURCHASE DEPARTMENT
The purchase department is connected with raw materials and
spares.
Key functions
Verification of purchase requirements
Sending enquiries and getting quotations
Preparing comparison and negotiating with suppliers
Proposing order and approval and releasing the same
Material clearance
Re return in replacement

SWOT ANALYSIS
Strength
Infrastructure facilities.
Experienced and qualified technical persons.
High net worth.
Uninterrupted power supply
Customers are top in India
High credit worthiness.
ISO certification.
Weakness
Maintenance down time problems.
Uncontrolled increase in the price of raw materials
and oils
Lack of promotional activities.
Lack of weighing equipments.
Requirement of Govt. sanctions for each and every
work.
Long procedural delays.
Under utilization of men and machinery

Opportunity
Growth of infrastructure sector in national
level.
Globalization of economy supports import of
raw material.
Less requirement of promotion programmes.
More favorable government policies.

Threat
Increased competition due to liberalization of
economy.
Fast changing technology.
Lessened availability of labour.
Presence of fake or less quality products in market at
very low price
FINDINGS
The companys main strength is its skilled and
dedicated work force
Good employer- employee relations there by
creating good working condition
Company giving importance ti lean manufacturing
Company giving importance to employee welfare.
Good industrial relations
More importance is given on training and
development
SUGGESTIONS
To improve the activities of marketing
department
Maintaining the customer satisfaction with
modernization and up gradation of
technology
Add more clients to its expertise
CONCLUSION