Artec Sriman Controlls Private Limited was founded by D.Ramakrishna Naidu, Mrs.Padmini Ramakrishna and Mr.R.Balakrishna on 15 January 1981 as a family-owned, Technology-rich industrial consultancy enterprise.

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Mission

Artec Sriman Controlls Private Limited is committed to excel in the field of Robotics - an all encompassing endeavor, fulfill its vision and thereby enhance the quality of life for its Customers, Suppliers, Support and service providers, Employees, Bankers, Shareholders and Society at large. Through its Training and knowledge dissemination programs, create excellent human resource, specializing in Robotics. Through R&D, develop Robotics and excellent products to cater to the needs of Industries and Consumers.

The name signifies Ramakrishna’s Technology, using the phonetic “Ar” and “tec”. Sriman is an abbreviation of Scientifically Researched Industrial Management. Controlls is to signify both Industrial controls and Management controls. It is spelled with a double L, deliberately to distinguish a cognizable control object (Noun), rather than as a verb “to control” wherein a single L usage is normal!

Artec is unique because it has adopted D.Ramakrishna Naidu’s philosophy of pushing the envelope of technology rather than blindly follow conventional engineering practices. The vast array of achievements, several “firsts” for a developing country like India and even at global levels in many an instance, are testimony to the efficacy of this philosophy.

The company also does not take out Patents deliberately, as it makes its own products obsolete in a reasonably short life cycle and thus be at the leading edge of human endeavor. Witness the contributions made in the field of Computer science applications to engineering and technology, rather than the mundane commercial applications viz.Accounting/Finance, Banking, Insurance etc. wherein the genius lies in multiple file handling rather than a complex algorithm, as in the Technical arena.

“Technology for prosperity” has always been the underlying theme at Artec.

While two of the founders continue as Directors, Mr.R.Balakrishna pursued his Mechanical engineering post graduation through a M.S.(by Research*) in Robotics at I.I.Sc., Bangalore, a globally recognized centre of excellence, (*published internationally in the IEEE Journal of Robotics & Automation, a seminal paper titled "Modelling of slip and other non-linearities for wheeled mobile robots" - 1993 ). He is presently holding a senior position at a PLM company that is the industry leader with worldwide operations and he is located in the US. His well thought out advise to the company is constantly available and is also the Resident Representative of Artec in the U.S.

In keeping with the spirit of research-based daring engineering, Artec has given a lead to the world’s Navies, by the invention of TARDAMS, a brainchild of D.Ramakrishna Naidu, which is detailed separately on this website. This could easily be identifiable as EXTREME Engineering.

This is a very large paradigm shift in the technology of operating Heavy helicopters on board Maritime crafts and gives an unprecedented boost to “Search and Rescue” operations at sea in very adverse weather conditions conceived by the mastery of Robotics at Artec.

An unprecedented oversized, redundant Robotic arm with a reach of 30 metres and payload capacity of 20 tonnes enables safe landings and launchings of heavy helicopters through total compensation of ship motion and synchronized docking rather than “thumping” of the deck in the present conventional systems, which severely strain the undercarriages.

A paper titled “Retrofitting the TARDAMS” was presented by D.Ramakrishna Naidu at Nice, France on 4 September 2006, on invitation by MAST Confex-a global event. A substantial response was evoked from the gathered International audience of Naval and Maritime experts.
The American defense contractor giant Lockheed Martin has referred the TARDAMS paper to their R&D departments for their immediate on-going projects.

Funding for realization of a “Sea duty worthy” prototype to the extent of USD 3 Million is being actively pursued. The Indian Navy and Coast Guard have also been given multiple presentations on TARDAMS and Artec has been asked to get the assistance of India’s own giant Defence Contractors for the development of the prototype. One of them has assured manufacturing support to Artec. The potential market for TARDAMS is identified as approximately USD 14 to 15 Billion, realizable over a spread of 5 - 6 years, after the prototype is demonstrated.

Indeed, Artec is a small company with big dreams! The Artec Founders are ever optimistic and a systematic plan to market this is in operation. This website itself is a part of that effort. Androids, a highly advanced form of Robotics, are an ongoing activity and a glimpse is available on this website. This is the not-too-distant future for the betterment of mankind and is very much in line with the VISION of D.Ramakrishna Naidu.

This illustrates the pioneering efforts at Artec in bringing and mastering cutting edge technologies to a slowly but surely maturing economy like that of India. Artec ensures that employment and quality of life of Humanity is enhanced and there is no generation of unemployment, by applying our skills in areas of “obnoxious” and “hazardous” application of humans. For example, Heavy armature Soldering- wherein Human operators are exposed to Tin and Lead fumes, LPG leak detection- wherein failure to identify and reject leaky cylinders in the production line can lead to loss of life, LPG cylinder bulk handling- wherein the back bones of the Human loaders get permanently damaged, Semi-conductor industry-wherein Humans are inadmissible, Painting-wherein lung disorders are a constant hazard, Heavy Welding-wherein humans cannot sustain continuous duty, Nuclear sampling and testing-Wherein Radiation hazard is well known and the list is growing!

By a long record of daring engineering, Artec assures safe operation of any payload (weight), any reach (distance) and any speed (time) that a customer can “dream” up as a challenge. Need we say more?