TUV Rheinland Executive: EU customer would prefer Indian product over Chinese

Germany based TUV Rheinland operates one of the world's best test/product certification facility for compliance certification of electronics products in Bangalore, India. In India, there is new rule going to be effective from Mar 2013, where 15 IT products need to be registered with Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) so that they are compliant with new standards. This means lot of tests need to be done on these equipments. TUV Rheinland offers facilities in Bangalore for such testing. Kalyan Varma, Country Head, Products, TUV Rheinland India shared some of his thoughts on emerging opportunities and how his company TUV Rheinland playing the role of test infrastructure provider for the forecasted $400 Billion electronics hardware market by year 2020. Here is what he conveys in a one-to-one interaction with this writer: Why a test facility for India: Kalyan: India is emerging as hub of embedded solutions or design solution, the moment you touch hardware design for Indian market especially in global point of view, you need to do some mandatory regulations certification to be done-- that could be wireless -- that could be EMC-- that could be safety testing. Kalyan claims his company offers lot more extensive tests which are not available in STQC facilities operated by Government. He gives an example of Bluetooth integrated product such as tablet computer, which can not be c...