Sugar drives the world and the industry by itself churns close to a USD 100 billion in revenue globally. The largest producer of sugar is Brazil with a huge lead over the rest however India stands second here too and produces about 15% of the world output of Sugar. With a large population and sugar being a part of sweet diet as well as an essential ingredient in different food categories leads to large domestic consume as well. India is a large importer of sugar as well and domestic produce isn’t usually enough.

Though sugar can be produced from sugarcane, sugar-beet or another crop with sugar content, India only uses sugarcane as the primary raw material.

Sugar is the second largest agro based industry after cotton textiles industry in India. Also a large part of the existing sugar processing infrastructure is small in capacity and often as old as 50 years. With multiple moving parts, rolling belts, crushers and shakers, Condition Monitoring could be the differentiator between operations and breakdown.