Varun Arora
General Manager – Exor India, Head of Sales – Middle East & China
Exor India is the Indian subsidiary of EXOR International S.p.A., the Italian industrial automation company, globally known for its advanced HMI, edge devices, and IoT driven solutions. We began our journey in 2001 as a software development center serving EXOR’s global market, and in subsequent years we’ve grown into a full commercial entity with headquarters in Mumbai and a pan India sales and service network.
Over the past two decades, we’ve scaled from a development hub to a leading provider of digitization solutions, edge computing technologies, and industrial IoT platforms for Indian manufacturers. We collaborate closely with EXOR’s R&D in Italy on HMI and embedded systems, while helping Indian customers imagine and implement their digital platforms from shop floor interfaces to cloud analytics.
What are the company’s core business areas and product portfolio?
Our core business areas are industrial visualization, edge computing and control, and cloud based Industrial IoT and smart manufacturing. Concretely, our portfolio is aligned with exorint.com and corvina.io
- Industrial HMIs and panel PCs for machine and plant visualization, including the eX200 and eX700 series.
- Web and HTML5 based HMIs for modern, browser driven user experience.
- HMI + Control devices that combine operator interface with powerful control and connectivity features.
- IoT gateways eXware & MicroEdge devices that collect data from machines and securely move it to the cloud.
- The X Platform hardware ecosystem and the CORVINA cloud platform, which together provide secure, scalable Industrial IoT, remote monitoring, predictive maintenance, and smart manufacturing capabilities.
What differentiates EXOR India from other automation and HMI solution providers?
What truly differentiates us is our platform vision and how we deliver it locally. Globally, EXOR has moved beyond “just HMIs” into the X Platform a unified ecosystem of rugged HMIs with edge intelligence, the JMobile software environment, and the CORVINA cloud backbone. This lets customers go from interface to intelligence, with HTML5, OPC UA, MQTT, over 200 industrial protocols, and secure cloud integration all working together.
In India, we combine that platform approach with strong local engineering, digital readiness assessments, custom solution design, implementation, and lifecycle optimization services. So customers get global technology and local execution one partner for HMI, edge, cloud, and real world deployment instead of fragmented solutions.
Market & industry
How do you view the current trends in industrial automation and digital transformation in India?
We see India in the middle of a decisive shift from isolated machines to connected, data driven manufacturing ecosystems. Across sectors, factories are investing in digital infrastructure that integrates hardware, software, and cloud platforms to improve efficiency, flexibility, and responsiveness.
Human machine interfaces, IIoT gateways, and edge computing technologies are becoming the backbone of this transformation, enabling real time decisions at the edge and strategic insights in the cloud. Government initiatives like “Make in India” and industry’s push toward Industry 4.0 are accelerating adoption of smart manufacturing and IIoT solutions.
Which industries are currently driving the highest demand for your solutions?
That’s the beauty of Exor products, due to high level of adaptability based on application needs, our products fit into a wide range of industrial segments. Currently, we see strong demand from discrete manufacturing, automotive, packaging, process industries, OEM machine builders, and system integrators who are building Industry 4.0 ready solutions. Sectors like food and beverage, pharma, and metals also rely on our rugged HMIs and connectivity solutions to meet regulatory, quality, and uptime requirements.
Our X Platform based visualization systems and CORVINA edge and cloud solutions are being widely adopted by OEMs and integrators who want to offer connected machines and remote services to their customers. That OEM and partner ecosystem is a major driver of growth for Exor India.
What challenges do manufacturers face today, and how does EXOR India help address them?
Manufacturers face several challenges: legacy equipment with limited connectivity, siloed data, difficulty scaling pilots across plants, and concerns around cybersecurity and remote access. Most of the companies know that they need to digitalize, but don’t always know where to start or how to avoid vendor lock in.
We address these challenges by offering interoperable HMIs and gateways, open protocols, and a cloud platform designed for secure edge to cloud integration. Our services digital readiness assessments, custom solution design, implementation, and lifecycle optimization guide customers step by step from initial use cases to scalable deployments. The result is a practical digitalization roadmap rather than isolated, one off projects.
Technology & innovation
Please highlight your flagship products and latest technology offerings.
Our flagship offerings are based on the X Platform and CORVINA. On the hardware side, the eX700 and eX200 series HMIs provide powerful, future ready visualization and control with support for modern protocols and HTML5 interfaces. The MicroEdge and eXware series gateways, enable efficient, scalable IIoT connectivity from machine level to the cloud.
On the software and cloud side, JMobile gives customers an intuitive environment for building custom dashboards and operator interfaces, while CORVINA provides secure, modular, cloud native Industrial IoT services including device management(CEM), remote monitoring(VPN), and analytics. Together, these constitute a full edge to cloud platform rather than just individual products.
Are there any recent product launches or technological innovations you would like to showcase?
A key focus recently has been on extending CORVINA solution with capabilities like Edge Manager and Hub Repository, which centralize software artifacts, enable remote deployment, automated updates, and enterprise grade security across fleets of edge devices. This is especially valuable for OEMs and multi site factories in India and other geographies that want consistent, secure management of their connected assets.
On the hardware side we have the latest Xedge series, which is a Edge device offering both, with & without display options, MicroEdge series gateways, and enhanced X Platform integrations with CORVINA Cloud. These innovations make it easier for factories to adopt smart manufacturing in a modular, incremental way starting from a single machine and scaling up to entire lines or plants.
How are IoT, Industry 4.0, Edge Computing, Cloud Connectivity, and AI influencing your product development strategy?
These technologies are no longer optional they’re foundational to how we design products. IoT and edge computing dictate our focus on connectivity, interoperability, and local data processing near the machine. Cloud connectivity via CORVINA gives manufacturers global visibility, remote control, and the ability to roll out new features and services over the air.
Industry 4.0 and AI influence our roadmap by pushing us toward smarter HMIs and gateways that can support predictive maintenance, anomaly detection, and optimization algorithms. Our aim is to make these capabilities accessible to Indian manufacturers through open architecture, built in cybersecurity, and intuitive tools rather than complex, proprietary stacks.
Customer success
Could you share a few successful customer applications or case studies?
EXOR’s global portfolio includes cases such as Swick Mining, Rate Australia, Unifarco, Moreali, Mathews Company, and AIRCO Systems, to name a few, where the X Platform and CORVINA delivered tangible benefits from digitizing rigs to improving energy management and reducing paper usage. These examples show how connected HMIs, edge devices, and CORVINA can boost OEE, quality, and sustainability.
In India, we are working with OEMs and factories where upgrading to eX700/eX200 series HMIs and MicroEdge gateways has enabled centralized monitoring, faster diagnostics, and better asset utilization. Many of these customers are moving from basic visualization to full edge to cloud solutions, transforming daily operations with real time data into high quality decision making tool.
Which industries or projects best demonstrate the effectiveness of your solutions?
Smart manufacturing projects in discrete manufacturing, packaging, and automotive show our platform at its best HMIs on the machines, edge gateways at the line level, and CORVINA dashboards consolidating data across plants. OEMs that embed our X Platform based visualization and IoT gateways into their equipment demonstrate how EXOR’s technology can turn traditional machines into smart, service enabled products.
These projects underline our strength in serving both end users and machine builders, delivering consistent value from operator experience up to business level KPIs.
Manufacturing, quality & standards
How does EXOR India ensure product quality, reliability, and customer satisfaction?
Quality starts with EXOR International’s design and manufacturing in Italy, where products are engineered for industrial environments and global standards. In India, we extend that with proper application engineering, correct product selection, and timely technical support, so devices are not just installed but truly integrated into customers’ processes.
We emphasize long term partnerships supporting customers through upgrades, lifecycle management, and continuous improvement rather than one time deliveries. Feedback from the Indian market is actively shared with global R&D so future generations of products reflect our customers’ evolving needs.
What certifications and international standards do your products comply with?
EXOR’s hardware and software platforms are subject to important industry certifications and type approvals, including:
- ATEX and IECEx (hazardous areas, typically Zone 2/22)
- UL and cULus / UL Class I Division 2 (North American hazardous locations)
- DNV / DNV GL (marine and offshore class approvals)
- EU MR (EU RO MR) –European marine equipment type approval accepted by major classification societies such as ABS, BV, CCS, DNV, IRS, KR, LR, NK, PRS, RINA, RS, etc.
These certifications enable Indian OEMs using Exor HMIs, edge gateways, and visualization systems to export machinery with confidence that the human–machine interface and connectivity layer already meet international expectations for safety, hazardous areas, and marine applications.
Cybersecurity and regulatory alignment
IEC 62443 ready architectures: Our edge gateways and IIoT solutions are positioned to support IEC 62443-aligned network segmentation, firewalling, and secure remote access patterns important for customers targeting global cybersecurity expectations.
EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) & NIS2 readiness: We actively design with emerging EU regulations in mind (CRA, NIS2), offering secure boot, hardened OS images, and lifecycle management to help OEMs meet evolving compliance obligations when exporting to Europe and beyond.
Corvina Cloud / X Platform: security and data protection standards
For the cloud and data layer (Corvina.io / X Platform), we align with widely recognized security and data center standards, including:
ISO/IEC 27001:2024
IEC 62443 2 4 (industrial network and system security) and NIST Cybersecurity Framework 1.0 alignment for secure industrial data flows.
End to end encryption using standard SSL/TLS cipher suites for sessions between devices, gateways, and cloud services.
Sustainability
How is EXOR India contributing to sustainability, energy efficiency, and environmentally responsible manufacturing?
We view sustainability and efficiency as direct outcomes of better data and control. By enabling real time monitoring, predictive maintenance, and remote control through CORVINA and our edge devices, we help manufacturers reduce downtime, optimize energy use, and minimize waste. In many projects, improved visibility alone leads to measurable reductions in resource consumption.
Exor India is also committed to eco conscious practices such as responsible e-waste management and lifecycle optimization, as highlighted in our digitization services messaging. As Indian factories adopt smart manufacturing, we aim to be a technology partner that supports both productivity and environmental responsibility.
Future outlook
What are your growth plans for India over the next three to five years?
Over the next three to five years, we see India as one of the key growth engines for EXOR globally. Our plan is to deepen our presence through expanded sales coverage, stronger partnerships with OEMs and system integrators, and more localized solutions and services tailored to Indian requirements.
We intend to invest further in skills, support, and co innovation with customers helping them move from pilot projects to plant wide and enterprise wide digital platforms based on X Platform and CORVINA. The target is clear: to be a trusted, long term partner for smart manufacturing and digital transformation in India.
Are there any upcoming products, technologies, partnerships, or investments you would like to announce?
We are continuously enhancing CORVINA with new edge management, security, and deployment capabilities to support more complex, distributed industrial architectures. Based on the global R&D activities, where close to one-third of our global workforce is working, our customers in India will keep seeing new variants of the Edge devices, HMIs, IIoT gateways, and integrated solutions that make adoption simpler and more cost effective.
On partnerships, we are actively collaborating with OEMs, integrators, and technology partners who share our vision of advanced, scalable, secure Industry 4.0 solutions for the Indian market. We’re open to strategic alliances that can accelerate digital transformation and bring more value to Indian manufacturers.
How do you envision the future of industrial automation in India?
I believe the future of industrial automation in India will be platform driven and data centric factories will expect edge to cloud solutions rather than isolated products. Machines will not just respond; they will predict, adapt, and collaborate through connected HMIs, IoT gateways, and AI enabled analytics.
Indian manufacturers will increasingly use these capabilities to compete globally, reduce downtime, and enable new service based business models. EXOR, through Exor India and CORVINA, aims to be at the heart of this shift helping build smart factories that are agile, efficient, and sustainable.
Leadership perspective
Please share a message from your leadership team for EngineeringCore Newswire readers.
To all EngineeringCore Newswire readers Engineers, System Integrators, OEMs, and plant leaders this is a defining moment for Indian manufacturing. Digital transformation is no longer a distant vision; it’s becoming part of daily operations, and your decisions today will shape the factories of tomorrow.
At Exor India, our message is: let’s partner to turn Industry 4.0 into practical, scalable solutions, not just buzzwords. With EXOR’s X Platform and CORVINA, combined with our local expertise, we’re ready to help you connect, digitalize, and succeed step by step.
What advice would you offer to Indian manufacturers embracing smart manufacturing and digital transformation?
My advice is to start with clear, high value use cases such as energy monitoring, OEE improvement, or remote support and build your first projects around those. Choose open, interoperable platforms so you can integrate legacy assets and scale without being locked into closed ecosystems.
Equally important, invest in your people and processes; technology succeeds when operators, engineers, and management share a common data driven mindset. And finally, select partners who can support you end to end from HMI to edge to cloud so your journey is incremental, low risk, and firmly tied to real business outcomes.
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