Lifetime Achievement Award for Premchand Goliya
Published on : Monday 30-11--0001
Premchand Goliya, Chairman and MD, MECO Instruments, was honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award by the IEC.
There are not many entrepreneurs who have straddled the field of business for over 50 years and still going strong. Premchand Goliya, Chairman and MD, MECO Instruments Pvt Ltd, belongs to this rare breed. So it was only apt that during the 15th Anniversary Celebration of the Instrumentation Experts Club (IEC) in Mumbai recently, Mr Goliya was honoured with a Lifetime Achievement Award for his contribution as a pioneer in the Test & Measuring Instruments domain.
MECO is an ISO 9001: 2015 certified company offering various reliable, long-lasting and affordable instruments since 1962. The company has a team of skilled and trained personnel equipped with complete in-house facility for design, development and manufacturing world class products. Many products have been designed by the in-house R&D Department, recognised by the Department of Scientific & Industrial Research, Ministry of Science & Technology, Govt of India, for which MECO has 30 design patents.
Though hailing from a small business family of Rajasthan that relocated to Mumbai in the 1940s, Premchand Goliya did not inherit the business in its present form, but built it himself from scratch. The family business was essentially a distribution channel for imported instruments which faced rough weather in the early 1960s thanks the restriction on imports placed by the government during that period. Mr Goliya, then a young graduate in electrical engineering, travelled to Japan and learned the ropes of manufacturing basic electrical voltage and ampere meters. He was helped in this endeavour by several Japanese instrument manufacturers in terms of sharing technology and designs for manufacturing multimeters, clamp meters, insulation testers, etc., in India.
Premchand Goliya steered MECO’s research and development department towards making innovative products and upgrades of existing products with better features at a lower price. The company’s digital multimeters, digital clampmeters and digital panel meters today are among the most popular products, not only in India, but also in over 50 countries around the world. Today, MECO Instruments is OEM to several companies in Germany, Italy, France and the UK.
Keeping pace with India’s growing requirements, MECO has introduced the following products:
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3-phase TRMS Multifunction Power and Energy Meter with MD & THD
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Power and Harmonics Analyser used for Testing, Monitoring, Measuring, Analysing Quality power in Electrical System
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Digital Panel Meters – SMP48 and SMP96 with programmable Digital Ammeter and Voltmeter; A, V, W, VAR, VA and PF Meters in 72x144, 144x144 mm for LT and HT panels
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Powerguard – TRMS for monitoring the power consumption of domestic and industrial loads. Its ideal for production and quality control of various types of electrical appliances like air conditioner, refrigeration, washing machine, etc
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Data logging PC Interface Digital Multimeter with USB Port, TRMS Auto ranging Professional Digital Multimeter 6000/6600 Count
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Digital Insulation Testers – 500V, 1000V, 2500V, 5000V
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Digital Clamp meters with 1200A DC / AC TRMS and 1000A AC TRMS and various sizes, and functions
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Phase Sequence Indicator, Digital Earth Tester and Transformer Turns Ratio Meters
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Vehicle Battery System Meter, Multifunction Automotive Meter and Digital Automotive Multimeter cater to the needs of the automotive sector
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Handheld Thermal Imaging Camera and Laser Distance Meters
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Clamp-On TRMS Power & Energy Meter with Automatic Computation of 1 Phase & 3 Phase Parameters for motors, compressors, HVAC systems, etc., and
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Solar Power Analysers used for Measuring Power in Solar Systems.