Senior Vice President of Strategy & Technology, Belden
Search every verified Hiran Bhadra interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. In a September 2024 podcast, Hiran Bhadra, Senior Vice President of Strategy & Technology at Belden, discussed the company's transition from a product-based to a solution- and platform-oriented organization. He stated that Belden is positioning itself as a "network and data infrastructure company" that will partner for sensing and cloud operations. Bhadra described the company's strategy as involving the orchestration of products, software, and services, and he cited Litmus as playing a role in harmonizing data from diverse industrial protocols. Bhadra argued that the initial assumption that manufacturing processes could be easily replicated in the cloud was incorrect, and that networks have become the most critical infrastructure for digital transformation. He stated that cloud computing became unsustainable due to cost, and that networks are now needed to provide "clean, secure and harmonized data." Bhadra also expressed that the potential for value creation at Belden is "astronomic" and that the company's contribution to global GDP could multiply in the coming years.
“The potential of value creation within Belden is just hugely significant, it's just astronomic. If the world GDP is about 60, 70, 80 trillion dollars, Belden's contribution in global GDP given its core, I think the potential in the next five, six, seven years is to multiply.”
“The assumption was always that if a manufacturing process has a physical self in which things are working, our current technology infrastructure was built to essentially imitate that physical world into a digital world in a cloud environment, but it was not true.”
“The moment this was realized, that we now need to create infrastructure that will essentially reflect the true physics of the manufacturing process in a computing platform, two things happened: one, network became the most important technology infrastructure for success of digital transformation.”
“You cannot have a digital twin successfully running in multiple sites of an industrial platform or multiple buildings in a smart infrastructure unless you thought through the networking infrastructure that binds it.”
“We are the network and data infrastructure company while any requirements on sensing, any requirements on cloud operations we will create partnership.”
“Given the technology OT environment you've got, we will provide the harmonization of that complexity and Litmus plays a very important role in addressing that capability.”
“The sensing technologies are complete proliferation of different kinds of protocols. Our manufacturing technology systems are multiple industrial systems out there. Litmus is about dealing with that complexity and trying to harmonize data which comes from many different protocols.”
“The journey we have now initiated is not only going from being product to a solution organization, it's also about becoming a platform organization that will orchestrate the products, the software and the services that come along with it.”
“The concept of cloud computing became non-sustainable because bigger pipes mean more money, it means more technology infrastructure cost. So now networks have become the only solution to provide clean, secure and harmonized data.”
“The leadership commitment and understanding that there was an opportunity to pivot the business model and create more value globally was what attracted me to Belden.”
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