To create a world where intelligent automation and digitalization enable sustainable, efficient, and seamlessly connected manufacturing ecosystems.
About KNEO Automation
The partner behind the world's smartest factories.
Leading provider of PLC engineering, SCADA systems and complete turnkey automation solutions — engineering industrial automation and Industry 4.0 systems since 2003, across 30+ countries.
ISO 9001:2015 Certified
Operating since 2003
Pune · Chennai · Global
Why we exist
Automation that makes manufacturing sustainable, not just faster.
KNEO Automation has operated since 2003, delivering industrial automation solutions for over two decades. What began as a controls engineering practice now spans robotics, MES, IIoT and full digital transformation programmes for manufacturers on four continents.
Our Vision
Our Mission
Deploying smart automation and digital solutions that enhance efficiency, reduce waste, and accelerate the transition toward sustainable, future-ready operations.
What we believe
The KNEO Manifesto
01
Everything under one roof
Automation and Industry 4.0 expertise in a single partner — from electrical design to PLC code to cloud dashboards. No handoffs lost between vendors.
02
Visibility before everything
After two decades inside manufacturing facilities, one pattern repeats: visibility is always the first problem to solve. We instrument before we optimise.
03
Prove it virtually, then build it
Collisions, sequence faults and logic errors belong in a digital twin — not on your shop floor during a production window.
04
Brand-agnostic by principle
Siemens, Rockwell, Beckhoff, Mitsubishi, Delta, KUKA, FANUC, ABB, Yaskawa. We speak the language of your installed base rather than selling you a new one.
05
The project does not end at handover
Ongoing support, maintenance, troubleshooting, software updates and system enhancements. When you need us, our team is responsive, accessible and ready to help.
Under One Roof
Automation & Industry 4.0 expertise in a single partner — electrical design, controls software and cloud platforms.
Scalable Teams
Scale engineering capacity up or down as your project demands — without hiring overhead.
Legacy Upgrades
Modernize existing systems with minimal downtime — retrofitting, re-tooling and SCADA integration.
24+
Years of Experience
30+
Countries Served
400+
Projects Delivered
8+
Years in Industry 4.0
Our values
Four principles
Four principles
that shape our work.
They govern how we hire, how we scope projects and how we behave when a commissioning window gets difficult.
Adaptability
Embracing technological change and remaining agile as platforms, standards and customer expectations evolve.
Client Success
Prioritising customer achievements and holding ourselves to a simple standard: not just meeting expectations, but exceeding them.
Growth
Fostering continuous professional and personal development — education treated as lifelong, not a one-off induction.
Passion
Driven by genuine enthusiasm for what technology can do to manufacturing when it is applied properly.
Leadership
The people accountable for your project.
Mr. Raju Kulkarni
Director & Co-Founder
Mr. N. Krishnamurthy
Director & Co-Founder
Mr. Biswajit Raysingh
Sr. Manager — Business Development
Standards & compliance
Engineered to recognised norms.
Our internal PLC & HMI programming guidelines are aligned to international norms, so the code we hand over is maintainable by your team — or anyone else's.
- ISO 9001:2015 Quality Management
- IEC 61131-3 programming languages
- IEC 81346-1 designation structures
- CE, UL, IEC & OSHA design compliance
- Safety circuit design to SIL / PL levels
- AIAG-VDA aligned quality workflows
- AS9102 / VDA reporting formats
- FDS, SDS and test-script documentation
Worked with
Manufacturers & integrators
Selected organisations for whom KNEO has delivered automation, controls or Industry 4.0 engineering.
EmersonKUKAOerlikon
JBM GroupAlplaKraft Heinz
Delphi TVSFaurecia
Global footprint
Two engineering centres, worldwide delivery
Headquarters in Warje, Pune with a second engineering office in Chennai. Commissioning teams deploy to customer factories across 30+ countries — when you need engineers at your customer's plant, we fly.
Looking for something else?
Work with us
Let's build your smart factory.
Tell us what your line needs to do. We will tell you exactly how we would engineer it.