Alpha Engineering Instruments

At Alpha Engineering Instruments, we spend our days looking at tiny details and making sure tools work like they should. We’re out in Sunkadakatte, right near Krishi Irrigation Pvt Ltd. It’s a bit of a drive from the city center, but it’s where we’ve set up our little workspace. The shop is full of gauges, meters, and all sorts of measuring things that most people wouldn't recognize. It’s not the kind of place that looks pretty, but it’s functional for the work we do. We have workbenches covered in tools and parts that we’re currently trying to fix or calibrate. Usually, it’s just a couple of us here, hunched over the equipment with our glasses on. People bring in instruments that are slightly off, and we have to spend time figuring out why. It takes a lot of patience and steady hands. Sometimes a customer comes in and we end up talking for a long time about how things used to be built better. We don’t really do any big advertising or anything like that. Most people find us because someone else told them we know what we’re doing with these tools. The area around Sunkadakatte is always under some kind of road work, so getting here can be a bit of a chore some days. We keep a pot of tea going most of the afternoon. It’s quiet work for the most part, unless we’re testing a bigger piece of equipment. We just focus.