Omkar Engineering

Our shop is Shop No. 2 in Mihir Apartment, right over in Udhyam Nagar. If you know where Indira Gandhi Udhyan is, we are basically right across from there in Pimpri. It’s an industrial sort of area, so there’s always the sound of trucks and machines in the background. Omkar Engineering isn't a huge operation with hundreds of people. It’s just a small shop where we handle the engineering bits that local businesses need. We’ve got some lathes and drills and the usual mess of metal shavings on the floor by the end of the day. The apartment building above us is quiet enough, but our shop can get a bit noisy when we are in the middle of a big project. We usually keep the front door open to get some air in, especially when it’s hot outside. You can see the trees in the park across the street, which is a nice break from looking at steel and grease all day. We’ve been here for a while and most of the other shop owners nearby are friends. We borrow tools from each other or help out when someone’s short-handed. It’s a basic way of working, without anything fancy or corporate. We don't have a big office staff, so if the phone rings, one of us just wipes the grease off our hands to answer it. We just try to do a decent job on whatever comes across the workbench today and hope the machines stay running.