Depth bar: Partner / ally profile. Not a buyer; dossier maps the connection, his firm and the client base he can open. [~] = estimate, [!] = unverified.

1. Company overview & snapshot

1.0 The connection — Nanda Kumar Ramakrishnan

• Current title: Founder, PQSI (“Quality4.0 Implementation”), Chennai, since April 1999 (26+ years).
• Credentials (pqsitech.com/about): B.Tech Mechanical, College of Engineering Trivandrum; MBA (gold medallist), IIM Tiruchirappalli; Master Black Belt, Indian Statistical Institute Bengaluru; Ministry of Corporate Affairs empanelled independent director; 30+ years process-excellence consulting; 20+ years digital-transformation projects; 900+ programmes on SPC, MSA, Lean Six Sigma, calibration, DOE; 250+ consulting projects in auto, FMCG, healthcare, pharma, textiles.
• Authority: owner of PQSI. Full authority over partnerships; zero authority over any client’s power bill.
• Connection status: 1st-degree.
• How to use him: co-sell partner and referral source into Tamil Nadu auto Tier-1 machine shops and foundries. Secondary: speaking or judging slot at PQSI Quality 4.0 events.
• Style signal: his posts repeat “People first, Process second, Technology third” and complain about short-lived shop-floor digital pilots. Pitch Stamped as the long-lived, owner-assigned kind, not another dashboard.

1.1 Legal identity & corporate structure

• PQSI: sole proprietorship of Ramakrishnan Nanda Kumar. GSTIN 33ACYPN1460H1ZD (registered 1 Jul 2017). Principal place of business 164C-F1, VGP Nagar, Mogappair West, Chennai 600037.
• Related companies (QuickCompany): Professional Quality Management Development Centre Pvt Ltd (director 18+ yrs), PQ Lease Solutions Pvt Ltd (director ~8 yrs), PQSI Digital Pvt Ltd (past director). DIN 01689679 shows status “Deactivated / DIN surrendered” [!], so those directorships may have ended.
• Brand names: PQSI, PQSITECH, Quality4.0.

1.2 What they do & where money comes from

Four verticals: business-excellence consulting; software for quality improvement (PQ Systems SQCpack/GAGEpack resale for India, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh); quality process outsourcing; management development programmes. Own products built with Coimbatore tech partner Dr Selvakumar S G: IDMS / Q4Inspect (web-based inspection data management with IoT dial indicators from Microtech) and IDS Gage (IoT air gauging feeding online SPC). Runs the annual PQSI Quality 4.0 Awards (2026 ceremony 14 Oct, Chennai; on-site Gemba assessments across five dimensions, 75/100 to qualify) and QCC/QIT conventions.

1.2a Scale, MSME status & trade

Revenue table

Working revenue range: ₹1–5 Cr/yr [~] based on headcount, reseller margin and consulting load. Confidence: low.

1.3 Offices & footprint

Chennai office (Mogappair West). Product development partner in Coimbatore. US presence via Chester Jacobs (Senior President). No plant. Pilot site would be a client plant.

1.4 Leadership & CRM map — partner and referral targets

Decision path: Nanda agrees to co-sell → picks two client plants → client plant head (production) sponsors → maintenance/utilities head runs the Rx → client MD signs 60-Day Proof. PQSI gets a referral fee or joint scope.

1.5 Recent news & timing

• 14 Oct 2026: PQSI Quality 4.0 Grand Award ceremony, Chennai. Best near-term moment to meet nominees and Nanda in person.
• 13 Aug 2026: post on Rane’s five-year Quality 4.0 journey.
• Sept 2026: Gemba assessments at TN plants for the awards.

2. Energy profile

DISCOM / supply: DISCOM: not applicable — no plant (nearest relevant: TANGEDCO, now TNPDCL, for his Chennai and Pudukottai auto Tier-1 client plants).

2.1 Bill band

• PQSI office: N/A (small commercial connection).
• Typical client (auto machining / valve plant in TN): ₹20–80 lakh/month [~] per plant; multi-plant groups like Rane exceed ₹30L at the group level.

2.2–2.3 Generation / EnMS

Clients’ ISO 50001 status unknown. TN plants often buy wind/solar via open access or group captive, so pitch must focus on demand charges and process waste, not tariff arbitrage.

2.4 Likely ₹ leak categories at PQSI clients

Compressed air (air gauging, pneumatics), CNC idle between parts, induction hardening, furnace hold at foundries, TANGEDCO peak-hour surcharge. The co-sell idea: tie SPC drift and scrap to kWh, so a plant sees ₹ lost per bad part.

3. Operations, equipment & digital stack

3.1 PQSI’s technology at client sites

IoT dial indicators (Microtech) and IoT air gauging (IDS Gage) → Q4Inspect/IDMS web app on client LAN → SQCpack for SPC per AIAG. Paperless first-part approval and patrol inspection.

3.1a Machine inventory at clients

3.3 Integration angle

PQSI already places data on client servers via LAN. A shared site could pair part-count and reject data from Q4Inspect with Stamped’s meter data, read-only, no new hardware.

4. Stamped Energy fit analysis

4.1 ICP scorecard (as partner)

4.2 Fit score rationale

4/10 as partner. Real client trust and a matching philosophy, but small firm, South India focus, and no proven energy channel yet.

4.3 Wedge

The strongest wedge is: a joint “quality + energy per good part” offer to two of PQSI’s existing online-SPC plants (Rane Engine Valve Pudukottai first), with Stamped’s 60-Day Proof as the energy half and PQSI’s data as the part-count half.

4.4 Objections

“My clients’ priority is quality, not energy” → kWh per good part is a quality metric too. “Referral economics” → offer a clear referral fee or joint scope. “We tried digital tools that died” → Stamped assigns actions to named owners on WhatsApp and tracks closure.

4.5 Pilot design

Rane Engine Valve, Pudukottai: one machining hall meter + compressor feeder; overlay part counts from Q4Inspect; 60 days; success = verified ₹ saving and a ₹/good-part number the plant head accepts.

4.6 Concern scores (typical PQSI client plant)

4.7 Pitch sketches

1. Nanda (partner): “Your data says when a process drifts; ours says what it costs. Two plants, joint pitch, shared upside.”
2. Client plant head: ”₹ per good part, from data you already collect plus your meters. No new hardware.”
3. Client maintenance: “Compressor and idle-machine fixes, assigned on WhatsApp, verified with evidence.”

5. Before you reach out

5.1 Discovery checklist

• Would Nanda prefer referral fees, joint scope, or reselling?
• Which two client plants have the highest power bills and the strongest plant-head relationship?
• Any North India clients (Haryana/Uttarakhand auto belts)?
• Does Q4Inspect expose part counts via export or API?
• Can Stamped attend or present at the 14 Oct awards?
• Does PQSI already sell anything energy-related (conflict check)?
• Status of his private companies (DIN shows surrendered)
• Which PQ Systems customers in India are foundries/forges?

5.2 Do not lead with

• Do not lead with a sales pitch to PQSI as a buyer
• Don’t lead with AI or dashboards; he is openly sceptical of short-lived digital tools
• Don’t position Stamped as a quality or SPC tool (overlap would make him defensive)

5.3 Opening hooks

“Five years of online SPC at Rane is rare. I’d like to add the power bill to that story.”

6. Risks, flags, controversies & sources

6.1 Integrity / controversy / regulatory

• Main risk: partner channel is small and South-India-weighted, so referrals may be slow and outside Stamped’s North India focus.
• DIN 01689679 listed as deactivated/surrendered on QuickCompany; directorships in PQ Lease Solutions and Professional Quality Management Development Centre may be stale. Not a red flag by itself; confirm.
• No lawsuits or complaints found. Searched: “PQSI Chennai complaint”, “Nanda Kumar Ramakrishnan PQSI fraud”, “PQSITECH”. None found.

6.2 Data quality flags

• No revenue data; estimate only.
• Client list mostly from his own LinkedIn posts (self-reported).
• Email pattern unknown; admin@ is verified.

6.3 Sources consulted

• https://linkedin.com/in/nanda-spc
• https://www.pqsitech.com/about
• https://linkedin.com/company/nanda-pqsi
• https://piceapp.com/gst-number-search/pqsi-33acypn1460h1zd/
• https://www.quickcompany.in/directors/01689679-ramakrishnan-nanda-kumar
• https://www.linkedin.com/posts/nanda-spc_topmanagement-middlemanagement-frontlineexecutives-activity-7482674221471424512-wuFY
• https://www.linkedin.com/posts/nanda-spc_topmanagement-seniorleadership-boardmembers-activity-7483527939058270209-BGPW
• https://www.linkedin.com/posts/nanda-spc_quality4-onlinespc-digitalization-activity-7493614680486371329-l5ug
• https://www.linkedin.com/posts/nanda-spc_pudukottai-inspectiondatamanagementsystem-activity-7293575374779600896-Ibm-
• https://www.linkedin.com/posts/nanda-spc_idms-inspection-data-management-system-activity-6795960100545789952-SFXl
• https://www.linkedin.com/posts/nanda-spc_automotivemanufacturing-iot-smartfactory-activity-7478390160997617665-op49
• https://www.linkedin.com/posts/nanda-spc_gemba-quality4-chennai-activity-7510347589666500608-Yh51