About Mayur
Engineer, entrepreneur and PhD scholar who has spent more time on factory floors than in boardrooms, and prefers it that way.
I'm Mayur Makwana: an engineer by training, an entrepreneur by choice, and a Luhar by birth. I build software, hiring and AI tools for the people who make things.
Why manufacturing
My family are Luhars, ironsmiths, children of Vishwakarma. Making things is in the bloodline. I didn't pick up the hammer, but I've spent my career around people who still do, and I think that is why plant owners and shopfloor supervisors talk to me differently than they talk to software vendors. I speak their language because I grew up with it.
How I work
I start on the shopfloor, not in the meeting room. An ERP that works for manufacturing has to survive the shopfloor: patchy connectivity, operators who don't want another screen, job cards that change mid-shift, and owners who want the numbers by evening. I design for those realities first, and I measure the work by whether operators actually use it.
What I believe
Technology should make a business run better and grow faster. Innovation, operational efficiency and digital transformation are for every business, not only the large ones, and the smallest fabrication unit deserves systems as good as the best plants in the world.
Why I write
Work has given me a front-row seat to how geopolitics, trade policy and technology land on real factories. This site is where I think out loud about those things: current affairs, technology, geopolitics, India, and the craft of building businesses.
Memberships and credentials
Memberships
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Charter Member TiE, The Indus Entrepreneurs
Jul 2026 – present A global network of entrepreneurs fostering entrepreneurship through mentoring, networking and education.
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Member BNI, Business Network International
Nov 2023 – present The business referral network, meeting every week with one member from each profession.
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Member GCCI, Gujarat Chamber of Commerce and Industry
Apr 2016 – present Gujarat’s apex chamber of trade and industry.
Boards and associations
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Member, Board of Studies (BoS) Shanti Business School, Ahmedabad
Apr 2026 – present, PGDM programmes Bringing industry insight into the PGDM curriculum, so that what students learn keeps pace with business and marketing: digital transformation, analytics and AI adoption.
Certifications
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ISMS Lead Auditor Bureau Veritas
Issued Apr 2014, Credential ID IS/14/IN/2228 Information security management systems (ISO/IEC 27001).
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QMS Lead Auditor Bureau Veritas
Issued Jun 2011, Credential ID LA2/11/IN/35793 Quality management systems (ISO 9001).
Education
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PR Optimizing Manufacturing Performance Through ERP Systems PhD research Ongoing
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MBA, Operations Manipal University Jaipur
Oct 2022 – Oct 2024, Grade: 8.37 Research project: evaluating the impact of ERP software implementation in a machine manufacturing organisation.
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Diploma in Business Management The ICFAI University, Tripura
2008 – 2010, Grade: Distinction
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Bachelor of Engineering, Information Technology Hemchandracharya North Gujarat University
2004 – 2008, Grade: Distinction
Vision
A day when every Indian manufacturer, however small, runs on systems as good as the best plants in the world.
Mission
Build software, hiring and AI tools that start from the shopfloor, and keep them simple enough that operators actually use them.
Values
Shopfloor first
Every system I build starts where the work happens, with the operator and the machine.
Honest numbers
Good decisions need data people trust. A hard truth beats a pretty report.
Craft
Like a smith's hammer, every strike has to land in the right place. Details matter.
Long relationships
Most of my clients became partners. I build for the next twenty years, not the next quarter.
About the mark
Two letter Ms, for Mayur and Makwana, drawn as two anvils standing back to back. The anvil is my family's trade: the Luhars have worked iron for generations.
Between them stands a pen nib, because the other half of my work is writing, and at its centre sits a red tilak: the blessing before any work begins, glowing like the heat of the forge.