Amol Karandikar is a Domain Consultant with the Engineering & Industrial Services (EIS) business unit at Tata Consultancy Services (TCS). He is presently working as the Solutions Leader for the Plant Solutions (PSS) group. Karandikar has more than 18 years of cross-industry business consulting and delivery experience in areas such as MES, enterprise integration, SCM, process automation, and manufacturing IT solutions. He has a Bachelor's degree in Instrumentation Engineering from Mumbai University, Mumbai, India, and holds Post Graduate degree in Marketing Management. Karandikar is a Six Sigma Black belt certified professional and also holds the MESA CoC certificate.