Mumbai, Sept. 4 -- Step inside Bharat Forge's sprawling Pune headquarters, and it doesn't feel like the factory floor of an old-line forging company. The clang of presses shaping red-hot steel still echoes, but increasingly it is drowned out by the buzz of servers, the glow of digital dashboards, and young engineers clustered around AI terminals.

On a wall-sized screen, live data streams in from plants in Germany and the United States. Every press, every induction furnace, every machine has a digital twin.

"We can see in real time what's happening in any of our plants worldwide," says Baba Kalyani, chairman and managing director (CMD), gesturing at the display. "If a press in our US plant has a problem, engineers here in Pune can correc...