FMTTI Technical Specification Format Guide
The specification sheet is not a formality
Of everything in an FMTTI test application, the technical specification sheet is the one document we tell clients to get right before they touch anything else. It's not a cover page — it's the description the institute tests against. Every subsequent step, from the declaration of performance characteristics through to the final report, refers back to it.
And for a growing list of categories, you can't just write your own version. The institute publishes a prescribed format, and that's the one you're expected to use.
Categories with a published format
As things stand, a prescribed specification format exists for:
- Power weeder / rotary weeder
- Brush cutter
- Rice transplanter
- Cultivator (tractor drawn)
- M.B. plough
- Post-hole digger (tractor operated)
- Rotavator
- Chaff cutter machines
- Disc harrow (animal drawn)
- Disc plough (tractor drawn)
- Auto seed drill (tractor drawn)
- Thresher
- Self-propelled reaper
- Power-tiller mounted reaper
- Mobile shredder
- Paddy weeder
- Reaper, tractor front mounted
- Square baler
- Terracer blade
- Self-propelled platform for tree maintenance
- Disc puddler cage wheels
- Trailer, 3 tonne & 5 tonne
- Knapsack sprayer — battery / hand operated, and battery-operated portable sprayers
- HTP engine-operated sprayer / engine-operated knapsack sprayer
- Boom sprayer — self-propelled / tractor operated
- Tractor-operated sprayer The list isn't static. The trailer format and all four sprayer formats were added during 2026, alongside the mobile shredder, paddy weeder, front-mounted reaper, square baler, terracer blade, tree-maintenance platform and disc puddler cage wheels. That's a reasonable pattern to expect going forward too — as more categories come through testing in volume, the institute tends to formalise a dedicated sheet for them.
If your category isn't on the list
A machine that doesn't have its own published format isn't stuck. It goes in on the institute's general technical specification requirement instead — the same core information (dimensions, materials, capacities, power source, performance claims) presented in a standard rather than category-specific layout.
The one thing we'd flag: which format applies is worth confirming with your target institute before you file, not after. A near-miss category — say, something adjacent to a listed implement but not identical to it — is exactly where manufacturers guess wrong, and a guess in the wrong direction means resubmitting.
Where the spec sheet sits in the full document set
The specification sheet is one line in a longer checklist, and every line on that checklist carries the same weight:
| Document | Sets required |
|---|---|
| Application form, duly filled up | 3 |
| Detailed technical specification in the institute's format, where one exists | 3 |
| Declaration of selected performance characteristics (per IS 13539:2008) | 3 |
| Operator's manual | 3 |
| Service manual | 3 |
| Parts catalogue | 3 |
| Fast-moving parts (tynes, shares, bolts, bearings, seals etc.) | 1 |
| Other literature, if any | 1 |
| Photographs of the machine | 2 |
| Drawing / isometric view | 2 |
| CMVR certificate, valid on date of application (power tillers only) | 1 |
| Engine emission certificate, valid on date of application (power tillers only) | 1 |
| Test-fee payment receipt | 1 |
Why completeness decides everything
This is the part worth taking seriously: an application missing any of the above is summarily rejected. It doesn't sit in a queue waiting for you to send the missing piece — it's returned, and you start again. That's a stated rule, not an occasional inconvenience, so the practical move is to treat the specification sheet and the rest of this list as one package, checked complete before it's submitted rather than after.
This is exactly the kind of thing we help manufacturers get right before filing — confirming which specification format applies to a given category, checking the document set is complete in the right number of sets, and coordinating with the institute on anything that isn't clear-cut. We guide and liaise on the process; the testing itself is always carried out by FMTTI's own engineers, at the institute.
Frequently asked questions
- No. A published format exists for a specific set of categories — including power weeders, cultivators, rotavators, threshers, reapers, balers, trailers and several sprayer types — and that list was recently expanded during 2026. If your category isn't on it, you submit on the institute's general technical specification requirement instead, so confirm which applies with your target institute before filing.
- It's summarily rejected. The application form, specification sheet, declaration of performance characteristics, manuals, parts catalogue, photographs, drawings and fee receipt are all required together, in the specified number of sets — the application isn't held pending a missing document, it's returned.
- Three sets, along with three sets of the application form and the declaration of performance characteristics. Photographs and drawings require two sets each, and most of the remaining supporting documents require one set.