The Centre of Excellence in Advanced Manufacturing Technology of IIT Kharagpur is conducting a mega event titled “SATURDAY MANUFACTURING TALKS”.
Join Online Every Saturday, from 8:30 to 9:30 pm IST
https://iitkharagpur.webex.com/iitkharagpur/j.php?MTID=m00ba321c9f62cf6aeb29a33edab1b210
It is planned to be a year-long series of webinars on topics of advanced manufacturing. It will stress the need for an industry-academia collaboration perspective.
The topics include but not limited to :
– Robotics, Automation, and Use of AI and ML in manufacturing
– Simulation in manufacturing
– Specialty materials in manufacturing
– Additive manufacturing
– AI in Supply Chain
– Design of Experiments in engineering
Watch Video for insights of Industry 4.0 related work at Centre of Excellence in Advanced Manufacturing Technology, IIT Kharagpur
A few highlights of the event are as follows:
– Webinars will be delivered by both academicians and industry professionals – this will help in broadening the reach and outlook
– Speakers would be Alumni of IIT Kharagpur in academics and industry (India and Abroad) – this will help in understanding the research being conducted globally on advanced manufacturing
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With an accuracy close to 98%, the solution can measure the dimensional features of the job, and also it can inspect the presence of scratches, dents, etc., in a job. It takes only approximately 12 seconds for the analyses to be complete. The accuracy check and timeliness of the solution have been guaranteed by testing it on different types of jobs. Researchers are working further to reduce the time.
The research group included Prof. Surjya K Pal, Prof. Debashish Chakravarty, research scholar Debasish Mishra, technical staff Pravanjan Nayak, and intern Ayan Banerjee from Jalpaiguri Government Engineering College, who has filed a patent for the system and made it available for MSMEs to license the technology.
Emphasizing on the need for such technologies to achieve the ‘Make in India’ goal, Director Prof. Virendra K Tewari remarked, “While we are aiming to boost indigenous production and exports, our primary goal should be quality output with minimum disruptions. Be it, consumers, in India or abroad, these are two basic needs our industrial sector must address for procuring orders in large volumes. At IIT Kharagpur’s Centre of Excellence in Advanced Manufacturing Technology, we have set our target to bring to the forefront indigenously developed industry 4.0 technologies to support our industrial sector to achieve this goal.”
The innovative technology developed by Prof. Surjya K Pal, professor in-charge at the Centre of Excellence in Advanced Manufacturing Technology in association with TCS will acquire real-time information about the welding process through multiple sensors and enable online control of weld quality by means of cloud-based communication with the friction stir welding machine.
Explaining the new technology, he said, “Our multiple sensor process involves various signal processing and machine learning techniques to predict the ultimate tensile strength of the weld joint is fabricated. This technology is connected with a vast experimental knowledge base to conform to a standard system and prediction of the weld joint strength. Any defect identified during the monitoring procedure is corrected in real-time by sending modified parameters to the machine thus ensuring the standardized quality of the process.”
The Centre of Excellence in Advanced Manufacturing Technology was set up through the support of the Department of Heavy Industry of the Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises, Government of India, along with a consortium of top six industry members with the aim to stimulate the innovation in advanced manufacturing for boosting the capital goods sector. Tata Consultancy Services is a key industry partner at the Centre.
The Centre was set up at IIT Kharagpur in November 2017 by the Department of Heavy Industries (DHI) under the Ministry of Heavy Industries and Public Enterprises, Govt. of India, in November 2017 to strengthen the country’s capital goods sector through a constant upgradation of manufacturing technology and technology transfer to industry, particularly to MSMEs. Since then, the Centre has initiated the setting up of an Industrial Research and Innovation Unit for MSMEs and an Innovation Lab that houses several state-of-the-art facilities critical to the R&D being undertaken at the Centre. The 2nd review meeting held recently at IIT Kharagpur and attended by officials of DHI as well as the partner industries, also revealed that the projects were on the right track.
That may well be so. All the projects at the Centre have been undertaken in partnership with the industry members of the consortium that works with the Centre. In one of the projects with TATA Steel, the Centre is developing a multi-sensor integrated robotic system for hazardous jobs in the manufacturing industry. In another project with HEC, Ranchi, the Centre is trying to evolve an advanced technique that will help HEC produce more sophisticated, clean, defect free, and tough welds. The project with TATA Sons aims at building a framework for the implementation of IoT in supply chain management, in manufacturing operating efficiency, in predictive maintenance, and in inventory optimization that will help heavy industrial assembly see a step increase in productivity by just knowing where the component parts are when they are needed.
The DHI Centre is driving research along the four areas critical to the manufacturing industry in the country – Specialty materials, Design and automation, Additive manufacturing, and Digital manufacturing & Industrial IoT. The projects are based on these verticals. Both DHI and the industry partners of the Centre are happy with the progress of the projects. At the 2nd review meeting, Mr Sanjay Chavre of DHI stated, “This Centre is particularly aimed at cutting edge technologies such as additive manufacturing, IoT and others.” He thus pressed for their regular review. Dr. Tanushyam Chattopadhyay of TCS, which is also in the consortium, commented, “This centre is a win-win situation for both academia as well as the industry partners.”
Prof. Surjya K. Pal, Professor in charge of the Centre, said, “We are also about to launch short term courses on CNC training, Composite 4.0, Advanced welding techniques, Industry 4.0 and Additive manufacturing. These training programs/short-term courses will have lecture sessions delivered by academic and industry personnel.”