Source: thehindubusinessline.com<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Advanced Manufacturing Technology Development Centre (AMTDC), an\n industry-academia collaboration set up at IIT Research Park with \nsupport from Department of Heavy Industries, is turning out to be a \nmajor boon for the manufacturing industry in indigenisation and \ncommitting strongly to the Centre\u2019s Make in India programme. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
With\n the help of the AMTDC, Indian companies are trying to indeginise \nmanufacturing capabilities by designing machines that are on par with, \nor even better than, imported ones. The companies include Jyoti CNC \nAutomation (Rajkot); Micromatic Grinding Technologies (Ghaziabad); \nChennai Metco (Chennai); ACE Designers (Bengaluru); MTAB Engineers \n(Chennai), and Interface Design Associates (Thane).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Indian \nmanufacturing industry suffers from a lack of a strong R&D base to \nadvance with the latest technologies that will enable it to compete with\n the best in the world. This has resulted in a loss of nearly 70 per \ncent of domestic market for machine tools to foreign companies, said N \nRamesh Babu, Head of Department of Mechanical Engineering at IIT-Madras \nand faculty in-charge of AMTDC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The AMTDC is a perfect example of academia, industry and government collaboration towards building Make in India products in the capital goods sector, which was so far thought of as a difficult task in the Indian scenario, he told BusinessLine<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n AMTDC is a first of its kind in India that provides background \nR&D support to Indian machine tool manufacturers, and equips the \nindustry with the latest technology, developed through indigenous \nresearch. Thereafter it is turned into a commercially viable product. <\/p>\n\n\n\n It\n has already developed technologies such as next generation \nhigh-precision grinding machine and diagnostic tool for grinding \nprocess. It has transferred technologies to industrial partners and \ngained knowledge, expertise and confidence in carrying out innovative \nprojects viable for commercialisation, he said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n The AMTDC, which has so far received nearly \u20b956\n crore in funding from the government and industry, is currently \ndeveloping prototypes for 11 industries across several sectors \u2013 \naerospace, nuclear, machine tool, automotive and engineering, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n NK\n Dhand, Chairman, Micromatic Grinding Technologies, said it is important\n that many of the technologies being developed at AMTDC are currently \nnot allowed to be imported from countries such as the US, Germany and \nJapan because of their strategic dual-use nature. <\/p>\n\n\n\n AMTDC has great\n significance because it is important to create and nurture a \nsustainable ecosystem for R&D in applied engineering and \nmanufacturing. This will help lead in advanced manufacturing \ntechnologies by Indian scientists and engineers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Endorsing this \nview, S Sairaman, Technical Director, MTAB Engineers Pvt Ltd, said the \ncompany is collaborating with IIT-Madras to indigenously develop \nindustrial articulated robots of 6-10 kg payload capacity and \nmicro-machining technology. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Source: thehindubusinessline.com The Advanced Manufacturing Technology Development Centre (AMTDC), an industry-academia collaboration set up at IIT Research Park with support…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":440,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[350],"tags":[588,580,587,578,570,579],"class_list":["post-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iit","tag-access","tag-amtdc","tag-centre","tag-development","tag-iit","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gurukulgalaxy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gurukulgalaxy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gurukulgalaxy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gurukulgalaxy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gurukulgalaxy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/gurukulgalaxy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":444,"href":"https:\/\/gurukulgalaxy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions\/444"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gurukulgalaxy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gurukulgalaxy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gurukulgalaxy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gurukulgalaxy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}