As per the press release, this Smart Manufacturing and Digital Transformation Centre is established in joint collaboration with the Advanced Manufacturing Technology Development Centre which is actually a Centre of excellence, MESA International which is a global non-profit present in over 40 countries and Cantier Systems, which is a leading provider of Next Generation Manufacturing Execution System for Industry 4.0
“SMDTC will lead in provisioning a Smart Manufacturing Model Factory / Experience Centre and also support Collaborative Research / Innovation for Industry 4.0 in Process Intelligence, Robotics and Machining Dynamics Control Automation.” said Professor N.Ramesh Babu, Faculty, Department of Mechanical Engineering,
IIT Madras and Secretary, AMDTC, IIT Madras.
According to the press release, the Smart Manufacturing and Digital Transformation Centre was inaugurated on July 13, 2022 by Dr.N Chandrasekaran, Chairman, Tata Sons with all the other members of IIT Madras, MESA and Cantier Systems present.
This centre will have a huge focus on Education and Community Interaction for capacity building, maturity assessment and others. The information has been taken from the press release.