If India wishes to be a manufacturing hub for the world, then transition to industry 4.0 is imperative.
Today while quite some industry participants are transitioning into industry 4.0. However, numerous are holding back. Industry 4.0 confluence of physical systems and cyber systems. To enable wide-scale adoption of Industry 4.0, there are several opportunities that India can leverage. The government of India has also launched the National Mission on Cyber Physical Systems. This involves advancement in technology - both hardware and software - and making them work together at a system level.
What are the opportunities that enable wide scale adoption of industry 4.0 is what we will look into in this panel.
Speakers
Prof. Asim Tewari
IIT Bombay
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Prof. Asim Tewari
Asim Tewari is G.K. Devarajulu Chair Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai. Prior to this, he was a staff researcher at General Motors, Global R&D center in Bangalore. He graduated with a B. Tech degree from IIT Kanpur followed by MS and Ph.D. from Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA. After his doctorate, he was briefly with the National Aerospace Laboratories, Bangalore. Subsequently, he joined IIT Kanpur, where he served as an assistant professor before joining General Motors Global R&D center in Bangalore.
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Mahendra Pratap
Co-Founder
HCL
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Mahendra Pratap
I am a 1972 graduate in Electrical Engineering from IIT Kanpur. Started my career with DCM Data Products and was one of the 8 founders led by Shiv Nadar who Promoted HCL in 1976. We are probably the first group to come out with successful commercial products based on microprocessors.
Target objective as understood by the team was defined by Dr Vinay Bharat Ram, Executive Director, DCM Data Products, was to come out a product equivalent of HP9820, as Desktop Scientific & Statistical Programmable. We had to research algorithms, select the microprocessor to be used, design & create development systems to design and develop to realise the end commercial Products Moscal 1101(DCMDP) and Micro 2200 (HCL).
Next, in HCL we went on to design a data entry m/c, internally named KTMF and a Microcomputer HCL 8C. A combination of KTMF and HCL 8C with Standard 7 or 9 Track Magnetic Tape attachment replaced the Computer Cards, then used to as a medium to feed data to mainframe computers by magnetic media, reducing data entry mistakes and elapsed time from months to a week. Winning point of HCL over the competition was Power Save Automatic Restart (PSAR) feature in 1970s. Microsoft introduced this feature in MS Windows later in 1990s These products were designed to work all over India in diverse environments of dust, temperature, and humidity.
HCL was started by a group of professionals all from DCM Data Products in the age group of less than 30 years, without any large business house backing. Today it is a $11 billion company. This involved design development of Hardware, Operating System, Interpreters, compilers, and other application softwares. Solved lots of field problems. Innovated processes, tools, test jigs, spare parts for some of the imported peripherals for providing support to our customers.
Second, developed an Award-winning solution iMFAST, comprising of in-house designed h/w & s/w for enabling Financial Inclusion in 2007. Solution received Gold Medal from Lockheed Martin-FICCI-DST India Innovation Growth Program in July 2007 and Most Innovative application in vertical domain of GSM by GSMA at MACAU in November 2007. FI solution based on iMFAST, was adopted by over 20 Indian banks in 2008. Was used for implementation of NREGS scheme in Bihar. UIDAI defined specifications of MicroATM based on iMFAST in 2009- 10. MicroATMs today are used in payment, banking, and implementation of quite a few e-Governance applications. Unfortunately, MicroATMs are all being imported from China today.
I retired from my active work life 2018. However, pondering over how to keep myself active and create value, I started putting my thoughts together, on what India as a country should do to develop The Electronics Industry and attain Atmanirbharta in Electronics and currently working on that.
Dr. Kaushik Saha
Professor
IIT Delhi
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Dr. Kaushik Saha
Dr. Kaushik Saha joined STMicroelectronics Ltd in 1996, after having obtained his B.Tech, M.Tech. and Ph.D. degrees from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi. He worked as a designer of semiconductor memories, followed by involvement in the design of consumer electronics systems around the devices designed and fabricated by the company. Till 2013, he was Principal Member Technical Staff in the Advanced Systems Technologies group of STMicroelectronicsand and worked on R&D of future generations of devices and systems for future markets of tomorrow, after which he joined Samsung Electronics.
Sunsequently, he was Chief Technical Officer, Samsung R&D Institute India, Delhi with teams engaged in embedded Advanced R&D projects aimed towards developing software solutions, both embedded and cloud based, for futuristic features on Samsung Smart TVs.
At present, he is Professor of Electrical Engineering in the Indian Institute of Technology – Delhi, and engaged in research on microelectronics, VLSI design and embedded systems. His research interests are in the areas of Advanced Processor Architectures, Parallel Algorithms & Architectures for Digital Signal and Image Processing and Analysis and low power, low voltage SoC design, subjects in which he holds various patents and has extensive publications.
Mr. Saroop Chand
Director, Adroitec Information Systems (P) Limited
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Mr. Saroop Chand
Mr. Saroop Chand, is the Director at Adroitec Information Systems (P) Limited. Experienced Business Partner with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry. Skilled in Negotiation, Product Lifecycle Management, Customer Relationship Management (CRM), Go-to-market Strategy, and Management. Strong consulting professional with a MBA focused in Marketing & Finance from Faculty of Management Studies - University of Delhi.
Moderator
Anuj Grover
Associate Professor, IIIT-Delhi
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Anuj Grover
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