Specialty Materials

The centre aims to become a global leader in niche materials and their processing. Looking at the manufacturing sector, the centre aims to cover corrosion-resistant, wear-resistant, light-weight metallic materials, composites, electronic materials, biomaterials, glass and ceramics. The CoE along with the consortium of industries works together on development of such materials for different applications in the capital goods sector.

Projects

• Non-metallic inclusions (NMI) and its control, new steel products through energy efficient EAF
• Designing a synthetic slag for inclusion control of LCAK structural steel
• Manufacturing of bimetallic Ti-Al alloy structure by CMT-WAAM

Industry/Academic Partners

Infrastructure

• Torsional fatigue testing facility
• High resolution FESEM with real time in-flight beam tracing configured with automated steel cleanliness analysis tool
• Bench top XRD machine with phase, strain and size identification of crystalline and lattice parameter refinement

Robotics & Automation

The center aims to address the infusion of modern technologies in the design and manufacturing of components, its fabrication and automation. The center aims to bring about transformational changes in the design of machines and industrial processes in some areas.

Projects

• Multi-sensor integrated robotic system for hazardous jobs in manufacturing industry
• Cobot based vision analytics for quality inspection in automobile process line
• Technical Design requirement for Robotic Machine for cooking (Upcoming)

Industry Partners

Infrastructure

• Industrial robot with offline programming and simulation software
• Sensors of ultrasonic range
• Image processing workstations

Additive Manufacturing

Additive manufacturing has huge potential to completely transform the landscape of manufacturing in some areas. Today manufacturers from diverse domains are exploring 3-D printing as a technology for complementing their existing and conventional processes for prototyping and manufacturing. Additive manufacturing promises to reduce material waste, inventory and different types of assembly operations. Research under this thrust area will be carried out for prototyping different forging components of automobile, steel sector, turbine blades etc.

Projects

• Exploring solutions for various technological challenges in metal additive manufacturing technology and sharing the relevant know how with the Indian heavy engineering industries
• Selection of raw materials for additive manufacturing applications in relation to the design requirements
• Life cycle analysis of additive manufacturing process for different materials

Industry Partners

Infrastructure

• High resolution blue light 3D scanner
• High speed camera
• 3D modeling, Reverse engineering, and Life cycle analysis software
• Rapid prototyping preprocessor

Industry 4.0

Digital technologies have become ubiquitous in advanced manufacturing. Not only are most industrial processes digitally monitored today, most products from heavy engineering industries have built in telematics and other forms of digital monitoring capabilities. It is widely believed that digital interventions will transform the way that machines will be deployed, operated, monitored, and serviced in the future. IIoT and data analytics are expected to have pivotal role in enabling the vision of smart machines and intelligent cooperation between multiple machines. This also has potential for saving resources thereby promoting green practices.

Projects

• Remote Monitoring and Real Time Control of Defects in Friction Stir Welding Process and Preventive Health Monitoring of Friction Stir Welding Machine
• Digital manufacturing and industrial internet of things for enhanced supply chain co-ordination, quality and maintenance
• Augmented and Virtual Reality (AR/VR) in manufacturing applications
• Real-time weld defect monitoring and control in Body in White (BIW) structure of automotive vehicles
• Development and Implementation of an Artificial Intelligence enabled weld defect identification and classification system
• Development of machine learning based exhauster health monitoring and prediction system
• Development of a low-cost AI-based tyre specification reading and downstream analytics
• AI-enabled NDT software for auto-evaluation of industrial ToFD data
• Synthesis of Single Crystal Emerald Using Artificial Intelligence and Hydrothermal Apparatus
• intelligent Data Interlacing (iDI): development of AmploFly4.0TM data module

Industry/Academic Partners

Infrastructure

• Industry 4.0 enabled micro friction stir welding machine assisted by a 500 Kg payload
• Automated CNC machines
• CNC turning centre
• High precision sensors such as power, different load cells, oil quality monitoring and many more
• Wide range thermal imager
• High end servers for research on Industry 4.0
• Computer integrated manufacturing system with real time data transfer capability from sensors to cloud using IoT gateway