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India’s Manufacturing Revolution: ₹5,000 Crore Investment by Top Five Conglomerates to Achieve Zero-Defect, Zero-Downtim...
08/11/2025

India’s Manufacturing Revolution: ₹5,000 Crore Investment by Top Five Conglomerates to Achieve Zero-Defect, Zero-Downtime Factory Floors

India’s manufacturing landscape is on the brink of a transformation as five leading conglomerates commit ₹5,000 crore towards integrating AI-driven automation into their factory floors. This ambitious joint initiative aims to accomplish “zero-defect, zero-downtime” production within five years—a bold vision that promises to elevate India’s industrial productivity standards to compete with global leaders such as South Korea, Japan, and Germany.

Harnessing cutting-edge technologies like digital twins, AI-integrated control systems, and machine learning-powered defect prediction, this initiative will enable factories to self-diagnose inefficiencies, optimize maintenance schedules, and correct errors preemptively. Real-time data feeds from sensors, PLCs, and edge devices will fuel centralized AI hubs, creating agile, self-learning manufacturing ecosystems.

This initiative is expected to yield up to 25% energy optimization and reduce human error by approximately 90%, simultaneously driving the creation of thousands of new jobs in AI engineering, industrial data science, and process automation. It aligns perfectly with India’s long-term goals of sustainable, technology-driven industrial growth and marks a strategic shift away from traditional manufacturing toward knowledge-driven operations.

As factories evolve into intelligent ecosystems, this project signals India’s rise at the forefront of Industry 4.0, proving that automation is not just about productivity but precision, reliability, and global competitiveness.

Tagging Key Organisations - Tata Steel, Maruti Suzuki India Limited, Bajaj Auto Ltd, Asian Paints, Godrej & Boyce Mfg. Co. Ltd., Bosch

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India’s Auto Hub on the Cusp of a Robotics Revolution: 45% Labor Savings by 2026From Chennai to Pune, India’s automotive...
08/11/2025

India’s Auto Hub on the Cusp of a Robotics Revolution: 45% Labor Savings by 2026

From Chennai to Pune, India’s automotive heartland is gearing up for a transformative shift driven by next-generation assembly robots designed to redefine mass manufacturing economics. These advanced bots, equipped with AI vision, machine learning, and digital twin integration, are automating complex assembly tasks previously handled by multiple human operators — from welding to painting to precision fitting — delivering unmatched consistency, speed, and safety on the shop floor.

Built in close collaboration with Indian system integrators and global automation leaders, these robots are tailored to India’s unique production realities, including diverse model variations, tropical climates, and stringent tolerance requirements. Using AI-powered real-time decision loops and predictive calibration, they achieve near-zero error rates and minimal downtime. This wave of localized intelligent automation is projected to boost vehicle output by nearly 20% annually while cutting labor costs by up to 45% by 2026.

Beyond cost savings, energy efficiencies are expected to rise by 25%, fueled by streamlined process flow and smart power management, signaling a broader cultural shift in Indian manufacturing. Skilled engineers will now harness data, quality analytics, and collaboration tools, ushering in an era where humans and robots co-create excellence in intelligent automotive ecosystems.

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GrayMatter Robotics awarded AFWERX Direct-to-Phase II SBIR contract for groundbreaking robotic finishing in aerospaceGra...
08/11/2025

GrayMatter Robotics awarded AFWERX Direct-to-Phase II SBIR contract for groundbreaking robotic finishing in aerospace

GrayMatter Robotics is pioneering the future of aerospace manufacturing with a Direct-to-Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) contract from AFWERX, the Department of the Air Force’s innovation arm. This contract supports the development of an advanced robotic system designed to autonomously sand, polish, and grind transparent aerospace-grade components made from acrylic and polycarbonate, targeting optical distortions and defects that are critical challenges in aerospace manufacturing.

The company’s proprietary GMR-AI™ platform integrates physics-based models to give robots “physical AI” — understanding materials, forces, and geometries, enabling safe, precise, and adaptable finishing without manual programming. This capability extends GrayMatter’s existing solutions to delicate, high-mix, low-volume transparent parts, vital for optical clarity and structural integrity.

Leaders like CEO Ariyan Kabir and CTO Brual Shah highlight the transformative impact of their AI-powered robotic cells, which provide reliability, speed, and precision across aerospace, specialty vehicles, marine, and heavy equipment industries. Chief Scientist Satyandra K. (SK) Gupta emphasizes ease of deployment: “Companies can bring a part to a cell, scan it with a 3D camera, and the system autonomously begins operation.”

The company’s new 100,000 sq. ft. headquarters in Carson, California, symbolizes its commitment to domestic advanced manufacturing and will create over 100 skilled jobs, fueling workforce development and innovation.

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Vinmar International and Celonis: Revolutionizing Global Supply Chains with AI and Process IntelligenceAt Celosphere 202...
08/11/2025

Vinmar International and Celonis: Revolutionizing Global Supply Chains with AI and Process Intelligence

At Celosphere 2025, Vinmar International showcased its transformative journey in automating and streamlining its $3 billion Order-to-Cash (O2C) operation by deploying the Celonis Process Intelligence Platform. Previously burdened by manual workflows spanning multiple teams and platforms, the process was prone to costly logistics issues and default expediting of over 20% of orders.

Leveraging Celonis, Vinmar integrated real-time data across ERP, logistics, and banking systems to create a dynamic digital twin of its supply chain. This innovation empowers the company to seamlessly orchestrate people, systems, and AI—automating workflows, proactively flagging distressed orders, reducing email overload, and minimizing manual handoffs. For example, when an order is at risk, Celonis automatically routes it to the correct approver with a streamlined approval form, managing next steps such as expediting shipment or rescheduling delivery, thereby achieving high efficiency with minimal manual work.

Vishal Goradia, CEO of Vinmar International, emphasized how Celonis acts as the intelligence layer embedding AI directly into workflows, enhancing customer value, lowering costs, and enabling agile growth. Alexander Rinke, co-CEO and co-founder of Celonis, praised the collaboration as a blueprint for AI-powered business transformation, ensuring context-aware AI deployment integrated with existing operations.

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RSWM and Adani Energy Solutions: Powering a Sustainable Future for Indian IndustryRSWM Limited, a leading textile manufa...
08/11/2025

RSWM and Adani Energy Solutions: Powering a Sustainable Future for Indian Industry

RSWM Limited, a leading textile manufacturer and flagship company of the LNJ Bhilwara Group, has forged a landmark partnership with Adani Energy Solutions Ltd. (AESL) to supply 60 MW of renewable energy, marking a transformative step in India’s industrial sustainability journey. This collaboration will enable RSWM to source 70% of its total energy from renewable sources—well above the national average—by supplying 31.53 crore green units annually to its manufacturing facilities across Rajasthan.

With a ₹60 crore equity investment under the Group Captive Scheme, RSWM is not only reducing its carbon footprint but also enhancing long-term energy security and operational efficiency. The project exemplifies how businesses can align growth with sustainability, setting new benchmarks for responsible energy transition in the textile sector.

Riju Jhunjhunwala, Chairman, Managing Director, and CEO of RSWM Ltd, emphasized that this achievement underscores the company’s vision to be a forward-looking industrial leader. Kandarp Patel, CEO of Adani Energy Solutions Ltd, highlighted the scalability and impact of renewable power in driving industrial growth while ensuring environmental responsibility.

This partnership is a testament to the growing integration of sustainability into core business strategies, paving the way for a regenerative and resilient economy.

Tagging Key People - Rajeev Gupta

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Delhi Airport Chaos: A Wake-Up Call for Smarter, Resilient Airport AutomationA major technical glitch in the Air Traffic...
07/11/2025

Delhi Airport Chaos: A Wake-Up Call for Smarter, Resilient Airport Automation

A major technical glitch in the Air Traffic Control (ATC) system at Delhi’s Indira Gandhi International Airport led to over 100 flight delays, exposing critical vulnerabilities in India’s aviation infrastructure. The failure originated in the Automatic Message Switching System (AMSS), which disrupted automated flight plan processing and forced controllers to manually manage departures and arrivals—a slow, error-prone process at one of the world’s busiest airports.

This incident highlights the urgent need for intelligent automation in airport operations. Experts stress that predictive automation, AI-powered monitoring, and digital twin-based simulation platforms could have detected and mitigated such failures before they cascaded into chaos. As passenger volumes are set to treble by 2030, India’s airports must transition from digitally managed to intelligently automated ecosystems—where computers not only analyze data but also anticipate and prevent disruptions.

The Delhi airport episode is a stark reminder: automation is not just about efficiency, but about continuity, safety, and trust. The future of Indian aviation lies in autonomous operations and advanced control systems that guarantee zero downtime, turning every flight into a symbol of reliability.

Tagging Key Organisations - Airports Authority of India

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Indian Logistics Giant Sets New Benchmark: ₹250 Crore Roll-Out of Indigenous AMRs Across 12 Major HubsIndia’s logistics ...
07/11/2025

Indian Logistics Giant Sets New Benchmark: ₹250 Crore Roll-Out of Indigenous AMRs Across 12 Major Hubs

India’s logistics sector is entering a new era of intelligent mobility with a landmark ₹250 crore investment to deploy locally made Autonomous Mobile Robots (AMRs) across 12 of the nation’s largest logistical hubs. This initiative is set to revolutionize the flow of goods through fulfillment and distribution centers, leveraging LiDAR sensors, AI-based navigation, and fleet management software to automate pallet movement, item transport, and last-mile connections.

Developed in partnership with Indian robotics startups and automation integrators, these AMRs are engineered to withstand challenging industrial conditions—high dust, uneven surfaces, and intense operational cycles—showcasing the maturity of India’s domestic automation ecosystem. The deployment is expected to reduce manual handling by nearly 60%, cut operating costs by 35%, and significantly improve turnaround times at high-volume facilities.

By aligning with the government’s “Make In India” and “Digital India” missions, this move not only localizes robotics manufacturing but also creates hundreds of skilled jobs in digital logistics, robotics maintenance, and AI operations. Cloud-connected dashboards, AI-driven analytics, and IoT-based control systems will make these hubs intelligent, flexible, and energy-efficient, bridging the gap between technology and employment.

This announcement is more than a corporate milestone—it’s a national declaration that India can now engineer, scale, and own innovation in automation, positioning itself as a leader in smart mobility and robotics-driven transformation.

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Prevalon Energy and Emerson Join Forces to Revolutionize Data Center Energy Resilience and EfficiencyIn a groundbreaking...
07/11/2025

Prevalon Energy and Emerson Join Forces to Revolutionize Data Center Energy Resilience and Efficiency

In a groundbreaking global strategic collaboration, Prevalon Energy and Emerson are merging their advanced technologies to reshape the power and energy storage landscape for data centers. The alliance combines Prevalon’s cutting-edge HD5™ Energy Storage Platform and insightOS™ Energy Management System with Emerson’s trusted Ovation™ Automation Platform, delivering a unified solution to enhance energy resilience, grid reliability, and operational intelligence.

Designed to serve hyperscale, colocation, and enterprise data centers, this integrated platform ensures unmatched reliability and efficiency, meeting the demands of a rapidly electrifying digital economy. Prevalon’s HD5™ platform offers 5 MWh of usable energy and liquid cooling for safety and rapid deployment, while Emerson’s Ovation system adds power plant-grade control, diagnostics, and distributed logic enabling real-time, deterministic control.

Leaders Tom Cornell, President & CEO of Prevalon Energy, and Robert Yeager, President of Emerson’s Power and Water Solutions, emphasize the partnership’s potential to build the resilient, intelligent infrastructure essential for modern mission-critical operations globally. The companies will jointly accelerate marketing, development, and customer engagement to promote next-generation energy technologies in data centers worldwide.

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VIAVI T/Rx Software Defined Transceiver System: Winning the Electronic Warfare Battlefield Realism Challenge with Unmatc...
07/11/2025

VIAVI T/Rx Software Defined Transceiver System: Winning the Electronic Warfare Battlefield Realism Challenge with Unmatched Signal Fidelity

The VIAVI T/Rx system has emerged as a game-changer by securing first place in the CHALLENGE.GOV Electronic Warfare Battlefield Realism Prize Challenge held at Camp Shelby, Mississippi. This compact, rugged transceiver system excels in producing realistic signal environments that are indistinguishable from real signals, even to skilled operators and advanced sensors.

Equipped with two independent receivers and two transmitters per unit, VIAVI T/Rx operates across a vast frequency range of 1 MHz to 18 GHz, with up to 400 MHz instantaneous bandwidth per channel and terabytes of waveform storage. This empowers deep signal recording, characterization, and replication capabilities essential for tactical ground and air systems, UAS and counter-UAS, radar, and civilian communication testing.

Certified to MIL-STD-810H for harsh field conditions, its modular design supports rapid deployment in fixed, mobile, or displaced environments. Leveraging over a century of RF instrumentation expertise, VIAVI Solutions delivers cutting-edge, precision RF solutions vital for modern warfighters’ training and mission success.

Doug Russell, SVP and GM of Aerospace and Defense at VIAVI, stresses that the system’s consistent, high-fidelity replication of both Blue and Red signals provides unmatched capability for electronic warfare readiness and obfuscation missions.

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Spectrum Instrumentation’s Ultrafast 63xx Series AWGs: Elevating Embedded AI with Direct Digital SynthesisSpectrum Instr...
07/11/2025

Spectrum Instrumentation’s Ultrafast 63xx Series AWGs: Elevating Embedded AI with Direct Digital Synthesis

Spectrum Instrumentation’s latest upgrade to the 63xx series Arbitrary Waveform Generators (AWGs) introduces the powerful Direct Digital Synthesis (DDS) option, redefining waveform generation capabilities with up to 64 simultaneous, independently programmable sine waves on a single channel. These AWGs operate at up to 10 Gigasamples per second with 16-bit resolution and bandwidths reaching 3.9 GHz, delivering unmatched precision and speed for industrial, medical, communications, and quantum research applications.

The DDS mode allows granular control of frequency, amplitude, and phase at nanosecond resolution (3.2 ns steps), enabling complex waveform trains, frequency sweeps, and customizable references with real-time command ex*****on or preloaded sequences. This upgrade enhances efficiency by reducing the need for streaming large waveform datasets, instead using compact command sequences stored on the device.

Available in PCIe-based M5i.63xx models for PC integration and NETBOX standalone LXI-compliant configurations, these AWGs offer scalable channel synchronization (up to 16 synchronous channels and 512 DDS cores) suited for both benchtop use and high-density implementations. Software support spans Windows and Linux ecosystems, with extensive programming examples and a high-level Python API, backed by lifetime technical support and continuous software updates.

CTO Oliver Rovini highlights how this innovation boosts waveform generation efficiency and flexibility, enabling agile, high-purity signal sources critical for cutting-edge embedded AI and system design.

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SKF launches The Patent Bay: Open patents to accelerate sustainability-focused innovationSKF Group has launched The Pate...
07/11/2025

SKF launches The Patent Bay: Open patents to accelerate sustainability-focused innovation

SKF Group has launched The Patent Bay, an open platform where select SKF patents will be made freely available to companies and innovators building technologies with clear sustainability impact, signaling a bold shift from protection to collaboration to speed climate-positive solutions. Anchored in the belief that breakthroughs scale when knowledge is shared, SKF positions The Patent Bay alongside historical moments of open innovation—from lifesaving seatbelts to the open web and shared vaccine tech—to catalyze cross-industry ripple effects.​

The initiative arrives as global patent filings hit a record 3.55 million in 2023, underscoring both a vibrant innovation climate and growing barriers to access and collaboration; SKF’s CEO Rickard Gustafson frames openness as a lever for collective progress.

The first patent released is a high‑performance bearing alloy originally developed for aviation that enables higher loads in more compact designs, supporting next‑gen engine architectures targeting up to 25% emission reductions and unlocking broader efficiency gains. The Patent Bay is now live for organizations committed to sustainability‑advancing technologies.

Tagging Key People - Arnaud Ruellan du Créhu

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India’s Progressive AI Policy: Embracing Risk-Based Governance Over Restrictive LegislationIn a pivotal move poised to a...
06/11/2025

India’s Progressive AI Policy: Embracing Risk-Based Governance Over Restrictive Legislation

In a pivotal move poised to accelerate automation and digital transformation, India’s government has decided not to enact a separate artificial intelligence law. Instead, a risk-based governance framework is being adopted, emphasizing accountability, innovation, and openness rather than heavy regulatory control. This flexible approach categorizes AI applications into high, medium, and low-risk, enabling safe experimentation while minimizing administrative burdens for businesses.

This seismic shift empowers industries deploying AI-powered robotics, predictive maintenance, and cognitive process controllers, offering clarity and freedom to innovate responsibly. Indian companies are encouraged to develop transparent and explainable AI solutions that balance sustainability, ethical responsibility, and fairness, moving beyond mere compliance to proactive stewardship.

Sandbox environments for domestic AI startups further support rapid prototyping and scaling, catalyzing India’s position as a global leader in AI-driven manufacturing, logistics, and smart infrastructure. By prioritizing risk management over rigid regulation, India signals a new era where AI seamlessly integrates as a collaborative force shaping future-ready factories and ecosystems.

Tagging Key Organisations - Government of India, NITI Aayog, Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology

Read More - https://www.industrialautomationindia.in/news/indias-ai-policy-shift-risk-framework-no-separate-law

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