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Being the leading international company, Mahindra group delivers best quality products and the pressure is constantly rising as customer demands rises. Painting is one of the most important parameters when it comes to automobiles. Our team analysed car painting and its training process and realized that time, cost and wastage were the major consumables in paint dexterity.

CII and KPMG's first annual survey of Industry 4.0 digital readiness across ten Indian manufacturing sectors, benchmarked against Germany, Japan, South Korea, China, the US, the UK and Singapore. The report exposes wide disparities — large firms score 3.4/5 while MSMEs trail at 2.4 — and although 85% of senior leaders prioritise digitalisation, only 30% of organisations have successfully scaled their initiatives.

Digital transformation journey starts with identifying processes in the entire value chain that can be transformed using IT tools or automations in a manner that will bring business benefits. Clearly, use of these tools should lead to either efficiency or reliability improvement in processes, improvement in performance parameters, lead to financial gains or lead to enhancing satisfaction of business partners (customers, employees, suppliers, investors, etc.).

Published by the CII Smart Manufacturing Council, this compendium presents eight in-depth case studies from Indian and global companies — including Ace Micromatic Group, B&R India, Bosch India, IBM India, Rockwell Automation India and Siemens India — demonstrating real-world deployments of smart manufacturing technologies and the resulting benefits.

Spindle Failure breakdowns on Grinding Machine affects Productivity & Quality badly. Affecting customers in various Automotive, Industrial, Railway, aerospace and variety of customers

An article by Tejpreet S. Chopra (BLP Group / BLP Industry.AI) describing three AI-powered solutions developed for factory floor safety during COVID-19 — camera-based analytics ('Trust AI'), mobile proximity tracking ('US Pro') and wearable IoT devices ('Spot AI') — addressing PPE compliance, social distancing, temperature monitoring and contact tracing.