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Hexagon Teams up with CMTI to Support India’s Push

for Smart Manufacturing

Hexagon has entered into a partnership
with India’s Central Manufacturing
Technology Institute (CMTI) to establish
a Smart Manufacturing Development
and Demonstration Cell (SMDDC), an
Industry 4.0 Centre of Excellence and
Experience Centre, at the CMTI premises
in Bengaluru. Through this engagement,
Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence
division will support the implementation
and operations of the SMDDC by
providing products, services and know-
how.
This initiative support the “Make in
India” vision under the aegis of the
Smart Advanced Manufacturing and
Rapid Transformation Hub (SAMARTH)
Udyog initiative of the Ministry of Heavy
Industries and Public Enterprises.
The SMDDC is envisioned as a Central Manufacturing Technology Institute (CMTI) & Hexagon Manufacturing
Common Engineering Facility Centre to Intelligence join hands in a new initiative
propagate and support the adoption of
Industry 4.0 and smart manufacturing of-the-art technology through Industry to experiment and scale with their
practices by the rapidly growing Indian 4.0 and building the required expertise needs. It includes a robust research and
manufacturing industry. for smart manufacturing in India,” said training platform that leverages part of
“This is a timely initiative to empower Sridhar Dharmarajan, Executive Vice the existing manufacturing infrastructure
the Indian industry, especially the President and Managing Director, at CMTI.
MSMEs, to experience and adopt Hexagon’s Manufacturing Intelligence, In September 2019, MSC Software
Industry 4.0 technologies to enhance India. “We are proud to collaborate and signed a similar agreement with the
their quality, productivity and efficiency are fully committed in this initiative with government-supported IIT Delhi-AIA
in a cost-effective manner,” said Dr. CMTI to drive the adoption of Industry Foundation for Smart Manufacturing
Nagahanumaiah, Director, CMTI. “We 4.0 technologies.” (FSM) to encourage the adoption of
are delighted to associate ourselves Hexagon will work with CMTI to smart manufacturing among Small-to-
with Hexagon as our vision to build establish a Smart Factory Demonstrator Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in India.
a smart manufacturing facility and with a Digital Twin for Small & Medium Hexagon’s digital twin capabilities
demo centre under SAMARTH Udyog Businesses with examples relating to help companies digitally transform
initiative is coming to fruition. We CNC machining, sheet metal production manufacturing processes, seamlessly
would like to invite Indian design and and additive manufacturing. Employing connecting data from throughout
manufacturing organizations to come Industry 4.0 / Smart Factory platforms, the process and converging the real
and experience smart manufacturing and the Smart Factory Demonstrator and CAE worlds to drive continuous
how it could help them for their specific showcases the latest manufacturing improvement. Hexagon’s Manufacturing
requirements.” technologies for these industries. The Intelligence division provides solutions
“We believe this project will go a long Demonstrator will focus on solution that utilize data from design and
way in promoting indigenous research architectures that are modular and engineering, production, and metrology
and developing cost effective, state- configurable enabling smaller businesses to make manufacturing smarter.

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