Central Mechanical Engineering Research Institute (CMERI) and Indo-Danish Tool Room, Ministry of MSME- Technology Centre, Jamshedpur signed a Memorandum of Understanding ( MoU) on Friday, on a virtual platform. Prof. (Dr.) Harish Hirani, Director, CSIR-CMERI and Anand Dayal, managing director, IDTR, Jamshedpur were present on the occasion.
The MoU focuses upon forging partnerships for exchange of human resources, sharing of assets and facilities, promoting marketing of technologies, organizing joint workshops for skilling the youth, improving the job and entrepreneurial opportunities for the youth and conducting workshops on IoT applications for the Industry.
Prof. (Dr.) Harish Hirani, in his address expressed, “This MoU with IDTR is a result of the experience garnered from all the existing MoUs entered into by CSIR-CMERI. IDTR will be a sort of an extended Manufacturing arm for CSIR-CMERI, to ensure that the CSIR-CMERI technologies have maximum outreach across the Nation.
CSIR-CMERI is working with its potential towards the import substitutionand when the two such Institutions join hands the optimum potential would grow to make an Atmanirbhar Bharat. Mutual cooperation in the skill development programmes is required so that the unemployment in the youngsters could be tackled properly and the technological developments are taken ahead. We need to reduce the existing logistic costs in the industries by setting up of smaller industrial units at nearer places.”
Prof. (Dr.) Harish Hirani,further stated, “Since different Institutions are trying their best to deliver their mandated tasks, networking amongst these Institutes will create an Ecosystem, which will provide a win-win situation for the MSMEs. Linking of the Financial Services to the MSMEs through Networking will also provide the necessary capital back-up. Such Collaborations will ultimately benefit India, Society and the involved Institutions. CSIR-CMERI has developed some big technologies in the domain of Municipal Solid Waste and Hospital Waste Management, Farm Mechanization, Water Purification, which has the potential to positively influence the lives of hundreds of millions across the Nation.”
Anand Dayal stated, “CSIR-CMERI being the best Institution in the country in the domain of Mechanical Engineering will be able to provide critical Technology Support in the spheres of Agricultural Machinery, Toy Industry and Incense Manufacturing Clusters. One of the potential biggest areas of technology intervention for CSIR-CMERI can be in the domain of Industry 4.0 through next-generation concepts such as Additive Manufacturing, 3D Printing (Metal and Polymers), Internet-of-Things, Artificial Intelligence and maximized Automation of Mechanical Processes. Through maximum interactions between IDTR and CSIR-CMERI, On-Site Skilling in the remotest corners of the country may be facilitated over time.
