A Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) was signed between RDCIS, SAIL, Ranchi and IIT, Kharagpur for collaborative research on ‘Machine Learning based Health Monitoring of critical equipment’ yesterday. This shall go a long way in preventive maintenance of critical equipment and shall ensure high Mean Time Between Failures( MTBF) thereby obviate delays in production. Also, there shall be augmentation of life-cycle for expensive equipment of SAIL Plants, after horizontal transfer of this technology. Additionally, this data analytics intensive project shall be the right stepping stone for Industry 4.0. This initiative by SAIL was made under the guidance of Nirvik Banerjee, ED(RDCIS), SAIL.
The MoA was inked by S. Parida, CGM (A&E), RDCIS, SAIL and Prof. Surjya K Pal, Chairman, COE AMT, IIT, Kharagpur. Also present were S. Goswami, CGM(Iron), Neeta Chakravarty, GM(PC), RS Kumar, GM(A&E) of SAIL and ND Chakladar of IIT(KGP).
Also, the second Surveillance Audit of the Quality Management System (QMS) of RDCIS, SAIL was successfully conducted by TUV India Pvt. Ltd. The QMS of RDCIS is certified to ISO 9001:2015 standard. The audit at Ranchi was done during the period 13-15 October 2022; however, the certificate was issued by M/s TUV today. The opening meeting of the audit was chaired by Nirvik Banerjee, ED(RDCIS). Amitabha Sengupta, Lead Auditor representing TUV India Pvt. Ltd. also shared his views.