A journey well travelled
Bengaluru, Feb. 12: In an attempt to commemorate 10th anniversary of operations of alfaTKG and AMDTC, IIT Madras Research Park Chennai jointly organised a seminar on ‘Smart Manufacturing using DX Solutions for Sheet Metal Industries’ recently.
Delivering a keynote address Prof N Ramesh Babu, Professor Department of Mechanical Engineering IIT Madras & Secretary, Advanced Manufacturing Technology Development Centre, (AMTDC), IIT Madras highlighted upon his collaboration with alfaTKG since its inception.
Appreciating alfaTKG growth and its ability to develop smart solutions for Sheet Metal Customers he commented on the importance of high tech and critical as well as emerging technologies through academia to make India as developed country by 2030. He elaborated that Smart Manufacturing is essential for small or large companies, alfaTKG is providing such solutions for achieving smart manufacturing.
Mr. Toshio Takagi, CEO, alfaTKG delineated on the growth of alfaTKG in the last one decade and introduced the key customers from Japan and India. He kick-started and briefed three recent important software solutions being delivered to customers namely alfaJulia, alfaPRIMO, alfa100.
Dr. Thanapandi, CEO of alfaTKG Integrated Solutions India, walked through alfaJulia software solutions for sheet metal welding, deburring and inspection using Robots and Cobots. Though there are many OEMs bring up such solutions but alfaTKG provides the solution in a better way by linking alfaTKG alfa3D that enables self-teaching and identify the right welding, deburring and inspection methods.
Ms. Yamamotto Shio, the Director of Services of alfaTKG presented alfaPRIMO that enables drawing management using AI. She explained the three important steps namely drawing scanning, automatic linking and AI Search.
Mr. Toshio Takagi briefly presented alfa 100 requested Mr.Uday, HEMAIR systems Ltd., India, to present his usage experience of alfa100. Mr. Uday presented the benefit of using alfa100 for the work order that contains huge number of parts. Without using alfa100 the shopfloor people miss many parts that affects the production and quality, but by alfa100 seamlessly all the parts are getting manufactured without any miss. It saves time and enables quality.
Followed by this presentations Panel Discussion Mr. Vel, CEO, Sameta spoke about the smart solutions using different smart solutions. Japan customer Mr. Sho Arakawa, CEO of MAKABE Inc., mentioned that alfaJulia is going to help to do the welding of large parts. Dr Rajeev Lochana, Asst Prof, Amrita School of Engineering, Bangalore presented how robotic solutions are enabled for different applications independent of robot manufacturers.
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