Tag: Innovation

Keynote Presentations at COPEN-13, @ NIT Calicut – India

Dr. Krishnamoorthy (Subbu) Subramanian, President STIMS Institute and Prof. Ramesh N. Babu, IIT – Madras and Secretary AMTDC presented a joint invited Key Note address at the 13th Conference on Precision Engineering (COPEN – 13) on Dec. 13th 2024 at NIT Calicut, Kerala, India. The presentation was followed by a panel session to further gain insights on successful models and strategy for industry/academia collaboration together with support from the funding agencies, and future directions.
It was an unique opportunity as well as experience. It was the culmination of over a decade long collaboration between STIMS Institute, IIT- Madras, several industry partners as well as support from Govt. of India. The presentations covered two themes:
Substantial collaborative work has progressed inside of India for more than a decade now. This is a remarkable demonstration of success in   Industry/Academia collaboration, much sought after by Industries, Academia and funding agencies from the Govt. in all nations across the globe.
The secret for success can be summatized as a relentless emphasis on System Thinking and Transformational Skills with a determined focus on End-to-End Innovation!
This joint key note talk was presented in two parts by an academic leader with hands on experience in real world innovation and the Knowledge-Integration expertise promoted by the STIMS Institute.

Part 1:   Prof. Babu: Real life experience – home grown success in  Industry/academia collaboration, which is now seen as the successfully established Advanced Manufacturing Technology Development Center (AMTDC) located at the IIT Research Park, Taramani, Chennai, Tamil Nady, India.
https://stimsinstitute.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/copen13_nitc_final-1-prof.-babu.pdf

Part 2:   Dr. Krishnamoorthy (Subbu) Subramanian: Origins and Strategy (based on over   40 years of experience in inter-industry and   Industry / Academia Collaboration). — Strategies for End-to-End Innovation -“System Thinking” and “Transformational Skills”
https://stimsinstitute.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/copen-13-key-note-paper-final.pdf

Few images from this event and presentations are included below. We thank the conference organizers, academia and industry partners as well as industry consortium represented by IMTMA and also the fiunding agencies from the Government of India. Special thanks to Mr. N.K. Dhand, Chairman, Micromatic Grinding Technology Ltd. (MGTL) and Mr. Mohanram, adviser, Indian Machine Tool Manufacturers Association (IMTMA) for their unstincting support for this decade long collaboration and outcome.

This successful model, for industry/academia collaboration at AMTDC has also been implemented earlier as an inter-industry collaborative effort inside the industry, by Dr. Subramanian through his industrial working career. We hope there will be more efforts to replicate this successful model and its outcomes by many in the Academia/Industry and Govt. agencucies.

Advanced Manufacturing Technology Development Center (AMTDC) https://amtdc.org/

Dr. Subramanian, President, STIMS Institute presented the key note lecture at the international seminar on Innovation and Higher Education

 

BBDIT Invitation

Invited Speakers

Key note lecture BBDIT 10 26 13 (FINAL)(1)

The international seminar on Innovation and Higher Education held on Oct. 26th at BBDIT highlighted the following points. Every speaker seemed to converge on similar themes:

  • Education must promote skills for thinking (i.e.) challenge the status quo and ask the question “Why?” relentlessly.
  • Any education has to also promote an ability to apply the knowledge acquired to some useful end purpose.
  • Education has to be linked to some target industry or user. This makes the students work force ready.
  • Education has to be project oriented. Such project and their execution is a measure of the problem solving skills of the students.

The Key Note lecture also acknowledged the above points. In addition the following additional points were offered for Innovation and Higher Education.

  • At this time – in the 21st century – we live in a Binary Economy: A high skills work force creating and exploiting a stream of New Solutions (Economy1) as a parallel and distinct from a low skills – low wage work force (in larger numbers) employed to carry out well defined tasks to Replicate known solutions (Economy 2).

https://stimsinstitute.com/2013/07/17/learn-to-swim-against-the-tide-of-binary-economy/

  • All educational efforts to meet the work force needs of Economy 1, have to make the student (and later the engineer) more comprehensive in his/her outlook as a professional, who can identify, develop and deploy/implement a stream of New Solutions.  This requires System Thinking and Transformational Skills.
  • Such education on ST and TS has to be formal, structured and results oriented. Such formal education on ST and TS is a MUST,  in order for all the academic education and industry oriented training to become effective and useful and achieve the end result of value to all: the students, the company and the industry.
  • Such education for students with effectiveness will also be the differentiating advantage for the colleges (academic institutions) in the long run.