The second project relates to setting up a welding technology Centre of Excellence in PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore. In order to give fillip to the quality and numbers of welding professionals required for ‘Make in India', PSG has proposed to set up a modern welding technology centre of excellence in collaboration with major stake holders like Welding Research Institute, Manufacturers of welding equipment/ products and FICCI etc.
The Centre of Excellence will support Indian manufacturers by proving latest technologies developed by the Centre for home -made welding machine tools, consumables and locally trained manpower particularly in high-end welding jobs required by strategic sectors. The total budget excluding land and building (to be provided by PSG) is estimated to be Rs.26.7 crore. Out of this, the government will provide Rs.21.10 crore and the rest will be provided by the industry and the institute.
The third approval has been given to HMT Machine Tools Limited, a PSU, which pioneered setting up and growth of machine tool industry in India. HMT is modernizing its product portfolio through this proposal by manufacturing latest lathe and turning mill centre.
For this, they are collaborating with M/s Fraunhofer of Germany, the leading industrial technology development institute of the world. As a result, HMT will be in a position to supply most modern and latest range of machines to Railways, Defence, Shipping, Aviation and Aerospace etc. A grant of Rs. 1.54 crore will be given to the company. This will be the first step by the company towards technology modernization.
The fourth proposal is from HEC, Ranchi - a central PSU in the area of manufacture of heavy engineering equipment. Set up with USSR collaboration, HEC remains the premier PSU making heavy engineering equipment, with few parallels in the world. Under the present approval, HEC has collaborated with Messrs CNIITMASH - a Russian government Industrial Technology Research Institute.
The importance of the collaboration is in the fact that after several decades, closely held and strategically significant technologies will again flow to the public sector in India. The proposal is for imparting training to 1350 engineers in three years in the latest technologies relating to electro slag re-melting, welding, gear box manufacturing and non-destructive testing.
The project size is envisaged at Rs 50 crores, out of which the Government component will be Rs.30 crores, which will be given to the Russian institute for their knowledge support in creating the four training centers. HEC will sign MoU with other stake holders units and run nine courses for the benefit of Indian manufacturing sector. Once implemented, the trained persons will be involved in manufacturing steel, welding, gear box and NDT saving crores of precious foreign exchange.
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