Incubation centre on Industry 4.0 set up in Vizag for startups
RINL CMD Atul Bhatt on Thursday inaugurated the Center for Entrepreneurship (CoE) on Industry 4.0 namely Kalpataru established at Ukkunagaram township of Visakhapatnam Steel Plant to incubate and nurture the startups.
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Visakhapatnam RINL CMD Atul Bhatt on Thursday inaugurated the Center for Entrepreneurship (CoE) on Industry 4.0 namely Kalpataru established at Ukkunagaram township of Visakhapatnam Steel Plant to incubate and nurture the startups.
The incubation center is hosting laboratories such as robotics, drones, AI/ML, AR/VR, Industrial Internet of Things and 3-D printing to help support the design of the solutions/products for the industrial problems using Industry 4.0 Technologies. The project is unique in two ways. It is the first incubation center under MeitY with the whole gamut of Industry 4.0 technologies and other is that this is first project under MeitY with strong public sector backing wherein the PSU provides the problem statements by feeding for the startups incubation.
On the inaugural day, five startups were onboarded for an equal number of problem statements of RINL. RINL exchanged MoUs with the startups in the presence of Bhatt, Anil Kumar, CEO, AP Innovation Society, V Krishnamohan, Registrar, Andhra University, CVD Ramprasad, Jurisdictional Director, STPI, AP & Telangana & CEO, AK Bagchi, RINL Director (Projects).
