Special Service and Features
'INDUSTRY 4.0 ENHANCES THE INCREASE IN PRODUCTIVITY OF INDUSTRIES' said Dr.Ravindra Thamma, Professor & Associate Dean, Manufacturing & Construction Management, Central Connecticut State University, USA
The Department of Instrumentation and Control Engg., in collaboration with the International Society of Automation  NIT Trichy Students Section organized a guest lecture on Concept to Factory Acceptance Test  of Machine Vision Based Medical Implant Polishing System with Online Feedback using Machine Learning by Dr.Ravindra Thamma, Professor & Associate Dean, Manufacturing & Construction Management, Central Connecticut State University, USA.
Ms Pavani Gorripati, President, ISA, NIT Trichy Students Section listed the various activities organized and informed the future plans too.
Dr. N. Sivakumaran, Professor, Dept of Instrumentation & Control Engineering  and Faculty advisor of ISA-NITT student section welcomed the gathering. He gave the importance of joining ISA membership. He said in the current scenario of the fast-growing technology world, it is very important to be part of such professional
bodies where the student community can be upgraded with the latest technology and become tomorrow’s professionals in Intelligently linking and analyzing data for fast and confident decisions. The industrial world is facing rapidly changing challenges. Our resources are finite, and we all need to do more with less. Industrial Domain
was discussed and enlightened the participants by discussing the current technologies and their implementation in the industry such as Computer Vision, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, and Sentient Tools. He also stressed the importance of Industry 4.0 for the progress of Manufacturing industries in the
future. The participants understood the importance of digitalization and how developing a digital twin could drive automation and bring greater efficiency to the different processes.
Dr K Dhanalakshmi, Professor and Head presented the memento and said, the Department of ICE, NIT Trichy is having state of art facilities in the Industrial Automation Laboratory. Students can well utilize the facilities and organize more events especially to focus on the social causes which would help society on a larger scale.
Dr.Ravindra Thamma, Professor & Associate Dean in the School of Engineering Science and Technology , Manufacturing & Construction Management, Central Connecticut State University, USA was the chief guest for this session. He said Digitalization and automation are the game changers to meet these challenges on the way
to Industry 4.0. He said the old amalgamation vision of Industry 1.0,2.0,3.0. In the present scenario Mass customization, Modularity, Additive Manufacturing,3D Printing, Real-time capability, Digitization, Cyber-Physical systems, Automation, and Robotization leads to the importance of Industry 4.0. He also explained on Concept
of FAT of a Machine Vision-Based Medical Implant Polishing System with Online feedback using Machine Learning. He explained the development of the prototype for orthopedic patients in a span of seventeen days. He listed the challenges faced in buffing the medical implants and their importance was discussed. Manually done buffing resulted in imperfections on the surface, irregular grain size, manual errors, etc. In medical implants, the surface needs to be smoothened with a higher degree of perfection, hence it was a great challenge to automate the entire process of machine buffing. A very well trained Machine learning algorithm was used to run the process, which is fed with various types of inputs like the image of the surface as feedback from a profilometer attached to the camera, mathematical modeling
outputs, position sensors data, PLC data, etc., Hence the entire process was automated and buffing was completed successfully with a smoother surface.
Mr J Santhosh,2nd year,M.Tech  student proposed the vote of thanks.
The overall summative conclusion was listed by Mr. Aditya Gaikwad,2nd year, M.Tech  student.
Participants include the Faculty members, Non-Teaching Staff, Research Scholars and Students who attended this event and made it successful.
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