EV Revolution: Paving the Way for a Cleaner, Greener India
11 Jan 2023 India is the third largest consumer of energy but the march towards a net zero carbon goal by 2070 hinges on sustainable mobility practices that combine the objectives of ease of travel and ease of living with that of a healthier and greener tomorrow. After over a century of petroleum dominance, the […]
Designing for Human Welfare & Business Continuity
12 Jan 2023 A critical challenge for today’s society is to rethink existing institutions to equally address the requirements of a growing global population while guaranteeing future environmental sustainability. Trends in geopolitics and geoeconomics are coming together in a way that has implications for all economies. Global priorities have shifted towards geopolitical stability, sustainability issues […]
Artificial Intelligence Trends Changing the Industrial Status Quo
13 Jan 2023 Nowadays, nothing impacts our present and future more fundamentally than the way technology does. It influences our choices, our interpersonal relationships and our behavioural patterns. The role of technology in day-to-day human activities have expanded to an extent where the sum of our actions can have real time impact on the economy […]
Leveraging Next Generation Technologies for Aatmanirbhar Bharat
04 May 2021 The Prime Minister’ vision of reviving growth with self-reliance focuses on five major pillars of development: economy, infrastructure, technology driven systems, vibrant demography and sustained demand. While each of these five pillars are crucial for growth, technology driven systems is one aspect which is critical for the other four factors. India cannot […]
Weld 4.0: Industry 4.0 in Welding
13 May 2021 The consistent implementation of Industry 4.0 has a decisive influence on the factory of the future, which will develop into a ‘smart factory’. For a ‘smart factory’ to work more or less autonomously without human interaction, some criteria must be met for welding applications. The welding know-how has to be digitized and […]
Bringing Change through Technology
28 Jun 2021 India is passing through an unprecedented health crisis and yet another economic challenge. However, the loss of economic momentum is not as severe as last year. As vaccination gains speed, the second half is expected to be strong. The objective, both for the Government and for the Industry remains the same – […]
Mechanical ventilation system for Post COVID Era
30 Jun 2021 COVID-19, the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, a pandemic declared by the WHO, brought into focus, rather sharply, on not only how quickly but also how effectively we are creating & adapting the ‘new normal’. HVAC systems can have a major effect on the transmission of infectious microscopic airborne particles and […]
The lightning speed of COVID vaccine development
09 Jul 2021 Vaccine development, before COVID-19, took years or decades. A look at the brief history of vaccine development[1] shows how far we have come. Since the advent of COVID-19, it did not take even a year to develop the first COVID-19 vaccine. Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine was the first vaccine to get emergency approval from the […]
8 Trends in Green Architecture Design
16 May 2022 The green wave that is sweeping across the infrastructure sector has become the driving force behind cutting-edge innovation, design and technology. Living with an elevated sense of urgency for reversing climate change and coping with the threat of global biodiversity loss and environmental safety concerns has inspired a dynamic social shift towards […]
Design Intervention for Circular Economy
31 May 2022 Circularity & Sustainability Circular economy is defined as an industrial system that is restorative or regenerative by intention and design. It replaces the end-of-life concept with restoration, shifts towards the use of renewable energy, eliminates the use of toxic chemicals, which impair reuse and return to the biosphere and aims for the elimination […]