Kyndryl India and IIT Tirupati Collaborate on AI-Enabled 3D Printing for Smart Manufacturing

Bangalore, India – Kyndryl, the world’s largest IT infrastructure services provider, and the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Tirupati, one of the premier technology institutions in India, recently announced a collaboration to advance research, share knowledge, promote innovation, and drive breakthrough developments in AI-enabled 3D printing technology. The collaboration will focus on rapidly developing cost-effective 3D prototypes for complex manufacturing products.

The collaboration will combine IIT Tirupati’s domain knowledge in 3D printing with Kyndryl’s global expertise in Artificial Intelligence (AI), allowing for the co-creation of Machine Learning (ML) models that will allow for the detection of potential defects during 3D printing in near real-time. Gaining this knowledge ahead of time could lead to significant cost, time, and waste savings, as well as contribute to new product development by predicting performance in real-world manufacturing environments.

The two organizations have already begun collaborative research and will launch a series of thought leadership conclaves and innovation challenges to advance new ideas across industry and academia, in accordance with the National Innovation and Start-up Policy – 2019 (NISP-2019).

Stating that the partnership will allow IIT Tirupati students and faculty to collaborate with Kyndryl’s best-in-class professionals on the frontiers of implementing AI to solve industry challenges, Prof KN Satyanarayana, Director, IIT Tirupati, says, “The co-creation in the digital manufacturing segment with Kyndryl can quickly provide cost-effective solutions to the manufacturing industry and provide better exposure to our students.”

Emphasizing that in order to achieve India’s National Manufacturing Policy goal of increasing the manufacturing sector’s GDP share to 25 percent by 2025, research advancements and skill development will play an important role in deploying AI in innovative ways to make smart manufacturing technology more accessible and efficient, Lingraju Sawkar, President, Kyndryl India, adds, “This collaboration will harness Kyndryl’s data and AI expertise to help IIT Tirupati create a meaningful learning experience for students and serve as a scalable model of how industry and academia can co-create to help industries.”

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