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CII INDUSTRIAL INNOVATION AWARDS 2020

Source: Forms and Gears

To keep up Industry 4.0 is the ability of machines, devices, sensors and people to connect and communicate with each other via the Internet of Things.
with the ad- SmartFix 4.0 is that revolution in the fixture building business.
vancements
in the Ma- Intelligence tools and sent back ment, making it a highly flexible decades now. The award signi-
chine Tool to a custom-built Dashboard of and easily adaptable system.” fies the indispensable role of fix-
and Cutting the end-user, which resembles ture building companies on the
Tool tech-
nology, their factory floor, showing all Winning accolades modern-day shop floor. Smart
Workholding the machines in action as well In December 2020, Forms and fixtures, in particular, have the
technology as a quick summary on the Gears was awarded the presti- potential to catalyze the next
has also to health of each machine, fixture, gious Confederation of Indian revolution in the digitalization
keep pace and powerpack. Industry (CII) Industrial Innova- journey of manufacturers.”
so that the Reji says, “Over the last 50 years, tion Award 2020 under the ‘Top “The award is a validation of
capability we have seen seismic shifts in 25 Most Innovative Companies’ the capabilities of our expert
of the ma- manufacturing. We used to do category for having developed development team and deep un-
chines Workholding for conventional Smartfix 4.0. derstanding of fixtures, which
and the machines in the 70s which slow- Talking about the award, Annu is the reason why the world’s
tools can ly transformed into Fixtures for Varghese says, “At Forms and best companies trust Forms and
be fully
utilized. indigenous Machining Centers Gears, we have built fixtures Gears. Our solutions leverage
and then to advanced Work- that have helped our clients emerging technologies such as
holding solutions for high-speed foster innovation, increase pro- cloud computing, artificial in-
imported Machining Centers. To ductivity and save costs for five telligence data analytics, and
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in the Machine Tool and Cutting
Tool technology, Workholding CII INDUSTRIAL INNOVATION AWARDS 2020
technology has also to keep pace
so that the capability of the ma-
chines and the tools can be fully
utilized. Over the last few years,
we have come to the conclu-
sion that the next revolution in
Workholding would be to make
fixtures smarter by making them
IoT- and Industry 4.0-enabled
and that’s how we have come up
with SmartFix 4.0. Smartfix 4.0 Source: Forms and Gears
can also be used on existing fix-
tures, test rigs, and special equip-
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