2 weeks Ago
Ludhiana: The 3D Printing and Reverse Engineering Lab established at the Chamber of Industrial and Commercial Undertakings ( CICU ) is receiving an encouraging response. Industries have been actively reaching out with queries and proposals for reverse engineering and 3D printing projects. Around two months ago, the CICU launched a Centre of Excellence at its premises, which includes two dedicated labs.
The first, the AWaDH-CPS Lab, was set up in collaboration with IIT Ropar and focuses on IoT sensor-based prototyping. The second lab, inaugurated later, offers advanced 3D printing and reverse engineering capabilities. CICU president Upkar Singh Ahuja said reverse engineering would benefit the industry in a big way, while research and development take a long time, but non-patented components which are being imported by the industry can be developed within Ludhiana by reverse engineering.
Speaking about the developments at the lab, he said the response of the industry has been good, because they have reached out to the chamber. He said 15 components from different industries have already been reverse engineered at the lab. "A hydraulic machine was being imported from Taiwan.
The component was studied at the reverse engineering lab, and now it has been recreated," he said. "This way, many components, parts and autoparts that are required by the industry can be studied, which can benefit the industry in a big way," he added. 3D Printers, small and large ones, can print components after scanning the exact copy and dimensions of the product.
"We have the coordinates measuring and mapping machine which can exactly measure and map any component, which can then be replicated and 3D printed as well," the technical expert at the lab explained. In due course of time, 3D metal printing facility at CICU would also be started, which would benefit the industry even more, Ahuja added..
