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Ashok Kadsur, Co-Founder, Melento (formerly SignDesk), in conversation with Efficient Manufacturing Magazine Q. Why do fragmented workflows and manual approvals remain a major bottleneck in manufacturing, despite years of digital transformation? Most digital transformation digitises forms, not decisions. Manufacturing still runs on siloed systems, email chains, and human checkpoints that don’t talk to each other. The workflow is digital, but the intelligence isn’t. Fragmentation persists because systems automate steps, not outcomes. Until decisions become contextual, connected, and accountable across plants and partners, manual approvals will continue to throttle operational speed. Q. How does Melento’s collaborative intelligence model balance AI-driven speed…

… Rajesh Shah, MD of Euro Panel Products, in conversation with Efficient Manufacturing Magazine. Q: Infrastructure development increasingly operates under strict regulatory and safety frameworks. How is Euro Panel Products investing in advanced manufacturing technologies, in-house capabilities, and compliance standards to ensure its products remain future-ready as regulations and project specifications evolve toward 2026? At Eurobond, we view the tightening regulatory landscape as a catalyst for modernisation. To ensure we are future-ready, we have expanded our infrastructure and in-house capabilities with a focus on self-reliance, quality and precision. Our primary strategy is backwards integration for total quality control. We recently…

… by Balasubramanian A, Senior Vice President, TeamLease Services Indian manufacturing is absorbing one of its sharpest external shocks in recent years. Nearly 30% of textile and apparel exports are tied to the United States, where tariffs now climb to as high as 50% on most products. Auto components, which account for 27% of exports to the same market, face duties of 25%, while capital goods shipments face effective tariff rates of 25% to 50%, depending on product classification. These pressures are no longer distant trade metrics. They are already influencing working hours, wage structures, and hiring decisions across factory…

KPIT Technologies, a global leader in mobility technology solutions, today announced a strategic research collaboration with IIT Bombay, one of the world’s leading technology institutions, to create an industry‑ready research ecosystem that bridges academic excellence with real‑world engineering and product development needs in the automotive & mobility space. The collaboration will focus on AI and tap into it for research and solutioning. The collaboration was formalised through the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) at IIT Bombay and is aimed at aligning master’s and doctoral research programs with contemporary and future mobility problem statements, accelerating the journey from laboratory…

Collaboration unlocks new real-time, efficient and class-leading AI solutions for robotic lawn mowers STIGA S.p.A., the leading European manufacturer and distributor of garden machinery and equipment, and SiMa Technologies Inc., the Physical AI company, today announced a strategic partnership to bring AI-powered solutions to robotic lawn mowers. STIGA will lead the industry with real-time decision-making on an ultra-low-latency and power-draw platform from SiMa, providing a scalable solution architecture for all robotic lawn mower products — domestic and commercial. STIGA has established itself as a leader in lawn and garden technology, known for combining engineering excellence with practical, user-friendly design. From…

60,000 sq. ft. Integrated Facility to Accelerate Full-Scale e200X Prototype Production; Inaugurated by Prof. V. Kamakoti, Director, IIT Madras Key Highlights The ePlane Company (Ubifly Technologies Pvt. Ltd.), India’s pioneer in electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) technology, announced the opening of its state-of-the-art prototyping and testing facility at the IIT Madras Discovery Campus in Thaiyur. Spanning 60,000 sq. ft., the site is the nation’s first integrated plant dedicated to the serial production of electric aircraft, signaling a pivotal shift in India’s Urban Air Mobility (UAM) sector from initial design concepts & subscale prototypes to flight-ready hardware and certification-grade fullscale…

Manufacturing next-generation solar panels could cut global carbon emissions by up to 8.2 billion tonnes by 2035, finds a new international study by researchers from the University of Warwick and Northumbria, Birmingham, and Oxford Universities. Solar panels, known scientifically as photovoltaics (PV), convert sunlight directly into electricity and are central to global decarbonisation. But as countries race to deploy solar at multi-terawatt scale, the carbon footprint of manufacturing these devices is coming under increasing scrutiny. At the same time, the industry is rapidly shifting from the current industry-standard design, passivated emitter rear cell (PERC), to a newer and more efficient…

Simulation integration strengthens OSAT manufacturing quality, reliability, speed-to-market Kaynes Semicon, a flagship OSAT (Outsourced Semiconductor Assembly and Testing) initiative of Kaynes Technology India, today announced its strategic adoption of Synopsys’ engineering simulation software through the Ansys Channel Partner program with Infinipoint Technologies, an Ansys Elite Channel Partner who delivers advanced engineering, simulation, and electronic design solutions. In India’s rapidly evolving semiconductor ecosystem, the implementation will boost its manufacturing quality, reliability, and technological leadership. Kaynes Semicon, as part of this engagement, has integrated Synopsys’ Multiphysics simulation tools into its cutting-edge R&D and production workflows at its state-of-the-art Sanand facility. From concept…

The event concluded with a grand finale and felicitation at Dr Vishwanath Karad MIT-WPU, Pune Mitsubishi Electric India, a global leader in Electric & Electronic Equipment, announced the winners of the 6th Mitsubishi Electric Cup on Saturday, 21st February 2026. The two-day National Level Automation Competition, returning after a five-year gap post Covid, saw 35 teams compete on the theme ‘Automating the World through Digital Innovation’. Organised annually, the competition challenges engineering students to design, build, and demonstrate innovative working models using Mitsubishi Electric factory automation technologies. The virtual registration for the 6th Mitsubishi Electric Cup began in July 2025…

… by Kartik Narayan, CEO- Jobs Marketplace, Apna.co For much of the past decade, India’s manufacturing revival has been discussed in terms of capital. New factories, larger plants, better logistics, and policy support through incentives have shaped the narrative. The numbers back this up. Manufacturing output expanded by over 4% in FY25, and purchasing managers’ indices stayed in expansion despite a volatile global backdrop. That phase has largely run its course. As India pushes to raise manufacturing’s share of GDP to 25%, the constraint is no longer capacity. It is labour. More precisely, it is how manufacturing thinks about labour.…