Schedule

Inaugural Session

8:45 – 9:30 am – Registration

9:30 – 11:00 am – Inaugural Session

Session 1 – Strategic Roadmap to drive India’s Competitiveness in Fabrication & Manufacturing

From Collaborative Leadership in Industry Ecosystems to adoption of Automation, how manufacturing leaders chart the way?

11:00 am – 12:30 pm

Session 2 – Driving Innovations in Welding & Manufacturing : Technology, Material, Process, Inspection

Focus on how innovations in any of the 4 domains have brought success or hold potential for success in the industry and how academia is helping the industry through their research.

12:30 pm – 1:30 pm

Session 3 – Sustainability and Quality Assurance in Welding: Competency Challenges of Manufacturing Organisations

Lean, ZED, 6 Sigma, Codes & Standards – Challenges in implementing them and ways to overcome it.

2:45 pm – 4:00 pm

Session 4 / Panel Discussion – Leadership Insight: Future-Proofing Competency in India’s Welding Workforce

The focus is on how to overcome the bottlenecks in promoting cobots or do-bots. Is skilling the only issue? What Industry and Academia can together do?.

4:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Valedictory Session & Vote of Thanks

5:00 pm – 5:15 pm