ITAMMA hosts BK Mehta Technology Networking Mission 2023 in Coimbatore

Members of ITAMMA shared several informative and useful suggestions.

Indian Textile Accessories and Machinery Manufacture Association (ITAMMA), in association with the BK Mehta Endowment Fund, organised BK Mehta Technology Networking Mission 2023 at Coimbatore.

The first session of the event started with a documentary film of the luminary BK Mehta highlighting his yeoman services to the cause of the textile engineering industry in general and ITAMMA in particular.

Industry Experts like Dr B Vinod, Head-Robotics and Automation Engineering, PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore informed that, “G20 initiatives will take India from developing to developed country. Drones are planned to be used as logistic -relay from Bengaluru to New Delhi. He gave information on the system mapping of a person.” Dr Vinod mentioned about 60+ robotic companies in Coimbatore whereby 12 PSG Students working on these projects.

Dr Shanmugavasan, Managing Director, KOB Textiles, Coimbatore, spoke on the need for innovation led technological developments and the current ecosystem to achieve the vision of Atmanirbhar Bharat. He insisted upon that Innovation need to be considered in the Curriculum activity

Ganesh Rajgopal, Founder of Sambuq.com India asked whether digitalisation subject can be involved in curriculum activity or during internship students who were shortlisted from the following colleges presented their innovative projects to the experts’ panel.

The second session was a physical session for students of PSG &KCT while virtual for students of DKTE Society’s Textile & Engg Institute in presence of Industry Experts at the venue. Students of DKTE presented two projects with first being the ‘Studies on paper produced by sustainable fibres.’ The second project was on ‘Cold pad batch dyeing of cotton fabric with reactive dyes by using ultrasonic energy.

The students of Kumaraguru College of Tech Coimbatore (KCT), also presented two projects. The presentations were on ‘Design and Development of Air Filter to reduce emission in diesel Engine,’ and ‘All weather Good Quality Clothing for troops.’

PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, presented a project on ‘Development of Aerogel Embedded Nonwovens from Recycled Fibres for Thermal Insulation Applications,’ and ‘Development of Heating Pad Using Conductive Polymer Coating on Bamboo Fabric.’

In the third session, all the experts present for the first session gave feedback to the students on how to take their projects to the next stage.  ITAMMA member organisations also participated in this session and were briefed about the projects and these experts offered their valuable insights to the students.

Dr Saatish Lavate,Faculty, Department of Textiles, DKTEs Textile and Engineering Institute, Ichalkaranji—was also present virtually to give his inputs and suggestions. S Senthil Kumar-Past President, ITAMMA gave useful information and guidance on the bamboo fibre project to the student. N D Mhatre, Director General (Tech), ITAMMA had several informative and useful suggestions for all students present.