Real opportunity lies in connecting intelligent manufacturing with intelligent products: Dipesh Shah, Havells India

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For decades, the logic of industrial manufacturing was relatively straightforward. Engineering designed the product, the factory made it and the customer used it. The information generated at each stage rarely travelled far enough upstream to fundamentally alter the next product.

That model is beginning to look inadequate as software, sensors, artificial intelligence and electronics move deeper into physical products.

For Havells India, the more consequential technology question is no longer simply how to automate the factory or make an appliance smarter. It is whether engineering, manufacturing and product usage can become parts of one continuous learning system.

That is the direction Dipesh Shah, Executive President and CTO, Havells India, sees emerging from the company’s Centre for Research & Innovation. “AI is increasingly being embedded across this process to support design exploration, simulation and validation, enabling teams to evaluate possibilities faster, make more data-driven decisions and shorten development cycles without compromising...

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