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Namaskar Everyone !!! This is Dr Amit Sata, and with him Mr Philip Gajera and Mr Pinal Kantesariya. They are the founders of innovative startup Udhyog 4.0 that mainly focuses on transformation of existing manufacturing enterprises into SMART manufacturing. This will be achieved by implementing indigenously developed modules including Process Monitoring, Data Management, SMART Inspection & Measurement Devices as well as Data Analytics. Let us discuss the working of these modules in brief. First innovative module of Udhyog 4.0 is Process Monitoring Module. This module tracks, measures and monitors entire process, purchase to dispatch, and from production to management level. This module is a combination of hardware and software in which hardware developed by team of Udhyog 4.0 will be embedded into existing machines, and connect the machines with internet through software for real time monitoring. This will further help in providing real time monitoring over dashboard or SMART devices. This module rejuvenates existing machine and transforms them into SMART Machine. Further, it measures and monitors the process parameters 24 by 7 without manual intervention. Second module, Data Management Module connects and manages the data collected from systems, sensors, machines and people like never before. This provides efficiency of man, machine and plant that further helps in computing capacity assessment and process planning in appropriate way. This module also provides synergic integration with quality conformance systems such as ISO Nine zero zero one, IATF one six nine four nine, AS Nine one zero zero, and ISO one seven zero two five. Third module comprises of one of the most innovative products, SMART measurement devices. These include devices for measuring softening point, and penetration of wax along with permeability & viscosity for mold material used in castings. These devices measure the quality of raw material using innovative concept of Industrial Internet of Things. This reduces the efforts of computation of test parameters and helps in recording as well as monitoring test parameters. One of the very critical modules developed by Udhyog 4.0 is Data Analytics System. The fourth module of Udhyog 4.0 is an outcome of several years of research conducted by Dr Amit Sata at Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and by the part of government funded research project SMART Foundry 2020. This module answers the questions: What will happen next? and, why it was happened? This module simply takes the data in the form of spreadsheet and suggests critical parameters along with specific range of values to achieve desired quality. The Data Analytics System plays very critical role in foundry and really helps in achieving quality through the concept of data analytics. Let us now discuss about the opportunities for implementing Udhyog 4.0 and its benefits to manufacturing industries. As we know Rajkot which is coincidently home town of founders, is one of largest growing manufacturing hubs of India and having more than 43000 manufacturing enterprises registered under MSME-India. These enterprises mainly include more than 700 sand casting foundries, 175 investment casting foundries, 500 forging units, and other manufacturing industries too. One of largest growing manufacturing sectors of Rajkot, Investment Casting Foundries, is taken into consideration for better illustrating the benefits of implementing different modules of Udhyog 4.0. Industrial survey of nearly 25% of investment casting foundries of Rajkot has been conducted to get an insight of their capabilities and challenges. It was observed that these foundries produce industrial castings of more than 4000 crores every year with manufacturing capacity of 600 plus metric ton of castings per year per foundry. However, nearly 200 crores of castings are rejected or recycled every year with an average rejection of nearly 5%. Implementation of different modules of Udhyog 4.0 in such investment casting foundries yield in reduction of rejection to nearly half, and can prove its impact on foundries. If modules of Udhyog 4.0 will be implemented to all investment casting foundries of Rajkot region then it may yield a direct benefit of nearly 100 crores excluding 50 crores of energy savings every year. This in turn an average benefit of more than 35 lacs per foundry every year. This will also indirectly enable the foundry to manufacture high valued castings for aerospace, defense, biomedical etcetera. One question will come in our mind: how much implementation of Udhyog 4.0 costs? The answer is that the transformation of existing foundry into SMART manufacturing can be possible at very affordable cost. This cost is equivalent to nearly 2.5% of its annual turnover for an average investment casting foundry producing 500 metric tons per year. This cost comprises development and implementation of process monitoring module that further provides real time monitoring of as many as 115 plus process parameters from existing machines to dashboard or smart devices. The cost also includes development and implementation of data management module, as well as data analytics module for specific foundry. This cost can easily be recovered in one year of span by reduction in rejection & consumption of energy. To summarize, Udhyog 4.0 rejuvenates traditional manufacturing and transforms them into SMART manufacturing enterprises at very affordable cost. This implementation can also be extended to 1.9 crores of MSME units in India including over 9 lacs of MSME units of Gujarat. It really leads in achieving philosophy of Make in India, and in turn lead to Atmanirbhar Bharat. We do have association for marketing our products in Gujarat with f cross b, 24 by 7 located in Rajkot, and heading by Mr Bharat Davda who has experience of more than 35 years in foundry industries. The novel implementation of Udhyog 4.0 is also appreciated by Government of Gujarat, and selected as one of the most innovative startups of Gujarat. With this, let us begin journey towards SMART manufacturing with Udhyog 4.0. Thanks !!