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Transforming innovative ideas into market-ready products requires seamless coordination between design, validation, and manufacturing. This session explores how smart product design, CAE integration, and DFMA principles reduce cost and complexity while improving manufacturability. Experts will also discuss additive manufacturing, rapid prototyping, and strategies for protecting innovation through patents, copyrights, and trademarks. The session provides a complete roadmap for accelerating product development while ensuring production readiness and commercial success.
Manufacturing is undergoing a major transformation driven by automation, robotics, and data-driven intelligence. This session highlights smart factory strategies that integrate machines, sensors, and digital systems to improve productivity and flexibility. Topics include advanced industrial robotics, AI- powered inspection and process control, scalable automation for MSMEs, and the growing role of collaborative robots. The session also addresses workforce transformation and the new skills required in an automated manufacturing environment
Tooling quality forms the backbone of consistent and defect-free moulding operations. This session focuses on precision tool design, advanced machining and finishing technologies, maintenance strategies, and the selection of tool steels and treatments. Industry leaders will discuss how Indian tool rooms can adopt modern digital practices, improve productivity, and meet international quality standards. The discussion will also highlight emerging opportunities for Indian tooling companies in domestic and global markets.
Advanced polymer materials are playing a crucial role in building lighter, stronger, and more energy-efficient products across industries. This session explores the evolution from commodity plastics to engineering polymers, high-performance materials, and composite technologies. Experts will discuss how these materials contribute to lightweighting, durability, and improved lifecycle performance while supporting sustainability goals. The session also highlights how composite materials are enabling innovative engineering solutions in automotive, infrastructure, and industrial applications.
The global shift toward a circular economy is opening new business models and technology pathways in plastics and polymers. This session examines advanced recycling technologies, circular product design, biodegradable and bio-based polymers, and the financial and regulatory drivers supporting sustainable growth. Industry experts will share insights on how companies can convert environmental responsibility into profitable opportunities while meeting evolving market and policy expectations.
India’s plastics industry is increasingly integrated into global value chains, creating new opportunities for exports and strategic import substitution. This session explores global demand trends, MSME readiness for international markets, and export opportunities in engineering plastics and value-added products. Trade experts will also address compliance requirements, logistics, trade agreements, and sector-specific insights including the toy industry’s export–import landscape.
As the automotive sector moves rapidly toward electric mobility, lightweighting, and globally integrated supply chains, quality expectations for engineering and plastic components are rising significantly. This session brings together OEMs, Tier suppliers, testing agencies, and quality experts to discuss global standards, defect prevention strategies, validation protocols, and compliance systems. Participants will gain insights into achieving zero-defect manufacturing, improving process capability, and meeting the evolving demands of automotive customers worldwide.