Ministry of Heavy Industries (MHI) under the Scheme for “Enhancement of Competitiveness in the Indian Capital Goods Sector” has set up 4 Smart Advanced Manufacturing and Rapid Transformation Hub (SAMARTH) Centres namely:

1. Centre for Industry 4.0 (C4i4) Lab, Pune;
2. IITD-AIA Foundation for Smart Manufacturing, IIT Delhi;
3. I-4.0 India @ IISc, Bengaluru; and
4. Smart Manufacturing Demo & Development Cell, CMTI, Bengaluru.

Further, 10 cluster Industry 4.0 experience centres have been approved under the Hub and Spoke model to be established across India by Centre for Industry 4.0 (C4i4) Lab, Pune. The key achievements of the SAMARTH Centres are as given below:

1. Development of Industry 4.0 solutions enabled Model Factory by C4i4, Pune and a production based Smart factory by CMTI Bengaluru;
2. Over 50 use-cases of Industry 4.0 solutions were compiled for implementation support by C4i4, Pune;
3. Development of Industry 4.0 Maturity & Readiness assessment tool called Industry 4.0 Maturity Model (I4MM) specific for Indian manufacturing companies.  Under this program, C4i4 has conducted assessment of several manufacturing industries;
4. C4i4 Lab, Pune launched ‘Free Online Assessment Tool’ for self-assessment purpose to help the MSMEs to understand their maturity level in their Industry 4.0 journey in order to accelerate the adoption of Industry 4.0;
5. Over 100 Digital Maturity Assessments completed for Auto Companies; 500+ Improvement initiatives identified for industry; 500+ Digital Champions trained on Industry 4.0 by C4i4 Lab, Pune;
6. 6 Smart Technologies, 5 Smart Tools, 14 solutions developed by I-4.0 India @ IISc, Bengaluru;
7. CMTI Bengaluru trained about 5000 professionals on Smart Manufacturing & Industry 4.0;
8. IITD-AIA Foundation for Smart Manufacturing has collaborated with academic institutions to drive innovation in Industry 4.0 technologies tailored for MSMEs.

SAMARTH Centres have been providing assistance to industries including MSMEs to train the workforce and make them aware about Industry 4.0 technologies in the following ways:

1. Organizing Awareness Seminars/ Workshops and knowledge sharing events on Industry 4.0;
2. Training industries to create awareness about Industry 4.0;
3.  Providing consultancy (in areas such as IOT Hardware, Software development, data analytics) and incubation support to start- ups including MSMEs.

No financial assistance is given to any industry including MSME for adopting Industry 4.0 enabled technologies under SAMARTH centre initiative of the Scheme.

This information was given by the Minister of State for Heavy Industries and Steel, Shri Bhupathiraju Srinivasa Varma in a written reply in the Rajya Sabha today.

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