This year the 58th Engineers’ Day will be celebrated all over the country on the theme “Deep Tech & Engineering Excellence: Driving India’s Techade".
Deep Tech is technology developed on the basis of scientific and engineering research in new areas providing new engineering devices, and machines to benefit the society in new areas. Technology includes product designs and processes to produce them.
I requested Dr,, P Sivasankaran to write a blog post with message to Industrial Engineers with Mechanical and Production Engineering Branch Foundation on this theme. The blog post published by the professor is available in the link.
I thank Dr. Sivasankaran. I request other industrial engineers with mech/production background to write their messages.
My post on the topic.
The theme, “Deep Tech & Engineering Excellence: Driving India’s Techade,” underscores the crucial role of engineers in steering discoveries and inventions all deep technologies in all branches of engineering (Digital transformation, AI, Sustainable automobiles, Quantum Computing, Semiconductors, Robotics, Advanced Materials, new-non renewable energy) toward national growth and global competitiveness.
As India enters its Techade, a decade in which importance is being given to deep tech, deep tech innovations are reshaping industries and redefining progress. Unlike conventional engineering solutions, these technologies demand long-term R&D, scientific rigor, and advanced engineering expertise. Recognizing this, the Government of India introduced the National Deep Tech Start-up Policy (NDTSP) in 2024 to support startups and researchers working on transformative technologies. The policy being implemented by the Government has to be used by academic institutions, research institutions, development organization and enterpreneurs to create a robust ecosystem where research translates into industrial applications. Engineers play a defining role in this shift.
By fostering research, bridging academia with industry, and nurturing talent, Institution of Engineers India (IEI) has positioned itself as a key enabler of India’s deep tech journey. As we mark Engineers’ Day 2025, it is evident that deep tech is no longer an emerging field—it is already avaibale in the present and has a great potentail for the future. The opportunity ahead is immense. Challenges accompany the opportunity.
With vision, expertise, and unwavering commitment, engineers must innovate, lead, and build technologies that will drive India’s transformation into a global powerhouse. And as always, IEI stands ready to support this mission, ensuring that India’s engineering community continues to push the boundaries of possibility.
Industrial engineers focus on cost reduction through productivity improvement. Cost reduction leads to rapid growth of deep tech products in global markets by facilitating price reductions.
Effective Industrial Engineering
Effective industrial engineering has to satisfy management about the contribution it made to the organization.
The prime contribution of IE has to be cost reduction through productivity improvement.
Productivity improvement is achieved through time reduction of capital assets and human resources and usage reduction of consumable items.
Reduction of machine time and man time have to be made through time studies. Time study was developed by F.W. Taylor to do this task. The purpose of time study is to measure the time taken being taken currently by each element of the task and study each element to find opportunities for time reduction. The time study includes time measurement (or work measurement) and analysis for drivers of time at element level. Later material studies to reduce consumption of consumable materials were developed. Inventory of material on the shop floor was the focus of reduction in Toyota and Toyota made great strides in productivity.
If the Time study is taken as the highest level task, it will have many lower level studies.
Machine Capabilities
Manpower capabilities
Method study
Motion study
Machine Appropriateness Study etc.
Industrial Engineers with Mechanical and Production Engineering Branch Foundation have to now focus on new deep technologies like smart CNC machines in various industries, Additive manufacturing machines, Machine Vision Inspection Systems, Automated Guided Vehicles, Robots and Cobots, Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems and Computerised scheduling systems to improve the processes using process chart approach.
Value stream as a focus of design and improvement was used by Japanese companies especially Toyota Motors and Womack and Jones provide the theory for the development of lean value streams. Industrial engineers have to develop value stream maps like process charts and related information sheets for value stream studies also. A value stream study map is available under the name VSM developed by Rather and Shook based on the chart used in Toyota.
Industrial engineers have to learn every technology that is being developed in mechanical and production engineering fields when they are associated with these branches and when they are in charge of productivity management of processes using these technologies.
Read for more details.
IE 4.0 - Industrial engineering of connected equipment instructed in real time by computers or cloud software systems.
Connected Equipment - Smart CNC machines in various industries, Additive manufacturing machines, Automated Guided Vehicles, Robots and Cobots, Automated Storage and Retrieval Systems and Computerised scheduling systems
Industrial Engineering 4.0 - IE in the Era of Industry 4.0 - Blog Book.
https://nraoiekc.blogspot.com/2017/12/industrial-engineering-40-ie-in-era-of.html
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