Are there any manufacturers who, entering into educational innovation are able to transform the training actions to consequent manufacturing operations? Borne out of Scientific temper in Robotics and driving inspiration from participating at Institutional Techfests, Make it 3D, offering training workshops to young children in robotics manufacturing aims to give three-dimensions to Indian Additive Manufacturing.
With years of development and becoming the mainstream of manufacturing today, 3D printing, robotics and additive manufacturing has captivated the industrial imagination as reflected in the modern market trends which call it ‘the future of Industry 4.0’
Rather than the old school method of interpreting the 3D products using cardboards, with the ability to fabricate functionally and geometrically complicated. 3D designs into the industry ready product, Jinal Patel, proprietor, Make It 3D, speaks to Machine Maker about how ‘Make It 3D’ holds its ground in additive manufacturing from Prototyping to Industrial 3D printing in India.
Based out of Gandhinagar, Gujarat, Make it 3D has been in partnership with Jinal Patel, Janak Mevada and Het Patel for providing 3D printing, 3D modelling, and Prototyping services in India believing it to be the lucrative market in future.
From Rapid prototyping and Online 3D Printing to Design services, Make It 3D offers solutions that have their basis as reliability and innovation aiming to become hallmarks of industrial additive manufacturing and robots, the central figures of Industry 4.0.
India’s Robomation- Key to combat global competitiveness
Due to the large range of uses across the globe, Industrial robots with adaptive applications are now deployed to most of the industrial verticals. Indian Industrial Robotics market, which is expected to grow at 13.3% CAGR from 2019 to 2024, has recorded several investments scopes in robotics applications and additive manufacturing.
Major factors such as the call for precision making and process automation make robots and additive manufacturing one of the most indispensable aspects of the Indian Robotics Market.
Acknowledging the sturdiness to Industry’s base, which 3D printing offers, the company aims to extend robotics to different segments such as construction, automobiles and additive manufacturing. As such, setup takes time initially, but once set up, 3D printing offers a more robust base for robotics manufacturing. Speaking about the need for robotics for Indian Industries, Jinal remarks, “We need to build mastery on 3D printing technology and adopt Robotics technology to make India able to withstand the global competitive landscape in additive manufacturing.”
“The kinds of robots found in India, in the present context are somewhat of assembly-type but we firmly convict to bring some innovative ones for which we offer our 3D printing kits,” he adds talking about the goals of the Company concerning the Indian robotics industry.
Driving the Educational innovation
Through robotics, students build something on their own, preferably a tangible object which they can touch and perceive. Realizing this fact, with immense participation in the institutional tech fests the company offers training and assistance workshops to the young minds in robotics manufacturing.
Telling about how the company is adding value at the institute level, Jinal converses, “In our flock of products of additive manufacturing, we have scientific toys such as the three-in-one robot which consists of Obstacle Avoider, line follower and ARSI Controller modes along with Innovating Hand gestures bot for driving cars. Not only this, we are providing them with the requisite training to build their own.”
He further adds, “Robotics workshops not only for training and education purpose but also, earning the market presence to make our product alive in manufacturing.” The company has worked with Shriji Techno Aspire Pvt Ltd, a government of India approved eMarketplace to set up Atal Tinkering Laboratories in schools to foster design mindset, computational thinking, adaptive learning, physical computing among the young minds.
Make It 3D has rigorously managed to get funds from family support and savings, which has helped us to retain the innovation in 3D printing. Along with this, the company is planning to get timely support from Association for Harnessing Innovation and Entrepreneurship (ASHINE), a startup innovation club under the Research park SVNIT Surat.
Providing its 3D printing and design services on the Oxygen sensor product and Printing Circuit Board, during the pandemic, the emerging 3D printing manufacturers is into the diverse participation at the institutional tech fests, as seen in its participation in Robotic Competition at DRISHTI, institutional technical club and at the MINDBEND, Gujarat’s biggest techno-managerial fest showing its state-of-art ARSI Robotic plane.
With the future outlook to introduce SLA and SLS 3D printers on the shop floor, the company is currently working with the FDM printer. “We aim to bring the innovation and awareness additive manufacturing and robotics especially, awareness for prototyping so that 3D Printing and Design can be implemented with priority to understanding the need of prototyping,” Jinal concludes on the company’s vision and mission for the Indian Robotics and Additive Manufacturing.
