BHEL plans collaboration with IITs to ramp up R&D activities

Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) is eyeing for collaborations with leading Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) to further scale up its research and development (R&D) efforts. Aimed at exploring potential collaborative areas for new technology and product development, BHEL recently organised an industry-academia meet at its corporate research & development (R&D) division at Hyderabad. Leading academicians from IITs at Kanpur, Delhi, Mumbai, Kharagpur, Roorkee, Guwahati, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Patna, Jodhpur, Bhubhaneswar and the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) participated in the meet and presented their areas of strength, possible synergy, nature of on-going research activities and relevance to BHEL. B Prasada Rao, CMD, BHEL stressed that the company's products have market dimensions with a focus on customer requirements and that R&D projects should align with market needs. BHEL offers around 180 products and there is a need to dovetail R&D activity with marketing efforts. He also mentioned that the country should have protection from cheap imports of inefficient finished goods and we must be able to produce technologically advanced and economically viable products. more at: http://www.business-standard.com/content/b2b-manufacturing-industry/bhel-plans-collaboration-with-iits-to-ramp-up-r-d-activities-114062300260_1.html