The participants will get exposure to three prominent areas: Design Thinking (DT), Smart Manufacturing (SM) and Incubation.
The details of each are given below.

Design Thinking

Design Thinking is a human-centred innovation process that brings designers’ principles, approaches, methods, and tools to problem finding and solving, and emphasises observation, collaboration, divergent and convergent thinking, visualisation of ideas and rapid concept prototyping. Overall, it fosters cognitive skills, behavioural skills, functional skills and technical skills. It is a way to bridge the gap between the current education system and the future requirements. Helping students think as designers can help them deal with difficult situations and solve complex problems in collage, in their careers, and life in general.

IISC is a unique design thinking process that is developed and validated by the researchers of esteemed university, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. IISC design thinking process consists of four, generic, iterative stages:

Stage 1: Identify Problems and Requirements
Stage 2: Ideate Solutions
Stage 3: Consolidate the Solutions into Tangible,
Testable and Effective Solutions
Stage 4: Select the Most Promising Solution

Salient features of the Design Thinking programme

• The programme uses a blended learning method in which students are given digital tool access to complement the design activities.
• The programme comprises both formative and summative evaluation frameworks.
• Students get exposure under the monitoring of mentors.
• The programme emphasis on conceptual understanding rather than rote learning.
• The programme in DT stimulates creativity and critical thinking to encourage logical decision-making and innovation.
• The programme helps imbibe human and constitutional values like empathy, scientific temper.
• It helps develop interpersonal communication, teamwork, collaboration skills.

Smart Manufacturing

Smart Manufacturing refers to the widespread digitization of all manufacturing practices, from the factory floor to all aspects of business. This includes product design, supply chain, production, distribution, and sales.

As pioneers of research in the area of Industry 4.0, we at IISc have developed this smart factory as a standardized and interconnected production facility that can be used as a demonstrator as well as an R&D Platform.

In this Smart Factory, we have two contrasting platforms. One is an automation-Intensive platform for high-value manufacturing to showcase what networked automation can offer. The other one is a labour-Intensive platform for high impact manufacturing that uses smart solutions to empower labour in the majority of MSMEs. Each of these platforms will collect data from all interconnected tools, people, processes, resources and environment, and analyse these using advanced data analytics to help manufacturers enhance productivity, quality, flexibility, safety and resource utilisation. This combination of both automation and labour intensive platforms is unique, and special to the IISc Smart Factory!

Smart Factory Program exposure areas:

• IIoT Solutions of Smart Manufacturing
• Digitalised Legacy Machines and connected factory
• Real-time dashboards for Smart Factory & MES
• Digital simulation of product design, process design, plant design
• Virtual factory and digital twin
• Physical Automation of manufacturing- AGV path planning

Incubation

Technology Business Incubators (TBIs) are recognised by different names such as technology/business incubators, innovation/technology centres, science/research/technology parks, and business/seed accelerators. TBI intends to help entrepreneurs by providing the expertise, networks, and tools to make their ventures successful. Incubation programmes diversify economies, commercialise technologies, create jobs and create wealth.

CPDMED-Technology Business Incubator is set up to identify, incubate and nurture Startups by facilitating the translation of technology ideas, designs and innovation in various disciplines of science and engineering into solutions in the area of Medical Technology and Geriatric Healthcare with regulatory compliance and commercialisation for the benefit of the society.

CPDMED is one of few MedTech incubators with attached Pre Compliance Testing Facilities and especially one among just a couple of incubators with state of the art Human Engineering Factor/ Usability Testing Facilities

Incubation Program exposure areas:

• Designers’ and Makers’ space
• Environmental, Mechanical Testing Facility and Medical Simulation
• Electromagnetic Interference/ Electromagnetic compatibility Facility
• Usability testing facility