About the Speaker

Amaresh Chakrabarti is a Senior Professor and current Chairman for Centre for Product Design & Manufacturing, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore. He has BE (Mechanical Engineering, IIEST Shibpur), ME (Mech Design, IISc) and PhD (Engineering Design, University of Cambridge UK). He led for 10 years the Design Synthesis group at EPSRC CoE Engineering Design Centre at University of Cambridge. His interests are in synthesis, creativity, sustainability, and informatics. He published 16 books, over 300 peer-reviewed articles, and has 11 patents granted/pending. He co-authored DRM, a methodology used widely as framework for design research. He has been Associate Editor, AI EDAM & Design Science Journal (Cambridge University Press), Area Editor, Research in Engineering Design, Regional Editor, Journal Re-manufacturing (Springer), and Advisory Editor for 7 Journals including Clean Tech & Env. Policy (Springer), and Journal of Engineering Design and International Journal Design Creativity & Innovation (T&F). He was on Advisory Board and Board of Management, Design Society; member, CII Design Council India; Jury, India Design Mark; invitee, CII Smart Manufacturing Council India. He founded IDeASLab – India's first Design Observatory. He is Programme chair for International Conference Series on Research into Design (ICoRD), 22nd CIRP Design Conf 2012, 3rd International Conference on Design Creativity 2015 (3rd ICDC) and vice-Chair for AI in Design and Design Computing & Cognition Conferences. He is an Honorary Fellow of Institution of Engineering Designers, the peer society under the UK Royal Charter in Engineering Design, and TUM Ambassador Awardee from TU Munich Germany. 16 of his papers won top paper awards in international conferences. He co-initiated India's first Smart Factory Lab. He also heads IISc-TCS Innovation Lab, IISc Press, and Springer International Book Series on Design Science & Innovation. He received Careers360 Faculty Research Award 2018 for being the 'Most Outstanding Researcher' in Decision Sciences. He is the current Editor-in-Chief for AI EDAM Journal (CUP).

Title of The Talk

Industry 4.0, Smart Factories, and their Implications for Product Development

Industry 4.0 (Industrie 4.0) is a term coined to describe the fourth Industrial Revolution, which promises connected intelligence across industry and its supply chains. The talk will explain the concept of Industry 4.0 in relation to the earlier industrial revolutions, including some of the work carried out at Centre for Product Design and Manufacturing (CPDM) at IISc Bangalore where India's first Smart Factory R&D platform has been initiated. The talk will then discuss about the opportunities this brings to new product development and innovation.