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SME Times News Bureau | 25 Jan, 2020
Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan will inaugurate a Super Fab Lab,
an incubation centre and a Mini Fab Lab at Palakkad on Saturday.
The Super Fab Lab is based in Kochi and has been built in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
It
is billed as the world's first such facility to function outside of the
US and has been set up at the Kerala Startup Mission (KSUM) complex in
Kalamassery, near here.
It is expected to allow researchers, innovators and developers to do things beyond the purview of the state's existing fab labs.
KSUM
Chief Executive Officer Saji Gopinath said the Startup Mission's
collaboration with MIT will also allow Kerala's hardware startups to use
the Super Fab Lab and work with researchers of MIT's Centre for Bits
and Atoms on an MTM (Machine That Make) project.
"This explores
the possibility of using machines in a fab lab to create machines for
its own use. In essence, it creates a pathway to desktop manufacturing,"
said Gopinath.
Vijayan will inaugurate this by switching-on through remote control from Palakkad, located about 140 km from here.
Currently,
a standard community fab lab includes a laser-cutter, a sign-cutter, a
high-resolution NC milling machine, a large wood-router and a suite of
electronic components as well as programming tools for low-cost,
high-speed microcontrollers for on-site rapid circuit prototyping.
To
this, the super lab adds a set of highly-specialised machines that can
do small to mid-volume manufacturing and can also be used for
prototyping with a variety of materials including metals, composites and
carbon fibres, besides testing, design and fabrication equipment and
materials that cover length scales spanning from microns to meters in
fabrication size.
The function is being held at the Government
Polytechnic College, Palakkad, where Vijayan will perform the
ribbon-cutting of the two facilities (an incubation centre and a mini
fab lab) that will add to a Kerala-wide network of 20 such
establishments that allow students to learn digital fabrication.
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