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Wednesday, Apr 28, 2004
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Research & Development JK Tyre plans R&D centre at IIT Madras N. Ramakrishnan
Chennai , April 27 JK Tyre has signed an agreement with the IIT, Madras to set up a centre to carry out research on tyre mechanics. With an initial funding of Rs 1.5 crore, the facility - Centre of Excellence for Tyre and Vehicle Mechanics - is expected to start functioning from September. Over the next 3-4 years, the company will commit about Rs 5-7 crore to this centre. Dr R. Mukhopadhyay, Director (Research and Development), JK Tyre, told Business Line after signing the agreement on Tuesday that the centre will have supercomputing facilities that will help in simulation studies on tyre designing. This will considerably bring down the design cycle time of tyres. JK Tyre would provide the inputs to the centre, to be co-ordinated by Dr R. Krishna Kumar of IIT's mechanical engineering department, which would in turn build a data bank and use the data to conduct simulation and predictive studies. Under the agreement, the centre is required to publish papers in international technical journals to be peer reviewed so that Indian tyre manufacturers can showcase their capability to global auto giants. JK Tyre would continue with its research on rubber materials and provide the data to the centre, which would evaluate it. One of the objectives of the centre would be to integrate tyre design with vehicle design - a tyre that is designed for a particular vehicle and not a generic design. Dr Krishna Kumar said that JK Tyre's commitment to the centre would be one of the largest such sponsored research by the private sector among the IITs. Dr S. Srinivasa Murthy, Head of the mechanical engineering department, and Prof V. Kalyanaraman, Dean, Industrial Consultancy and Sponsored Research, said that IIT, Madras also hopes to set up a centre of excellence in automotive design to conduct research on subjects like engine design, alternate fuels, pollution and the like with participation by vehicle manufacturers.
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