Former President A P J Abdul Kalam mooted on Monday a virtual platform connecting the academia, industry and researchers in the country and abroad to make conceptual designs of Aerospace and Automotive research and development, a reality.
"I am visualising a "Virtual Collaborative GRID for Aerospace and Automotive Research and development" to enable design (become) reality -- a product life cycle management framework that will enable India realise its vision for the manufacturing sector and become competitive in the defence and the commercial market of aerospace and automotive sector," Kalam said in Chennai.
He was interacting with employees at the Satyam Automotive and Aerospace Centre of Excellence in Chennai on Monday.
This GRID would need to connect the academia, industry, R&D laboratory in the country and abroad with high bandwidth network along