The “National Strategy on Additive Manufacturing” was announced by Ashwini Vaishnaw, Union Minister of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY), Communications & Railways, and Rajeev Chandrasekhar, Minister of State for Electronics & Information Technology, Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, to cater to next-generation digital manufacturing and to mitigate immediate disabilities of local industries.
“The Genesis of the National Strategy in India revealed by the government is to keep pace with rapid global manufacturing prowess. For this, India needs to adopt an integrated approach to additive manufacturing in all segments including defence and public sectors, especially within the nation’s small, medium and large-scale industries,” said MeitY.
The National Strategy on Additive Manufacturing (AM) will aim to create a conducive ecosystem for design, development, and deployment, as well as to overcome technical and economic barriers for global AM leaders to set up operations in India with supporting ancillaries, allowing the domestic market to grow.
The ministry went on to say that increasing global market share is also important.
The key goals of the government include positioning India as a global hub for Additive Manufacturing development and deployment, create and protect the integrity of India’s AM intellectual properties.
The mission is to ensure creation of a sustainable ecosystem for the AM industry to compete globally, encourage AM transformation and driving capabilities in the country for developing core competencies, position India as a global Innovation and Research hub for Additive Manufacturing, ensure AM manufactured end-user functional components for domestic and export markets, promote creation of Indian IPR and ensure adequate measures for the protection of AM technology.
The government believes that through digital processes, communication, imaging, architecture, and engineering, Additive Manufacturing (AM) has enormous potential to revolutionise India’s manufacturing and industrial production landscape. With the release of the Strategy by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, the innovation and R&D ecosystem will be encouraged in a public-private partnership model to transform existing research knowledgebase into Additive Manufacturing grade materials, 3D printer machines, and printed indigenous products for a wide range of domestic and international markets in sectors such as electronics, photonics, medical devices, agro and food processing, and so on.
