Smart Factory for Sustainable Growth | GDCTech 2024
Great Die Cast Technology Forum is a Special Interest Group for Die Casting Technology businesses formed by a small group of enthusiastic and dedicated people from the Industry, Defence Establishments and R&D Organisations. The group has, over a period of time, gained strength and momentum, and has become a niche forum focusing on cutting edge topics and themes for the Die Casting Industry.
GDCTech's flagship event for 2024 was on the theme "Smart Factory for Sustainable Growth". As a part of this flagship event, there were a series of 5 topics under the theme.
Uday Sankar Yerramilli, our Co-Founder & Director was invited to moderate the Panel Discussion on the topic "Die Casting Technologies in New Mobility". The panel comprised eminent personalities from Automotive, Auto-Components, Non-Automotive and the Academia.
The Panel Discussion started with setting the context on the Future of Mobility, the emerging trends and the implications for the Die Casting Industry. From here, it moved into the priorities for the Die Casting Industry both from the OEM's perspective as well as the Die Casting Suppliers' perspective, talking about the key technologies emerging on the Process, Materials as well as Product & Market front. This included aspects like Gigacastings, focus on weight reduction, emergence of advanced alloys, R&D being done at the Die Casting Suppliers' end, Government policy perspectives, etc. This also touched upon the conundrum for the Die Casting Industry players in terms of invest first for technology or get the orders first from OEMs to enable investments. The talk ended with a dialogue on Sustainability and its criticality and influence in shaping the future trends and how the Die Casting Industry has to respond to it.