About us
Advanced Integrated Manufacturing and Management Research Group (AIMMRG) has research interest in interdisciplinary research areas, working across streams of engineering, health care and business management. The research group is led by a professional team of engineers and academicians who are producing innovative solutions in practice. AIMMRG Group is centred on the idea of helping people to communicate ideas and issues in various research fields through working groups. The AIMMRG group was started in August 2010 under the group head of Dr.Rajesh Ranganathan at Coimbatore Institute of Technology. This group's functionality is based upon the latest trends focused on engineering and technology.
The research group's projects are mainly the applied research / projects that hold a potential industrial application. The research activities within this group focuses upon Manufacturing Techniques & Systems, Design of heath care items, Lean and Agile Manufacturing, development and analysis of internal & external prosthesis, Business Process re-engineering etc. These activities include newly developed directions towards newest investigated technologies, such as Rapid Manufacturing, e-Manufacturing, RFID, Health care Management etc. The emerging and development of such technologies are the fundamental stone for the country's economical development.
Vision of the group is achieved by our professional expertise, application of innovative and advanced technologies, collaboration with industrial and academic partners World-wide. In short, AIMMRG is focused to bridge the gap between academics and industry, thereby enhancing consultancy capabilities.
Broadly our research can divided into the following areas:
Primary industrial sector
- Manufacturing
- IT
- Healthcare
- FMCG
Academic research areas
* Stock optimization
* Development of stock models
* Grouping of products
- Lead time reduction
- Strategic Planning
* Technological forecasting
- Decision support systems
- Product Customization
* Mass customization
* Body fitted customization
- Lean & agile manufacturing
- E- manufacturing / future manufacturing
- Rapid Prototyping / Rapid Manufacturing
- Design, development and analysis of internal & external prosthesis
- Health care management
- Design of health care equipments
- Business process re-engineering
Integrated areas of exploration
* Development of KPI's
* Lean information system
* Management of stock reserves
* Promotions management
* Development of customer retention program's
* Development of demand / forecast driven approaches
- KPI for supply chain improvements
- Logistics
* RFID
* Optimum routing
* Logistics information system
- Attracting new markets for SHINE
- Enhancing data reliability to sales
- Purchase optimization
* Developing purchase policy according to stock movements
* Reduction of non-value adds through efficient IT system support
- Expediting
- Retail shop floor management system
* Cubic space management
* Product display management
* Premium products management
* Product shelf life management
* Stock data management
* Product life cycle management
* B2B
* B2C
* B2G
- Supply chain information flow management
- Vendor Managed Inventory (VMI)
- Design for manufacture
- Product and process characterization for RP/RM
- Integral approach of RP and SCM
- Health care engineering
* External prosthesis
