BHUBANESWAR: KIIT University today launched a centre for building competence in product lifecycle management (PLM) in collaboration with Dassault Systems (DS) to start a two-year MBA programme in technology management.
The new learning centre will also have a ‘DS-KIIT PLM Chair’ for consultancy and research in innovative management skills which is second in the world and the first in Asia-Pacific region.
With an intake capacity of 30, the competence building centre will help students realise real-life situations in manufacturing, product designing and detailing, marketing and social innovation ideas with three-dimensional solutions from DS, a Fortune 500 company of France with an Indian subsidiary.
Speaking on the occasion, president, DS (India), Andy Kalambi said as many companies world over are using the PLM solutions, the students will have the opportunity to become efficient managers with critical decision-making skills to improve productivity by learning various steps to develop models of modern manufacturing methods. In other words, companies will find these students worth recruiting as the new-age learners would be saving both time and costs through PLM applications and their utility.
The new facility will have the latest DS computing facilities and can also help deserving students in getting more exposure at advance centres across the world, Kalambi added.
The passing out students can get placement in automobile, consumer goods, industrial equipment, high-tech electronic goods, power and energy, ship building, aerospace, packaging, IT and ITES, jewellery, infrastructure management and apparel industries.
The centre was inaugurated by Minister of State for IT and Science and Technology Ramesh Chandra Majhi.
KIIT Group of Institutions founder Achyuta Samanta said the new centre would address the needs of skilled and trained workforce in manufacturing and engineering sector in the country and it will also have research facility.
The proposed ‘DS-KIIT PLM Chair’ will work on societal use of the new-age technologies, research and helping State-sponsored projects in having good infrastructure development and also in proposing ‘group of concepts’ for them. It will also help in developing curriculum for the PLM students.