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IIT-Kharagpur has handed over to Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers Limited (GRSE) a new software that it developed to detect defects in welding from the radiography images taken of an object, a spokesperson of the institute said. Radiography testing is carried out to ascertain material integrity of welds, castings, piping and other machined parts. Doctoral Scholar Avishek Mukherjee, under the supervision of the chairperson of the institute's 'Centre of Excellence in Advanced Manufacturing Technology' (CoEAMT), Surjya K Pal, developed the software 'iWeld', employing artificial intelligence, the spokesperson said on Saturday. The software, tested over a large number of samples at GRSE, was found to provide results that were 93.18 per cent accurate, he said. It was last week handed over to GRSE, which functions under the ministry of defence, the spokesperson said. iWeld is likely to replace the need of skilled weld supervisors in near future, he added.
Start-ups in the space sector are working on software solutions for debris management in outer space, Science & Technology Minister Jitendra Singh said here on Wednesday. Singh, who chaired a meeting of all the science ministries and departments, said more than 50 start-ups were working in the space sector and 10 of them had a funding of Rs 50 crore or more individually. He said science ministries and departments concerned were on the job applying different scientific solutions for sectors such as agriculture, land mapping, dairy, food, education, skill, railways, roads, Jal Shakti, power, coal and sewage cleaning. An official statement quoted the minister as saying that joint working groups were being set up between science departments and line ministries to speed up identification of the scientific applications for proposals and problems faced by them. Singh said so far 38 ministries have sought technology support in different sectors and over 200 proposals/requirements have ...