Product Development & Innovation centre (PD&IC)
Product Development & Innovation Centre (PD&IC) is a Centre of Excellence (CoE) established in December 2014 as a centralized facility to cater for new product / sub-system development requirements of all the SBUs / Units of BEL. With the formation of PD&IC, after phased merger of Central D&E, the 3-tier R&D is re-structured as CRL, PD&IC and SBU / Unit D&Es. PD&IC is involved in design & development of state-of-the-art technology modules and sub-systems through continuous innovation, ensuring high value-addition leading to self-reliance through adaptation of current technologies to bring in new products to address BEL’s business needs. Multi-disciplinary resources in a single location with required infrastructure ensures effective development, avoiding duplication of design and bringing in standardization.
PD&IC is setup in a centralized air-conditioned five-storey building in 26 acre land adjacent to CRL, Bangalore, and can house about 700+ engineers. To support the development activities and work as a self-sufficient design house, major infrastructure for prototyping, testing and design validation, such as EMI/EMC lab, ESS labs, Rate Tables, Clean Rooms, etc are part of the in-house facilities. The other general facilities include a 250 seat Auditorium, multiple conference halls, Canteen, Display halls and Admin offices. To enable the R&D engineers to innovate, PD&IC is equipped with the latest hardware and software tools for design, 3D modeling, verification, documentation, etc.
Development activities started from the new location since end October 2018. PD&IC engineers with various domains of engineering viz. electronics, mechanical, computer science, electrical & optics, collaborate to design, develop, prototype and generate necessary manufacturing documents for modules, products and sub-systems which can be marketed as standalone products or can be used in development of larger systems or system-of-systems by BEL business units.
Number of people working at PDIC: 271
Product Development & Innovation Centre is formed to achieve the following:
- Create an environment with focus on In-house Product Development and benchmarking with World Class Products.
- IPR creation in strategic areas.
- Lesser external dependence for critical sub-systems and standardization of sub-systems.
- Increasing offset opportunities.
- Strengthening ToT process and building over the expertise.
- Strengthening collaborative design efforts.
- Single window agency for vendor development of common items across the company.
The technology verticals of PD&IC are in the area of:
- Electro Optics, Lasers & Stabilization platforms
- Telecommunication, Radio Communication & Satellite Communication
- RF Components
- Microwave Components
- MMICs
- Embedded Systems
- Radar Signal Processing
- Navigation & Sonar systems
- Power Electronics
Further, to provide more emphasis on innovation, eight innovation cells addressing the various technologies have been formed within PD&IC. Apart from this, Centre-Of-Excellences in the area of Radar & Weapon Systems, Communication and Electro-optics & Lasers are under formation within PD&IC.
Thus far PD&IC has filed about 113 patents and presented about 115 technical papers in various conferences and seminars.
Contact:
Mr S Naresh Kumar
General Manager (PDIC),
Bharat Electronics Limited,
Jalahalli Post, Bangalore – 560013.
- +91 80 28381431
- +91 80 28381879
- nareshkumars[at]bel[dot]co[dot]in
