Product Development & Innovation centre (PDIC)

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Product Development & Innovation Centre (PDIC) was established in December 2014 as a centralized facility to support the development activities and work as a self-sufficient design house. PDIC caters to new product and sub-system development requirements of all the SBUs across all the Units and SBUs of BEL. PDIC is set up in a centralized air-conditioned five-storey building in 26 acres of land and can house 700+ engineers. 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.

PDIC 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 and bringing in standardization.

To enable the R&D engineers to innovate, PDIC is equipped with the latest hardware and software tools for design, 3D modelling, verification, documentation, etc. The innovation centre started its activities from the new facility from October 2018. The facility was formally inaugurated by Raksha Mantri, Shri Rajnath Singh, on September 19, 2019. PDIC engineers from 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 stand-alone products or can be used in development of larger systems or system-of-systems by various BEL business units.