{"id":38054,"date":"2026-09-09T17:32:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T12:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gjepc.org\/solitaire\/?p=38054"},"modified":"2026-09-09T17:32:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T12:02:14","slug":"c4i4-team-explores-ai-industry-4-0-applications-at-iigj-mega-cfc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gjepc.org\/solitaire\/c4i4-team-explores-ai-industry-4-0-applications-at-iigj-mega-cfc\/","title":{"rendered":"C4i4 Team Explores AI, Industry 4.0 Applications at IIGJ, Mega CFC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre for Industry 4.0 (C4i4), Pune, which works with Indian manufacturers to support the adoption of advanced digital and smart manufacturing technologies, visited the Indian Institute of Gems &amp; Jewellery (IIGJ) and Mega Common Facility Centre (Mega CFC), Mumbai, on 8 September to explore applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Industry 4.0 in jewellery manufacturing and skilling.<\/p>\n<p>The C4i4 team comprised Dattatraya Navalgundkar, Bilal Ahmed and Sunil Bhatambrekar. At IIGJ, Siddhartha H., COO, GJEPC, provided an overview of the institute, while Dr. Anju Singh, Dean (Academics), IIGJ Mumbai, briefed the team on its curriculum and academic programmes. Koushik S.V., Head &#8211; Skill Development Division, IIGJ Udupi, shared details of skilling initiatives, including the PM Vishwakarma scheme and its relevance to artisans and traditional skills. Discussions also covered jewellery valuation programmes conducted for Customs and GST officials.<\/p>\n<p>Ravi Menon, CEO, Mega CFC, outlined the centre\u2019s establishment and facilities, while Mithilesh Pandey, Senior Director, GJEPC, briefed the delegation on cluster development initiatives and the role of common facilities in strengthening the jewellery manufacturing ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p>The visit focused on identifying opportunities to apply AI and Industry 4.0 technologies across jewellery manufacturing, skills development and cluster infrastructure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre for Industry 4.0 (C4i4), Pune, which works with Indian manufacturers to support the adoption of advanced digital and smart manufacturing technologies, visited the Indian Institute of Gems &amp; Jewellery (IIGJ) and Mega Common Facility Centre (Mega CFC), Mumbai, on 8 September to explore applications of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Industry 4.0 in jewellery&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38055,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83],"tags":[],"thb-sponsors":[],"class_list":["post-38054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bulletin"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v14.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>C4i4 Team Explores AI, Industry 4.0 Applications at IIGJ, Mega CFC - Solitaire magazine is a International jewellery magazine - India\u2019s leading B2B gem and jewellery magazine<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow\" \/>\n<meta name=\"googlebot\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta name=\"bingbot\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/gjepc.org\/solitaire\/c4i4-team-explores-ai-industry-4-0-applications-at-iigj-mega-cfc\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"C4i4 Team Explores AI, Industry 4.0 Applications at IIGJ, Mega CFC - Solitaire magazine is a International jewellery magazine - India\u2019s leading B2B gem and jewellery magazine\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Centre for Industry 4.0 (C4i4), Pune, which works with Indian manufacturers to support the adoption of advanced digital and smart manufacturing technologies, visited the Indian Institute of Gems &amp; 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