CHENNAI:
Dixon Technologies, one of India's largest contract electronics manufacturers, will establish a Centre of Excellence in Tamil Nadu dedicated to Industry 5.0 research and workforce training, according to a top Guidance official.
This comes after Dixon's Vice-Chairman Prithvi Vachani and Josh Foulger, chairman of the company's IT hardware and new projects division, met Chief Minister C Joseph Vijay to discuss the proposal, the official added.
The centre will focus on smart manufacturing, localised product development and applied research conducted jointly with academic institutions, a top Guidance Department official told TNIE.
The official said over the next five years, the CoE aims to accelerate smart manufacturing and localised product development, undertake more than 20 joint applied research projects, target 50 patent filings, and develop over 150 industry-ready ME engineers.
To a query on whether this is part of the earlier announcement of Dixon made during April last year, the official said this is a new announcement and further details will emerge later.
Dixon Technologies last year announced to establish a new electronics manufacturing facility at the Oragadam Industrial Park in Tamil Nadu’s Kanchipuram district with an investment of Rs 1,000 crore ($ 120 million), which is expected to generate around 5,000 jobs. The investment underscores the state’s growing prominence as a hardware production hub and this will support the production of laptops and all-in-one PCs.
The initiative signals continuity in that push under the new administration, with Dixon framing the centre as a vehicle for deeper industry-academia collaboration rather than a standalone facility.
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