They made us look beyond just a product, made us look like a platform. From just a product we went through a more comprehensive, more deeper approach that can place ERI in a different league altogether.."

G. B. Umesh

Founder and Managing Director,

ERI

The kind of learning we get, we go to a different level when we interact with IISc."

Madhav R. Badsheshi

Creative Engineer (Product Development),

ERI

After joining them, Mr. Yatish took an interview and found us suitable, thank God! We got a chance to work with IISc, SID and TIME². Our entire idea about robotics changed… we decided to give it a brain that can make it do more things. Then we found out that it is not a product that we are going to develop but a platform that will differ from company to company or customer to customer. That means we should develop the skill not the product. I realized that to develop skill we need good people. Naturally, now Professors are there, students are there... I sent engineers from my company ...their job was to learn from them. Now prototype is ready... and our concepts are clearer than our prototype!"

Shine Damodaran

CEO, Volga Instruments [NPDx 2017]

The credit goes to my colleague, who had an idea of developing new products ... not just an incremental increase in the value of a product. But a new product, which is positioned against the very big manufacturers in the world. We felt the need for looking at a technology that could position us to take a step like that. My colleague came across IISc. It was a great opportunity, and they grabbed it."

G. B. Umesh

Founder & Managing Director, ERI [NPDx 2017]

SID should be very selective in taking the companies - very much needed... the seriousness of the people who will take up the project with them. Capable of taking the technology to the market. Are they going to invest further and bring in more people. Because time is limited for them… If we hire the proper people and get our work done, what we can do is very clear to us"

Shine Damodaran

CEO, Volga Instruments [NPDx 2017]

Where TIME² helped us is, to be honest, they completely challenged us and didn't allow us to settle at what initially we thought was a very viable market. We opened up and said that - even for our size of industry - we could look beyond that and extend the possibility beyond just a product, almost like a platform, but would suggest the kind of innovation that took place. From just product, we went through a more comprehensive, more deeper approach that can place ERI in a different league altogether."

G. B. Umesh

Founder & Managing Director, ERI [NPDx 2017]

We got all the basic ideas from them. We refined it actually with our experience, and with an industrial outlook - because they are students, they don’t have that industrial outlook. They come up with brilliant ideas. But how to convert it into an industrial product, that we have to do, that’s our responsibility actually. It is not these student's responsibility, it is not even IISc’s responsibility, it's our responsibility to make it a successful industrial product, so that we will do. Thanks to SID. With IISc the entire idea of robotics has changed! Now that we got the idea, we will definitely be doing it."

Shine Damodaran

CEO, Volga Instruments [NPDX 2017]

It's a little too early to say... but it has changed the way we have to approach a product like this... we don't have all the answers but now we have an approach. We are now looking at a highway of innovation."

G. B. Umesh

Founder & Managing Director, ERI [NPDX 2017]