The Southern India Electronic Industries Chamber (SIEIC) has brought together 15 Electronic System Design and Manufacturing (ESDM) companies to establish an Electronic Common Facility Centre (CFC) in Vellore district through the Union Ministry of Electronics.
SIEIC, which has more than 35 companies as members, has pooled in the 15 companies situated in places such as Vellore, Chennai and Bengaluru to set up the CFC, S. Nagarajan, president of SIEIC said
He said that they will be establishing the Electronic CFC at an outlay of Rs. 0.4 billion in two phases. In phase one, the focus of the centre will be on skill development, specifically targeted at developing electronics hardware manufacturing skill, research and development to promote electronic hardware manufacturing and an innovation centre to deal with engineering and design.
In phase 2, the focus would be on establishing advanced electroplating for electronic industries, he added.
He further mentioned that the CFC would help in accelerating entrepreneurship and promote supplier companies.
Vellore was identified as a Brownfield Electronic Manufacturing Cluster by the Union Ministry in 2014.
By Baishakhi Dutta
