ACECAM building technology centre with Rs. 150 m investment

ACECAM has announced that it has started building its own technology centre with a Rs. 150 million investment. It’s new open innovation laboratory and startup accelerator program is dedicated to nurturing and empowering customers and innovators to drive disruptive projects and transforming society.

With the technology lab, ACECAM is to give real time experience to its customers in latest design, simulation and manufacturing technologies that can transform how companies approach to do design, simulate and manufacture products and related processes. Also it will help selected startups that are developing physical products and processes capable of improving industries, life, cities and lifestyles, covering ideation, the Internet of Things, and to complete the physical fabrication by providing Fab-Lab. 

During a one to two year program for startups, will have access to Dassault Systèmes’ 3DEXPERIENCE platform, technical skills and mentoring to create digital experiences to optimise and validate their product and processes – the same content, technology, applications and expertise that have transformed the design, engineering and manufacturing of most of the products and services available today including aircrafts, auto-motives, ships, consumer electronics, apparels, robotics and industrial automation, power and energy those society rely on today. 

With the Technology Centre, ACECAM embraces the concept of the social enterprise and will draw upon its 10 years of expertise in digital design, simulation and manufacturing technologies to shape a new framework of open innovation for a more sustainable world. The Technology Centre merges collective intelligence with a cross-collaborative approach to foster entrepreneurship, bring new experiences to life and strengthen society’s future of creation.

“Many promising businesses and entrepreneurs are looking at the world with fresh eyes yet are forced to innovate in isolation, without having access to latest technologies and know-how to nurture, challenge, consolidate and validate their ideas, products and processes,” said ACECAM MD and CEO Eng. Ruwan Manchanayake. We believe in the powerful capabilities of our solution to help innovators to create disruptive experiences that can positively impact society. The technology centre gives greater resonance to our purpose within the collaborative economy by offering new ways of contributing to groundbreaking projects, revealing talents and creating new spaces for interaction, in addition to fostering an open, creative corporate culture.”

The technology centre is launching in parallel with the celebration of 10 years in continuous business performance of ACECAM, the company’s foundation dedicated to empower, innovate and transform projects in education, research and scientific knowledge at academic and research institutes, commercial industries and other general interest organisations throughout the country.