Fifth Generation Technologies, a multi-national research and innovation company with specialisation in building “real time intelligence” solutions and products to the manufacturing industry, has entered into an agreement with Anna University, Chennai, for conducting research to arrive at a useful prediction of the remaining life of critical equipment that are working in high temperature environments.

• The company proposes to invite one of its clients who are global industry leaders and original equipment manufacturers of such critical equipment to participate in this research. “We wish to involve the user industry from the beginning of this research and make them participate as an integral member of our team so that the time to practical value of this research can be minimized”, says Sumitra Seshan, Chief Executive Officer, Fifth Generation.

•  “The research is a unique attempt to use physics in three areas — creep, fatigue and corrosion — to arrive at a prediction of remaining life of critical equipment exposed to high temperature thermal cycles”, says K.A. Padmanabhan, a Principal Mentor of this research work.

• The research work shall be conducted by a Ph.D scholar who shall, apart from being financially supported by 5G, seek funding under the PM Fellowship Scheme for Doctoral Research, according to a company release.

• The proposed research shall be performed under the auspices of the Centre for Technology Development and Transfer (CTDT), which has been set up by Anna University for encouraging synergies and technology transfers between the industry and the academia.