Plugin Alliance: Making Industries Intelligent
Plugin Alliance Overview
Plugin, one of the most coveted startup accelerator programs in the country has achieved its objectives over the last few years in creating a large impact in the ecosystem. We now believe the time has come for Indian industries needs to realize the benefits of technology, leapfrog on impact and come together on one forum, contributing and collaborating on innovation and adoption.
To address this need, the program has now been expanded to Plugin Alliance, the first-of-its-kind Industry Technology Alliance in India with a mission to provide an open collaborative framework for the ecosystem to nurture innovation and accelerate adoption of smart industry solutions enhancing the global competitiveness of the Indian industries.
The Alliance has been founded by Intel India in collaboration with Society for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (SINE), IIT-Bombay, and will drive sustainable, inclusive, innovation-led growth to make industries intelligent. The Alliance will focus on increasing awareness, collaborate to innovate, accelerate the startups, adopt the solutions and finally scale the solutions in the industry.
Constituent Members
Consumption Members
Enterprise & SME’s across industrial sectors.
Solutioning and Scale Members
Hardware ODM’s, Product OEM’s, System Integrators.
Startup Ecosystem Members
Consulates, funding agencies, incubators & accelerators, like-minded ecosystems in other geos.
Startups
Startups with validated, deployable and scalable solutions.
Vision Statement
To provide an open collaborative framework for the ecosystem to nurture innovation and accelerate adoption of smart industry solutions enhancing global competitiveness.
Alliance Focus Areas | Sectors, Solutions, Technologies
Sectors
- Discrete Manufacturing
- Process & Batch Manufacturing
- Warehousing
- Transportation
- Utilities
Solutions
- Machine Condition Monitoring
- Asset & Operations Optimization
- Logistics & Tracking
- Interactive Displays for Factory Visualization
- Situational Monitoring
- Energy Monitoring & Management
- Environmental Monitoring
- Product Inspection
- Human Wellness Monitoring
- Control Optimization & Autonomy
Technologies
- Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Vision
- AR/VR
- Robotics
- Cyber Security
- 5G & Edge
- ADAS & Mobility
Operating Framework of the Alliance
Awareness
Increase awareness & attract stakeholders to the need and benefits Industry 4.0 technologies.
Collaborate
Create the right ecosystem and innovation capacity to identify and explore current and future industry 4.0 solutions.
Accelerate
Accelerate startups and ecosystem to develop market ready solutions with current and future technologies.
Adopt
Enable adoption of industry 4.0 solutions across enterprise and MSME’s.
Scale
Build India as a brand for industry 4.0 solution ecosystem and enhance attractiveness of Indian manufacturing.
Illustrative List of Alliance Members
Visit the Plugin Alliance website to join as an Alliance Member for actionable outcomes
Benefits for Alliance Members
Explore
Access to both local and global validated solutions, reduce time to implement innovations.
Collaborate
Intra and inter industry collaboration along with technology collaboration across focus areas.
Adopt
Improved workflows, efficiencies and improvements in TCO & adopt technologies which has business impact.
Eligibility Criteria for Startups to Join as Alliance Members
- The startup must have solution(s) which fall under the sector, solution and technology focus area as defined by the Alliance
- The startup should have at least two paid deployments (different customers)
- You are ready and capable for scale deployments
- The startup should be funded / have a sufficient revenue stream
Note, all applications (mostly through referrals) from startups will be accepted to come onboard as members of the Alliance. The Program Office will setup time with other Alliance Members to understand the startup’s value proposition and capabilities.
Benefits for Startups Joining as Alliance Members
Access to Customers
Connect with potential customers for validation and pilots.
Access to domain experts from Enterprises.
Access to untapped local and global markets (MSME, SMB, Enterprises).
Customer references and testimonials.
Scale Readiness
Collaboration with scale partners and peers for standard solution bundling.
Collaborate with technology & business experts from the ecosystem.
Building credible and validated industry solutions.
Evolving business models for unserved markets (local and global).
Visibility
Hosting of solutions on Alliance marketplace.
Visibility to leadership across local and global ecosystem.
Access to Alliance led events, media coverage, industry events, etc.
Illustrative List of Alliance Member Startups Offering Smart Industrial Solutions
For more details on Plugin Alliance, Plugin Accelerator, members, solutions and other related information, kindly visit the Plugin Alliance website
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