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ipro 3D was started in 2012 with this Ajay led the design, implementation and
conviction. Wipro 3D is a part of Wipro’s reorganization of the global workforce talent “
Wstrategic initiative into the future of management system, during his earlier stint with
manufacturing. Since its inception, Wipro 3D has Wipro. He leads Ops Transformation as head of
quickly grown into a leading provider of metal India Heritage Foundation that manages the world’s
Additive Manufacturing Solutions and Services to largest free meal program (Akshaya Patra) for
the Aerospace, Space, Defence, Industrial & Tooling, underprivileged children.
Heavy Engineering, Healthcare, Automotive, and
Nuclear sectors. Wipro Is Active In 3D Printing
We offer Additive Manufacturing Consulting and
Adaption Services, Additive Engineering Services, Additive Manufacturing and related know-how is
Additive Manufacturing, Research & Development going to play a dominant role in how we conceive,
Solutions as well as Design, Deployment and design, produce and use objects. AM is going to
Operations of captive AM centres. push the limits of material science, and allow us to
Wipro 3D delivers Additively Manufactured explore frontiers, never before imagined and disrupt
components in production level volumes, using manufacturing and supply chain processes globally.
a ‘Select to Prove’ lifecycle approach, based on Wipro3D is Wipro’s initiative to be part of the future
our extensive experience in Component Selection of manufacturing.
and Use Case analysis, Additive Engineering and
Simulation, Material Adaption and Substitution, Build If we go by numbers, leading analysts had assessed
the size of the additive manufacturing Market at USD
Strategies, Post Processing know-how and Prove-Out 6 Bn in 2016, and expect it to grow to USD 16 -20 Bn
considerations.
Value delivery remains a core consideration in our in 2020 at a growth rate of 27%. They attribute this
solutions and services, supported by a strong quality growth to the Metal AM market owing to an increase
framework in its industrial applications. The growth of Metal AM
is expected to be 42% with Aerospace, Automotive
About the Vice President - Wipro 3D and Medical segments driving the growth.

Ajay Parikh is the Vice President and Business Head Working With Customers in a Design and
at Wipro3D. Ajay Parikh heads Wipro Infrastructure Engineering Capacity
Engineering’s Additive Manufacturing (3D) business.
An electrical engineer, Ajay re-joined Wipro in 3D printing allows designers and engineers to
completely rethink the way they approach product
2016 to lead the company’s foray into Additive engineering. Given our strong background in
Manufacturing. During the course of his career, Ajay
has been actively involved in starting up businesses product as well as additive engineering, we work
from conceptualization, identification of opportunities with customers to analyse existing geometries,
for introducing new business lines and growing and conceptualize products to take advantage of the
freedom of design and manufacturing that 3d printing
scaling existing businesses,.
brings, and design the entire manufacturing process
In an interesting career spanning nearly 25 years, to assure repeatability and reliable, functional
Ajay has held leadership positions in domestic and performance of the product in service conditions.
international Manufacturing, IT, ITES, and Social Re- These services are based on our deep understanding
engineering companies. of various aspects of the technology. We thoroughly
understand the deep interconnect between Additive

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We assess adaption maturity of new tech essentially based
on type and extent of end-use adaption, the ecosystem
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