Modern technology adopted to develop Naval Dockyard, says Admiral Superintendent

‘Robotic crawlers will be deployed in certain works like peeling off the old paint’

Rear Admiral I.B. Uthaiah, Admiral Superintendent of Naval Dockyard, Visakhapatnam, has said that the yard is being developed into a smart dockyard with the adoption of automation, IoT, and undertaking repairs and refit in the minimum possible time and in-house development of ERP solutions for quick turnaround.

Interacting with media persons, in connection with the golden jubilee celebrations of the yard, here, on Monday, Rear Admiral Uthaiah said that robotic crawlers would be deployed in certain works like peeling off the old paint. The present strength of 5,000 plus staff, was less than the required strength by about 40%. This was being met by offloading some of the work to the local MSMEs, he said.

As many as 145 local MSMEs were registered with the yard. Replying to queries, he said that an average of 16 to 17 refits a year were being done at the yard during normal times and the same was maintained even during the pandemic time by taking all the necessary precautions.