Under mission REACH program of Department of Science and Technology, Government of India, select DCE for creating Center of Relevance and Excellence (CORE) in field of Fiber Optics and Optical Communication. Being it was very prestigious project and expectations were very high. The key to success was their emphasis on quality research and innovative design in technical education.
Project leader Prof. R.K. Sinha, wanted a project handbook of updated project research and developments, which can be presented in front of research community, students, institutes, industry and government to provide them updated information and progress of project on any occasion like regular project presentation, conference, monitoring committee visits, and industrial partner meetings.
After detailed discussions, it was decided to print Project Handbook by POD - Printing on Demand in small batch on monthly basis or as when require. This technology enabled to print the exact number of copies which includes :
- Latest publications related to project
- Latest research papers
- Latest conference proceedings
- New industrial partner in the project
- New facilities available in the project
This solution not only helped solve the CORE project updated information booklet but also in turn gave a number of additional benefits like :
- Low cost of printing (Average cost per copy used)
- Zero Inventory
- No Issues of Unused Inventory Disposal
- Helped adopt a more prefessional approach
- Eco-Friendly priting - using only the amount of paper required
- Adding a personal touch by customising the Project Information Book
- Helped the Project save unnecessary expenditure
- Helped researchers to save time of preparing new presentations
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