Kumaraguru’s research centre develops tester for Defence aircraft’s ACL PSU

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The Kumaraguru Centre for Industrial Research and Innovation (KCIRI) has developed an indigenous exertion to maintain, repair, and overhaul the ‘Anti-Collision Lamp Power Supply Unit’ of the Dornier craft and supplied it to the Base Repair Depot (BRD) of the Indian Air Force astatine Sulur, Coimbatore.

V.M. Doss, manager of the Centre, told The Hindu that the acceptance of the exertion by the BRD has thrown unfastened planetary opportunities. Even successful India, the Dornier craft is utilized by the Navy, the Coast Guard, and the Air Force. The strategy successful usage present is imported.

The Base Repair Depot (BRD), Indian Air Force, Sulur, entrusted KCT with the task to indigenise the repair-and-overhaul exertion and make a customised tester. In March 2025, the BRD handed implicit a PSU to the KCIRI. The squad from Kumaraguru designed and built from scratch a state-of-the-art, PLC and touch-screen HMI-based tester successful seven-eight months tailored to the requirements of the Indian Air Force. The merchandise is designed and developed by the KCIRI and it is assembled and made by the MSME units successful Coimbatore.

Recently, the tester was handed implicit to the BRD. More specified opportunities are successful the pipeline, helium added.

Published - November 27, 2025 06:16 p.m. IST

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