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A Clear First Step
A quick way for a manufacturer to check its AI readiness and leave with a score, priorities and recommendations.
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Manufacturing · Industry Body · Web Portal
CII Smart Manufacturing Platform
Smart manufacturing portal for the Confederation of Indian Industry
www.smartmfgindia.com
Four maturity levels
- Foundational
- Developing
- Integrated
- AI Enabled
Industry
Client
Confederation of Indian Industry (CII)
Engagement
Web Portal & CMS
Platform
Live Since
2 November 2026
Stack
Next.js & Strapi
The challenge
Who they are and what they needed
The Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) runs the Smart Manufacturing Platform for manufacturers and MSMEs working toward Industry 4.0. It also serves technology and solution providers looking for partners, and the CII staff who manage it.
The platform replaced an older ASP.NET site. Bluelupin implemented the design, built the web app and the CMS, loaded the content, and now runs content management and releases. CII supplies the facts, approves the wording and owns the infrastructure.
The platform gives a manufacturer one place to check its AI readiness and to find solutions, case studies, reports, training and partners. All of it had to stay editable by people who don't write code.
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Resources in One Place
Case studies, reports, solutions, E-directories, programmes and events on one site, with filters on case studies, programmes, events and matchmaking.
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Edited Without Developers
Every page section had to be editable by CII staff and Bluelupin editors, with changes live as soon as they are published.
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Careful With Form Data
Assessment answers, match requests and contact form entries needed protected handling, retention periods and a record of who viewed or exported them.
What we built
Platform capabilities in production
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AI Readiness Assessment
Fifteen questions across ten business areas. The result shows an overall score, one of four maturity levels, area scores, priorities and recommendations, on screen, as a PDF and by email.
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Matchmaking
Browse MSMEs and technology providers, ask for a match or express interest in a participant, and get an acknowledgment email.
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Knowledge Hub
Case studies, reports, solutions and E-directories, with PDFs that open in the browser.
How it fits together
From user touchpoints to core services
How the platform's layers connect, from the public experience through APIs and data to cloud delivery.
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Visitors
Manufacturers, MSMEs and technology providers on the public site.
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Next.js Front End
React pages in TypeScript and Tailwind.
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Strapi 5 CMS
About 40 content types on PostgreSQL. Published changes refresh the affected pages.
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Assessment Engine
Server-side scoring, maturity levels and a PDF report.
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Email Delivery
Branded emails for reports and acknowledgments, with copies to the CII desk.
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Protected Forms
Rate-limited, write-only endpoints for the public forms.
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Privacy Controls
Retention periods, personal-data requests, an audit log of who viewed or exported submissions, and Google Analytics only after a visitor accepts cookies.
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AWS Hosting
The site, CMS and media run on AWS.
How we delivered
How the project was delivered
Bluelupin built the platform between April and November 2026. The readiness model and questions come from CII, which also approves the wording and owns the infrastructure.
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Implement the Design
Bluelupin built the design as a Next.js and React front end in TypeScript and Tailwind.
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Model the Content
Strapi 5 on PostgreSQL holds about 40 content types, from page sections to case studies and events, so editors change content, order and media without code.
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Build the Assessment
The AI Readiness Assessment scores each answer on the server, assigns a maturity level, and produces area scores, priorities and recommendations as a PDF report sent by email. The model and questions are CII's; Bluelupin built the platform that runs them.
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Go Live and Release
A beta went up on 23 October 2026 and the site went live at www.smartmfgindia.com on 2 November 2026. Links to the old .aspx pages redirect to the matching new pages, and releases are tagged.
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
It is the Confederation of Indian Industry's portal for smart manufacturing and Industry 4.0, at www.smartmfgindia.com. Bluelupin built it, and it has been live since 2 November 2026.
A manufacturer answers 15 questions across 10 business areas. The platform scores the answers and shows an overall score, a maturity level, area scores, priorities and recommendations. The report appears on screen, as a PDF and by email.
Foundational, Developing, Integrated and AI Enabled.
CII. The site says the model was "developed by CII in consultation with senior industry experts from leading organisations such as Rockwell Automation, Tata, Siemens, Bosch, Blue Star, IISc, IITs". Bluelupin built the platform that runs it.
A Next.js and React front end in TypeScript and Tailwind, Strapi 5 on PostgreSQL for content, Redis for rate limiting, and AWS hosting.
CII staff and Bluelupin editors change every page section, its order and its media in Strapi. When they publish, the site refreshes the affected pages.
Next step
Building a portal for an industry body or association? Book a consultation.
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Bluelupin runs content management and releases for the platform. New case studies, reports, programmes and events go up through the CMS as CII publishes them.
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