Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering & Centre for Industrial automation together organized an awareness session on “Opportunities in Industrial Automation” for UG students in ECE, EEE, CSE, MECH and AUTOMOBILE in various venues during July 9, 2018 – July 11, 2018. Mr. Manikandan. P, faculty coordinator for Centre for Industrial automation briefed on the various activities happenedlast year and activities planned for the current academic year. He was the Jury for mechatronics in India skills south 2018 conducted by National skill Development Corporation under Ministry of skill development and entrepreneurship & Selection round for Regional competition in Toyota technical training institute (Mechatronics skill).

Industrial automation is the use of control devices like programmable logic controllers to control machines used in Industry by replacing labour. Industry is challenged by various factors like withstand to dangerous manufacturing environments and also meeting energy efficient standards. Automation increases the production rate by producing greater output for a given labor input. The sensing elements convert the physical process variables such as flow, pressure, temperature, etc. into electrical or pneumatic form.
The manufacturing industries use machines to create its end products. Some of these manufacturing industries include textiles, food processing, car manufacturing etc. automation systems are used in every stage such as material handling, machining, assembling, inspection and packaging.

He gave insights on India skills competition conducted by National skill Development Corporation under Ministry of skill development and entrepreneurship and World skill competition. Students are motivated to participate in competitions by enhancing the skills. Students are informed about the value added course on skill development in mechatronics and onsite internship opportunity in Republican institute for Vocational education, Minsk, Belarus.