Sarisa (Bengal)-based The Neotia University has tied up with Technex’17, the annual techno-management festival of Indian Institute of Technology, IIT Varanasi (Banaras Hindu University), to organise a workshop on Industrial Automation in association with Innovians Technologies. The two day workshop, scheduled on 24-25 September, 2016 at The Neotia University, will provide a unique opportunity to engineering students from Eastern India to get IIT Certificates. The winning participants of a national Industrial Automation competition at the end of the workshop will also get a chance to showcase their innovative projects and compete at Technex 2017, the renowned annual techno-management festival of IIT Varanasi in February.
The workshop will focus on one of the most relevant topics related to productivity – namely, Industrial Automation and more specifically – Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) – the two most used guiding forces behind any automated industrial plant. The main objective of this workshop is to make aspiring engineers acquainted with the concept and knowledge of latest technologies being used to achieve industrial automation.
The workshop will be conducted across 3 rounds.
- Round 1: A Workshop will be organized under the aegis of Technex’17, IIT Varanasi, in association with workshop partner Innovians Technologies at 20 different Zonal Centers/Colleges in India from July, 2016 to February, 2017. The Neotia University is a Zonal Center from Eastern India partnered by Technex’17, IIT Varanasi for the workshop. All participants will receive a Certificate of Merit fromTechnex’17, IIT Varanasi.
- Round 2: A Zonal Round Competition will be organized among the registered participants at The Neotia University on the 2nd day of the Workshop (25th September) & two best performing teams will get a direct entry to the Final Round competition to be held at Technex’17 IIT Varanasi in February, 2017.
- Round 3: A Final Round competition will be held at Technex’17, IIT Varanasi among all the Zonal Centre winning teams in February, 2017 and the winning team will get Certificate of Excellence & Prizes.
