Ajay Kumar Garg Engineering College and Mitsubishi Electric India (MEI) have joined hands and signed their third MOU on March 27, 2019. On this occasion, Katsunori Ushiku, MD & Hisahiro Nishimoto, Director, Head — FAID Mitsubishi Electric India, along with their team of officials inaugurated Robotic Cell at Mitsubishi Drive & Control Lab established under AKGEC Centres of Relevance and Excellence (CORE).
This collaboration is expected to provide a platform for industry-academia interaction and promote robotic and factory automation technologies in engineering education and SMEs of the region. This will also help to fill the gap related to high levels of youth unemployment and a shortage of job seekers with critical skills related to multidisciplinary field of robotics and automation in India. It will facilitate young engineers to get the chance to learn industry oriented skills and have hands on experience with state-of-the-art tools comprising of latest software /hardware provided by MEI to CORE. These facilities include most advanced PLCs and motion controllers with touch panel HMIs and networking facility. The lab also has servo amplifiers, variable frequency drives and the latest high speed in its class small six axis articulated robot.