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The Automation Industry Association has launched a national educational initiative with engineering colleges, to nurture competency building for manufacturing competitiveness. This would be an industry guided programme for the students of science and engineering, and would help academia to better educate, properly train and enrich youngsters, who could be deployed by the factories of the future.
The College of Engineering, Pune, Vivekanand Education Society's Institute of Technology at Mumbai, Ajay Kumar Garg Engineering College at Ghaziabad and The National Institute of Engineering at Mysore, are the colleges that AIA has tied up with.
Dilip Chenoy, CEO, National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC), said he was pleased to know that the automation industry was collectively building formal linkages with academia, supporting global training standards and creating a pull for aspiring youth.
The Automation Industry Association (AIA) is an apex body of automation technology companies. It has been at the forefront of creating new platforms that impact the nation’s competitiveness in manufacturing and infrastructure.
The educational initiative was held at AKG Engineering College, Ghaziabad. A Competency Development Centre was inaugurated. The AIA Campus Connect Programme offers two levels of engagement at undergraduate, and during post graduate engineering studies.
The programme envisages establishment of Competency Development Centers (CDC) for training in the latest automation technologies. K Nandakumar, President, AIA said, "Over the next two decades, the continuing demographic dividend could add about two percentage points per annum to India’s per capita GDP growth. This depends on the ability of the economy to absorb and productively employ human capital through adoption of appropriate technology and required skill.''
Competency Development Centres (CDCs) offer a contemporary integrated learning environment based on industrial sensors, actuators, and motion controllers. Munish Vasudeva, Head (HR), Siemens Energy said that AIA should create a scalable model for 400 CDCs focused on training, skilling and certification, so that the disparities between employability and industry needs are reduced.
AIA is helping the partner institutions to establish integrated labs that allow the trainees to gain practical experience of working on the key sub systems that they would actually encounter in the industry. Industry leaders like Siemens, B&R, Festo and Pepperl + Fuchs have come together to build a contemporary and relevant training curriculum that is brand agnostic.
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