A workshop on Industry Automation-PLC and SCADA
was organized on 21st Feb 2015 by EECE Dept. under Continuous
Education Programme (CEP) of the University. The workshop was conducted by
SOFCON, a NSDC, Ministry of Finance, Govt. of India affiliated and funded
company and who channel partners of Schneider Electric of France, an ISO
9001-2008 certified Company dealing with Design, Assembling, Installation,
supply and servicing of automation Systems. They also conduct training programs
for B.Tech students.
The workshop included an introduction to automation, its role in the industry,
types of automation, applications to SCADA, features of SCADA, licensing
concept, introduction to PLC, introduction to programming software, programme
uploading/downloading, and Communication between PLC and SCADA. Designing
industrial processes with various components of SCADA and PLC along with coding
and programming and knowledge of hardware details and interfacing were also
discussed.
A large number of faculty members of EECE Dept. and 76 students of ECE, EEE and
Mechanical branches of the B.Tech programme attended the workshop. This
workshop was indeed very helpful in providing knowledge of industry automation
of Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) and Supervisory Control and Data
Acquisition (SCADA).
A view of the Workshop in progress |