SOFCON India

An industrial visit to Sofcon India Pvt. Ltd. Noida was organized on 21st September 2013 for the students of III & V sem of ECE & EEE Department. The aim of the visit was to help the students learn Maintenance, Service, Design and Application Engineering segment and also to provide them an insight view of industrial environment.

SOFCON India Pvt. Ltd. is a company providing automation solutions to Indian and overseas industries for over two decades. It is professionally run by technocrats having decades of experience in Training / process / manufacturing industry.

The visit started with three parallel sessions of 2 hours each regarding three most emerging fields:

Automation                                                          Embedded Systems                                                Building Management.

The session on Embedded Systems session saw technocrats from Sofcon give lecture on Microcontroller Family- AVR, PIC, 8051, Embedded C & Assembly Language, Memory organization, Robotics introduction, Chip level & Component level electronics, Introduction to ARM 32 bit microcontroller, GPS & GSM Technology interfacing. This attracted the electronics students very much and they founded it most suitable field for future.

The students were then taken into actual workshop of control panels containing PLCs, working real time operating systems in automation applications, real-time robots used in automobile industries etc.

The visit helped the students in discerning their domains after studies and to choose a right segment for their future scope.