Financial Times

Siemens, the global leader in electrical and electronics engineering, recently donated industrial automation equipments to the University of Moratuwa and supported them to set up the Mechatronics system laboratory. The total donation amounted to Rs 2 million.

The company said that during the recent visit of J. Schubert, Managing Director, Siemens Ltd. to Colombo city, Siemens formally handed over the working models to be used in the Mechatronics System Laboratory to the University of Moratuwa (UoM) in the presence of its Vice Chancellor Prof Malik Ranasinhe, faculty members and student representatives.

Siemens has provided necessary hardware and application support to the Mechatronics department to equip their laboratory with models depicting various applications on ‘Industrial automation’.

Under the supervision of its faculty, the students of the Mechtronics department have developed these unique concept models in coordination with Siemens and its system house for Automation and Drives in Sri Lanka, M/s Nikini Automation. The 10 models featured in the laboratory explain to students how automation could be used in industry, thus triggering their thought process and helping them understand the concepts better. Siemens also deputed experts from its training institute to help fine tune the courseware and check if the applications provided the desired learning outputs.