VTU in association with Bosch Rexorthsets up Centre for Automation

Mysore, Nov 16 (UNI) Visvesvaraya Technological University(VTU) in association with Bosch Rexorth Germany is setting up a centre for competence in automation technology here first of its kind in the country.

Mr Woltgang Wagner, Managing Director of Bosch Rexorth India, layed the foundation stone for Rs 12 crore Centre today.

Mr Wagner, speaking on the occasion, said Bosch Rexorth, one of the companies of 40 billion Ero Boert Bosch, has developed a worldwide Didactic System for education on the effective application and efficent use of machines and systems in manufacturing industry, more so in automobile industry in India.

Similar centres were being established in Singapore and South Korea, he said his company had been growing by 27 per cent during the last five years all over the world and has a vision to continue the same rate of growth upto 2015.

Stating that India had a huge academic resource pool, he said it however lacked skilled professionals and this was necessary to achieve more in the industrial areas and his company has been preferred to invest on this aspect to improve its growth in the coming years.

Mr Uwe Freyer, Manager franchise training centre Bosch Rexorth Germany said the training centre would cater not only to the students but also to the other people who intended to take up the training in various industrial sectors. Hardly ten per cent of the people in the industry were having the skill of training, he added.

The centre of competence would have facilities to impart training and education in industrial Hydraulics, Pneumatics, programmable logic controllers, sensors, mechatronics and robotics.

He said the Bosch Rexorth would invest one third of the total cost of the project here and VTU has also sought the funds from the Union Ministry of the Science and Technology. This centre would made one of the best training centre in the world with providing all facilities to it, he added.

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