15th February, Bengaluru: Mitsubishi Electric, a leading Electric & Electronic Equipment Company, announced the winners of 5th Mitsubishi Electric Cup on Saturday, 15th February 2020. The two-day National Level Automation Competition witnessed tough competition among 35 teams, exhibiting projects on the theme “Visualizing IoT Solutions for Smart Automation’. Launched in 2016, The Mitsubishi Electric Cup is an annual event organized by Mitsubishi Electric India. This is the biggest National-level Automation Competition in India that challenges many collegiate engineering teams to design, build and present factory-automation products based, innovative working models.
The 5th Mitsubishi Electric Cup commenced the registration process in July 2019 and received 279 proposals from 140 institutions, over 16 states including 2 Union Territories, across the country. All the participating teams were mentored by Mitsubishi Electric India’s technical team and were provided with the essential Mitsubishi Electric’s Factory Automation products such as Programable Logic Controllers (PLCs), Human Machine Interfaces (HMIs), Servo Motors, Variable Frequency Drives (VFDs) etc., to showcase their solution based model for smart manufacturing.