Delta Electronics India has partnered with the Tamil Nadu Skill Development Corporation to establish a Centre of Excellence in Robotics and PLC Automation at the College of Engineering in Bargur, Krishnagiri district.
The facility opened as part of Tamil Nadu’s Vetri Nichayam skill development initiative. It features 4-axis and 6-axis robotic systems, PLC training workstations, and a smart screwdriver assembly cell designed to replicate actual factory conditions.
Training focuses on industrial automation, electronics system design and manufacturing, and programmable logic controller programming—skills directly relevant to India’s expanding manufacturing sector. The centre will run monthly short-term programs.
Tamil Nadu has been aggressive in building industry-academia partnerships to support its manufacturing ambitions. This collaboration addresses a persistent gap: the struggle to find trained operators and technicians.
The initiative should provide a nudge for broader collaboration within Indian manufacturing and academia: companies are realizing that technology adoption means nothing without skilled people to operate it. By embedding training facilities in engineering colleges, particularly in tier-2 and tier-3 locations, programs like this attempt to democratize access to high-value technical skills and reduce the urban-rural divide in manufacturing opportunity.
