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Industrial Automation Lab

Industrial Automation Lab offers manufacturing automation on Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMS) including material storing and dispatching equipment AS/RS, machining stations CNC lathe, CNC milling, CNC grinding, material handling equipment such as 4 axis and 6 Axis Robot, loading /unloading automated guided vehicle(AGV), Assembly Station and Visual Inspection Setup. This Lab provides in-depth coverage of Computer Integrated Manufacturing and Industrial Automation. It contains a high proportion of hands-on study particularly in the areas of computer Aided Manufacturing (CAM), Computer Numerical Control (CNC) and manufacturing automation.

Industrial & Automation Lab has tool dynamometer (Kistler company) and minimum quantity lubrication setup along with Temperature Data Acquisition system, which are used by the M.tech students, Research Scholars and Faculties of different programme to carry out their research work smoothly. The speciality of this Lab is that the CNC machines installed here can be individually utilized for research purpose. M.Tech and PhD students are actively involved in the lab, working on different CNC machines for completing their dissertation.

3D Printing Lab

Additive manufacturing
A method of manufacturing known as ‘Additive manufacturing’, due to the fact that instead of removing material to create a part, the process adds material in successive patterns to create the desired shape.
Concept
3D Printing uses software that slices the 3D model into layers (0.01mm thick or less in most cases). Each layer is then traced onto the build plate by the printer, once the pattern is completed, the build plate is lowered and the next layer is added on top of the previous one.

Main areas of use:
•Prototyping
• Specialized parts – aerospace, military, biomedical engineering, dental
• Hobbies and home use
• Future applications– medical (body parts), buildings and cars

Types and Materials
The entire 3D printing technology can be divided into 3 steps – (a) 3D Design (b) Slicing (c) 3D Printing. 3D digital model is the starting point for any 3D printing process. This digital model can be created using various 3D design softwares or can also can be created using 3D scanning. Once the 3D model is created, it is then sliced into layers thereby converting the design into a file readable by 3D printer. 3D printer will then print this file layer by layer using the material given as input to the 3D printer. Plastic is currently the only widely used material — usually ABS or PLA. There is also a growing number of entry level machines that have been adapted for foodstuffs, such as sugar and chocolate.
Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM)
Multi-jet printer, two types of printers are available in our center. These 3D printers work on the principal of fused material deposition and filament-based polymers deposition to shape an object, layer-by-layer.

Design and Simulation Center

This lab consists of 18 high end specifications computer systems (32 GB high speed RAM, 4 GB dedicated Graphics card and high-performance multicore intel processor.) with latest design and simulation software like SolidWorks, ANSYS, and MATLAB etc, which enables the students to simulate various complex designs related to their work. This lab is integrated with 3D printing lab so as to design and develop the prototypes for testing.

Application areas of ANSYS:
• Antenna Design and Placement
• Autonomous Sensor Development
• Avionics and Flight Control
• Electric Motors
• Electronics Reliability
• E-Motor NVH and Active Sound Design for EV
• Gas Turbines
• Hypersonics
• PCBs, ICs and IC Packages
• Power Electronics
• Rotating Machinery
• Vehicle Chassis
• Wind Turbine Design

Application areas of SolidWorks:
• 3D Model Design (CAD)
• Assembly of Parts
• Analysis of Part (CAE)
• Making 2D Drawings
• Making (CAM) Programming (CNC Machining)
• Making Additive Manufacturing (AM) (3D Printing)

Application Areas of MATLAB:
• Automated Driving Systems
• Control Systems
• Data Science
• Deep Learning
• Embedded Systems
• Enterprise and IT Systems
• Image Processing and Computer Vision
• Internet of Things
• Machine Learning
• Mechatronics
• Power Systems Analysis and Design
• Robotics
• Signal Processing
• Wireless Communications

Tribology Lab

A pin on disc tribometer consists of a stationary pin that is normally loaded against a rotating disc. The pin can have any shape to simulate a specific contact, but cylindrical tips are often used to simplify the contact geometry. This Ducom Pin/Ball on Disk Tribometer is a test instrument designed for accurate and repeatable tribological characterization of bulk materials, coatings and lubricants. It’s easily changeable holders allow users to quickly change the nature of tribological contact to something that is relevant to their application. The Pin/Ball on Disk Tribometer is used to characterize the tribological behavior for almost all material bench-marking and materials development needs.

Different types of objectives can be resolved related to analyze wear characteristics related to lab to industrial materials etc. One of the common research activity is analyzing the wear behaviour of composites, metallic, ceramic components with different lubricant with varying loads.