Siemens digital tools rescue engineering students during lockdown

Posted on 10 Dec 2020 by Tom Lane

Siemens technology helped postgraduate MSc Mechatronic Systems Engineering students to complete a vital academic project after Covid-19 closed the campus and stopped them accessing any physical equipment in their labs.  

A challenge common to many in industry because of the pandemic, the students’ only option was to design, develop, and test a solution in the virtual world before deploying and commissioning it remotely. In this case to go from physical to virtual commissioning of their  assessment task to prototype a conveyor belt system that acts…

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