Thursday, May 30, 2013

BWI: Flow and Level Lab from Forbes Marshall Inaugurated at VIT

Press release from Business Wire India
Source: Forbes Marshall
Thursday, May 30, 2013 12:36 PM IST (07:06 AM GMT)
Editors: General: Consumer interest, People; Business: Business services, Education & training; Technology
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Flow and Level Lab from Forbes Marshall Inaugurated at VIT


Pune, Maharashtra, India, Thursday, May 30, 2013 -- (Business Wire India) -- As part of our CSR for Industry-Academia interaction and cooperation, Forbes Marshall has donated a number of the latest flow and level instruments to Vishwakarma Institute of Technology (VIT), Pune which a leading engineering college that also offers a degree in Instrumentation & Control Engineering. The main objective was to familiarise students with the basic working and real-time functioning of these industrial products. These included Krohne Magflowmeter, Vortex Flowmeter, Rota (VA) meter, Flow Switch, Arca Ecotrol Control Valves, I/P Converters and Weka Magnetic Level Gauge.

This hi-tech lab was inaugurated on 28th May 2013, by Mr. Kekoo Vacha, Director Forbes Marshall, and Mr. Bharat Agarwal, President VIT. Mr. Vacha in his inaugural address said: "Forbes Marshall collaborates with research institutes. By collaborating with their research and the latest technology from the company, state of the art, first in the world products like the BOD (Biochemical Oxygen Demand) analyser are launched commercially. Our company works closely with educational institutes and providing this lab gives students an opportunity to work with state-of-the-art instruments. As a company we very conscious of corporate social responsibility and encouraging students is especially important to us."

Forbes Marshall has also imparted a 3 week extensive in-plant training to seven TE (Inst) students through summer internship. A system using all these instruments was specially designed and with their existing PID Controller hook up with their DCS system. This was driven by the former then HOD (Inst) Dr JV Kulkarni, and then Prof Jitendra Gaikwad who had conceptualized the design and converted it into a workable system. Mr. C S Dhamankar, Mr. Mahesh Inamdar and Mr. Sharad Rahudkar from Forbes Marshall, provided overall guidance.

Forbes Marshall will continue to help provide their students with the study of individual instruments as well as the complete instrumentation system to get the basic concepts clearer and extend their understanding of how the things actually work in the industry.

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Standing 5th from left Mr Bharat Agarwal, President VIT and 3rd from right Mr Kekoo Vacha, Director Forbes Marshall
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Standing 5th from left Mr Bharat Agarwal, President VIT and 3rd from right Mr Kekoo Vacha, Director Forbes Marshall


CONTACT DETAILS
Belinda Gaikwad, Corporate Communications, Forbes Marshall, +91 9372405526, bgaikwad@forbesmarshall.com

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