Delta Donates Equipment for Delta Industrial Automation Lab and Opens Innovation Engineering Co-working Space at KMITL

Bangkok, Thailand, November 23, 2020-Delta Electronics (Thailand) PCL. opened the Innovation Engineering Co-working Space at King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang (KMITL) and donated new Delta robots, industrial automation equipment and interactive display products to the Delta Industrial Automation Lab at the KMITL Faculty of Engineering.

Mr. Jackie Chang, President of Delta Thailand, and Associate Professor Dr. Somyot Kaitwanidvilai, KMITL Faculty of Engineering Dean, officially opened the new co-working space and Delta management demonstrated the donated equipment to KMITL staff and students. On the same day, Delta donated also its original six-axis articulated robots, new actuators and a NovoTouch interactive large-screen display to the Delta Industrial Automation Lab at the KMITL Faculty of Engineering.

Delta sponsors the new co-working space as a platform for Thai engineering students, experts and academics to collaborate on driving local innovation and sharing the latest knowledge in industrial automation. This is in addition to the Faculty of Engineering’s Delta Industrial Automation Lab, where engineering students can develop skills in robotics, automation systems, IoT, electronics and embedded systems.

Speaking at the opening ceremony, Mr. Jackie Chang said, “Delta is proud to continue our pioneering development of automation education at Thailand’s universities. Today we further strengthen our excellent collaboration with KMITL with the new co-working center and our latest advanced equipment for the Delta Industrial Automation Lab here. We look forward to supporting more top universities like KMITL to foster Thailand’s next generation of engineering talents who will help create a technology-driven and sustainable economy.”

Around 1,000 Thai engineering students have already trained at the Delta Automation Academy so far. Delta has set up Delta Industrial Automation Labs in Thailand’s top universities including: Chulalongkorn University, Kasetsart University, King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang and King Mongkut's University of Technology campuses in North Bangkok and in Thonburi.