Expert harps on automation to drive national transformation

Automation
Omu-Aran (Kwara), April 27, 2018 (NAN) A non, Prof. Christian Osueke, has called for the adoption of automation as the major catalyst toward achieving national growth and a developed economy.
Osueke of the Department of Mechanical Engineering Landmark University, Omu-Aran, made the call while delivering the institution’s 5th Inaugural Lecture held at its auditorium in Omu-Aran, Kwara.
Osueke, a Professor of Design, Automation and Energy, spoke on: “Divine Secrets: The Booster of Innovative Design and Automation”.
He said such adoption was informed by the need to reduce production cost and eliminate wastage.
According to him, continuous application of muscular efforts in form of hand pressure leads to fatigue, loss of concentration and inaccurate production.
Osueke defined automation as involving the use of machines and material handling equipment to carryout manufacturing processes with high level of speed, consistency and precision beyond human capacity.
He said that the world was presently in the era of innovative design and automation, soft and hardware usage toward an enhanced productivity.
Osueke expressed the need to align with global technological trend to achieve a developed economy.
“Technology determines the level of nation’s security, technology eradicates food insecurity.
“We are in the era of adaptive control, the era of innovative design and automation, the era of soft and hardware usage in enhancing productivity.
“It is the local content technological revolution that can assist in achieving our desired transformation,” he said.
Osueke, who decried the nation’s poor and inadequate energy regime, said such could be a hindrance toward achieving the desired technological breakthrough.
He said that the imbalance between rates of energy supply and demand was responsible for the high cost of goods and services being presently experienced across the country.
“Industries are being forced to generate their own power in the course of production while residential homes are not left out in the energy demand.
“Almost all Nigerian homes now have standby generating sets, despite the abundant supply of natural resources like coal, hydro, natural gas, crude oil etc.,” he said
He suggested building of more power stations so as to meet the projected power demand by 2030 which has been estimated to be 297,900 MW.
Prof. Adeniyi Olayanju, the institution’s Vice Chancellor, reiterated the institution’s commitment to upholding functional capacity as a means of driving solution to societal challenges.
He said the institution attached utmost priority to spiritual core values, saying such had earned the university access to the divine secrets that had continued to define its operations and accomplishments.
“It is a great privilege to have a spiritual father, an exemplary leader and visionary of high repute as our Chancellor, Dr David Oyedepo whose support for quality education cannot be over emphasised.
“This is evidenced in his immensurable investment in Landmark University, the conducive environment created for raising not only global leaders but also deserving professors from young academics. (NAN)
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Edited by Grace Yussuf