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ReluctantAdult:
Poor reportage. The writer didn't even let us know what automated solutions the winners created.

Here's the details of competition https://www.vanguardngr.com/2025/12/advanxis-announces-the-second-edition-of-the-national-automation-prize-2025-nap-2025-nigerias-premier-competition-for-plc-scada-and-industrial-automation-talent/

I think Nigeria need to support engineering and technology for we to industrialize

source
https://www.vanguardngr.com/2025/12/samuel-udefia-emerges-winner-of-the-2nd-edition-of-the-national-automation-prize-2025-nap-2025/amp/

Registration ongoing

Programmers, coders, etc, over to you

Reward for Industrial Automation Knowledge

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Advanxis Announces the Second Edition of the National Automation Prize 2025 (NAP 2025): Nigeria’s Premier Competition for PLC/SCADA and Industrial Automation Talent

Advanxis Technologies & Process Automation Ltd. is proud to announce the launch of the Second Edition of the Advanxis National Automation Prize, a nationwide engineering competition designed to discover, develop, and celebrate Nigeria’s next generation of industrial automation innovators.

The competition, which currently opens for registration , will bring together Automation Professionals, students, young engineers, technicians, and innovators from across Nigeria for a practical challenge in PLC programming, SCADA design, PID control development, and industrial simulation.

Speaking on the announcement, Engr Anthony James, Founder and Lead Automation Engineer at Advanxis Technologies, stated that the competition was created to bridge the skill gap in the nation’s industrial automation landscape and prepare young Nigerians for global competitiveness in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

“Nigeria has immense engineering talent, but many young people lack exposure to real industrial systems and hands-on challenges. The Advanxis National Automation Prize is our contribution to building a skilled workforce capable of supporting the oil & gas, power, manufacturing, and renewable energy sectors. This year’s edition is bigger, more practical, and designed to prepare participants for the future of industrial automation,” he said.

The 2025 edition will feature tasks such as:

• Development of a PLC-based PID control block

• Design of a SCADA/HMI faceplate for process monitoring

• Troubleshooting and simulation using Leading Automation brands Software • Real-world process control scenarios from oil & gas and manufacturing industries

Participants will compete for cash prizes, trophies, mentorship opportunities, national recognition, and potential internship placements with leading engineering firms. In addition, winners will have the opportunity to showcase their solutions to industry leaders, government agencies, and corporate sponsors.

1st Prize N2.5M
2nd Prize N1M
3rd Prize N500k

Advanxis invites partnerships from:

Institutes, Various Industries as well as the private-sector companies across Nigeria’s industrial sectors.

According to Engr Anthony,
“Industry partnership is central to the success of this competition. By working with government agencies, universities, and technology companies, we can jointly build a platform that identifies talent early and empowers young engineers with practical exposure to automation technologies used across global industries.”

Registration is opens and ongoing via the official competition portal.

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Automation Professionals, Students, technicians, engineering graduates, NYSC members, and AI and Robotic enthusiasts are encouraged to register early and begin preparing for the competition modules.
MEDIA CONTACT
Advanxis Technologies & Process Automation Ltd.

ABOUT ADVANXIS TECHNOLOGIES
Advanxis Technologies & Process Automation Ltd. is a leading Nigerian engineering and industrial automation company specializing in process control, instrumentation, PLC/SCADA/DCS/SIS integration, training, and technical development for oil & gas, power, manufacturing, and renewable energy sectors.
The company is committed to advancing indigenous engineering capacity through training, mentorship, and national competitions.

Advanxis Announces the Second Edition of the National Automation Prize 2025 (NAP 2025): Nigeria’s Premier Competition for PLC/SCADA and Industrial Automation Talent

Advanxis Technologies & Process Automation Ltd. is proud to announce the launch of the Second Edition of the Advanxis National Automation Prize, a nationwide engineering competition designed to discover, develop, and celebrate Nigeria’s next generation of industrial automation innovators.

The competition, which currently opens for registration , will bring together Automation Professionals, students, young engineers, technicians, and innovators from across Nigeria for a practical challenge in PLC programming, SCADA design, PID control development, and industrial simulation.

Speaking on the announcement, Engr Anthony James, Founder and Lead Automation Engineer at Advanxis Technologies, stated that the competition was created to bridge the skill gap in the nation’s industrial automation landscape and prepare young Nigerians for global competitiveness in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.

“Nigeria has immense engineering talent, but many young people lack exposure to real industrial systems and hands-on challenges. The Advanxis National Automation Prize is our contribution to building a skilled workforce capable of supporting the oil & gas, power, manufacturing, and renewable energy sectors. This year’s edition is bigger, more practical, and designed to prepare participants for the future of industrial automation,” he said.

The 2025 edition will feature tasks such as:

• Development of a PLC-based PID control block

• Design of a SCADA/HMI faceplate for process monitoring

• Troubleshooting and simulation using Leading Automation brands Software • Real-world process control scenarios from oil & gas and manufacturing industries

Participants will compete for cash prizes, trophies, mentorship opportunities, national recognition, and potential internship placements with leading engineering firms. In addition, winners will have the opportunity to showcase their solutions to industry leaders, government agencies, and corporate sponsors.

1st Prize N2.5M
2nd Prize N1M
3rd Prize N500k

Advanxis invites partnerships from:

Institutes, Various Industries as well as the private-sector companies across Nigeria’s industrial sectors.

According to Engr Anthony,
“Industry partnership is central to the success of this competition. By working with government agencies, universities, and technology companies, we can jointly build a platform that identifies talent early and empowers young engineers with practical exposure to automation technologies used across global industries.”

Registration is opens and ongoing via the official competition portal.
For details www.advanxis.com/prize2

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

Automation Professionals, Students, technicians, engineering graduates, NYSC members, and AI and Robotic enthusiasts are encouraged to register early and begin preparing for the competition modules.
MEDIA CONTACT
Advanxis Technologies & Process Automation Ltd.

Email: info@advanxis.com

Phone: +2348160052942

Website: www.advanxis.com

ABOUT ADVANXIS TECHNOLOGIES
Advanxis Technologies & Process Automation Ltd. is a leading Nigerian engineering and industrial automation company specializing in process control, instrumentation, PLC/SCADA/DCS/SIS integration, training, and technical development for oil & gas, power, manufacturing, and renewable energy sectors. The company is committed to advancing indigenous engineering capacity through training, mentorship, and national competitions.

source https://www.vanguardngr.com/2025/12/advanxis-announces-the-second-edition-of-the-national-automation-prize-2025-nap-2025-nigerias-premier-competition-for-plc-scada-and-industrial-automation-talent/#google_vignette

a million usd is over 1.6 trillion naira. There are at most five people who has this kind of money

good development

Liverpool to loose

send your CV to info@advanxis.com

dhope:
What skills in mechanical design do you prefer?
Piping design, HVAC design, machine design fire-fighting design?

any or all of the above

Urgently Needed a Mechanical Design Engineer in a company in Trans Amadi, Port Harcourt. Must have sound Knowledge on Mechanical system Design.
Send your CV to info@advanxis.com

send your CV to info@advanxis.com

Urgently Needed a Mechanical Design Engineer in a company in Trans Amadi, Port Harcourt. Must have sound Knowledge on Mechanical system Design.
Send your CV to info@advanxis.com

Benwallt:
Iweala is a bloody salary earner

Yeah, you're correct. I don't think she's worth up to 100musd.

Wto can pay her more than 20musd per year

Those ladies up there are close to billionaires in dollars or trillioniers in Naira

Wooow it is interesting how the dynamics of things has changed. Dangote cement used to be the most capitalized company in Nigeria. Now Bua Food is even ahead. This Bua guy is really cruising to wealth oo

the event

source https://advanxis.com/blog-news/afini-is-the-winner-of-the-inaugural-national-automation-programming-competition

The inaugural competition on industrial Automation programming (PLC) and Graphics Development/scripting (SCADA) that was keenly contested across the nation has finally produced a winner. Afini Alluputa a Uniport graduate emerged the winner of the inaugural programming competition which is worth a prize money of one Million Naira. The Second and third prize went to Jibril and Destiny, both won Five hundred thousand naira and two hundred thousand naira respectively.

The award which took place in Advanxis Technologies and Process Automation Facility in Trans Amadi Industrial layout, Port Harcourt Mark the company’s Ten Years anniversary celebration. The award/anniversary celebration saw captain of industries and various professional organizations in attendance. The Nigerian Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers ( NIEEE) National president on Instrumentation, Control and Automation Engineering, FNIEEE, Engr. Tony Nwagbo spoke on the need to support and encourage home grown Technology to foster prosperity and job creation.

The MD of the company, Engr Anthony James thanked the participants and promise that the second edition of the competition will be much bigger and more encompassing to include other application based programming. He urges companies, organization and the government to support indigenous engineering and Technological effort in order to foster local engineering and technological capacity which in turn will accelerate industrialization with attendance job creation and economic growth.

The award/anniversary celebration also features Engineering exhibition, music and other entertainment.

Entry closing is drawing near

Advanxis @ 10 Presents:[/b]

[b]National Automation Competition/Prize on PLC/SCADA Programming/Scripting simulation.

A novel Technical Competition/Price for Industrial automation!

Advanxis Technologies and process automation is an indigenous Industrial service provider and technological company with extensive expertise In process automation and instrumentation, electrical control panels and electrification, mechanical/Process designs and fabrication, EPC projects as well as FEED and detailed engineering.

As part of the event marking our 10th year anniversary celebration of Advanxis Technologies and Process automation we are placing some premium prize and reward to deserving individuals who can prove their mantle in the field of industrial automation. We are rewarding the best PLC programmer and HMI/SCADA graphics developer with the following prize money

Ist Prize N1,000,000
2nd Prize: N500,000
3rd Prize: N200,000
& Lots of consolation Prizes to be won

The task of the Competition/prize involves developing and writing the logic program as well as developing the SCADA/HMI graphics for our Hypothetical fruit juice process.

Control Narrative for Advanxis Hypothetical fruit juice Process

Fruit juice is produced from chemical A through D and water.
Tank AB admits chemical A, Water and Chemical B in the volume ratio of 10 : 7 : 8 m3 respectively and as shown in the fig 1 above
Similar ratio is also true for tank CD as shown in the fig 1 above
After admitting the chemicals and water, the respective mixers for tank AB and CD comes on for 10 secs and 15 secs as shown.
Vessel EF admits mixture AB via valve VE and mixture CD via valve VF. The volume is 1m3 to 2m3 of each respectively.
Tank AB and Tank CD should regenerate the content when the volume of mixer is equal or less than 4m3
Vessel EF after admitting mixtures will mix via mixer MEF for 30s
The mixture will be chilled via a cascade control to within 5oC
Mixture in Vessel EF is within specification only when TT is between 4 to 6oC
Vessel EF regenerates its content when the volume of mixture is less than or equal to 0.1m3
Once the mixture is within specification, robotic arm RBA1 picks bottle from the first conveyor and Place on the second conveyor as shown in the diagram. That operation takes 3s to complete
Bottle is sensed by sensor 1 (S1) after RBA1 arm placed it on the second conveyor. Conveyor moves for 5 secs to arrive at the filling station.
Bottle fills to 2 litres in 4s, moves to subsequent stations within time shown in the figure: 3s cocking station, 3s operation time; 1s Labeling Station, 3s operation time; 3s RBA2 pick and place robotic arm, 2s operation time. A Pack of 12 bottles is packaged by Robot RBA3 and it takes 2s operational times to package, remove and place another empty pack.
Note: the limit switches in all the on/off valves will be used to confirm the open (LSO) and the closed (LSC) statuses of the valves and will serve as a permissive to progress the control sequence. Also, develop a valve-limit switch command/feedback subroutine to generate all possible alarming conditions and feedback statuses of the valves.
Note: The volume measurements for the tanks and the spherical vessel are all indirect volume measurement that must be derived from the level measurement.

The Graphics Development requirement.

Reproduce the graphics of the process plant as shown in Fig 1
Ensure you define your colour animation convention for your Valves (Open/Close/fault)
Ensure you apply appropriate animation convention for your tank filling.
Ensure your bottle animation movement is as much as possible realistic by applying appropriate animation/scripting.
Whenever possible, apply appropriate animation/scripting to achieve realistic process graphics.
Entry Procedure

The competition will involve stage 1 or entry stage and stage 2 or the final stage

Stage 1 or Entry Stage

This is the entry stage and it involves non software solution.

Find below the activities for this stage:

Registration for the competition (Register here)
once registered you will automatically receive an acknowledgement email
Write a summary of not more than three pages on how you are going to approach the solution
The summary will highlight: valve-limit switch command/feedback subroutine algorithm/pseudo code, the indirect volume measurement from level measurement and the ensuing calculation, the programming language(s) you would employ. Summary of other programming details that would be required to achieve the control narrative and finally the summary of how the graphics animation would be achieved based on the control narrative as well as the process diagram.
The entry must be submitted to Prize@advanxis.com
This stage will end on Monday 15th December, 2024. Time: 12AM. Hence, all entries must be submitted on or before that time.
Successful candidate will be qualified for stage 2.

The Second Stage/Final stage

This stage will involve Software implementation of the process logic and graphics. The PLC/HMI/SCADA software of choice are: TIA Portal, Control Studio/Contrologix/FactoryTalk SE/ME as well as Intouch.

Find below the activities for this stage:

The shortlisted/Successful candidates will be scheduled for 120mins online implementation of the logic/graphics for the process
The Top successful candidates will be unveiled and the prize money awarded on the anniversary celebration day, 21st of December, 2024. Venue: Advanxis Technologies and Process Automation Facility, 22 Trans Amadi Road, Trans Amadi Industrial Layout, Port Harcourt.
Hurry up! And register, as registration is still ongoing!

Urgently Needed an Electrical/Electronics Engineer in a company in Trans Amadi, Port Harcourt. Must have sound Knowledge in electrical/Electronics Design
Send your CV to info@advanxis.com.

Urgently Needed an Electrical/Electronics Engineer in a company in Trans Amadi, Port Harcourt. Must have sound Knowledge in electrical/Electronics Design
Send your CV to info@advanxis.com

techmatas:
Urgently Needed a female sales engineer in a company in Trans Amadi, Port Harcourt.
Send your CV to info@advanxis.com

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