An automated hardware machine that cuts and shapes cable specimens for IS standards testing, used by testing laboratories and cable manufacturers.
Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution · Department of Consumer Affairs (DoCA) · Hardware
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Automated Feeding System
Motor-driven rollers and adjustable clamps feed and straighten the cable securely.
Cutting and Stripping Module
Precision blades with programmable depths and an auto-adjusting diameter sensor perform cuts and stripping.
Control System
A PLC or HMI interface manages operations, allows test method selection, and monitors status.
Specimen Ejection
Automated mechanisms eject finished specimens and manage waste.
Safety Interlocks
Enclosed areas and mechanical interlocks protect operators during machine operation.
Both columns are read off the brief's own wording. Nothing here is inferred from the ministry's name.
The jury will check whether the machine physically cuts and strips cables according to IS 10810 and IS 7098 standards using automated rollers, precision blades, and a PLC control system with safety interlocks.
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Exact dimensions and weight limits of the cables to be processed?
The brief never answers this, so a panel will. Whatever you decide, say it the same way twice.
Specific materials and motor specifications for the hardware build?
The brief never answers this, so a panel will. Whatever you decide, say it the same way twice.
Has any part of this been shown at a previous event, hackathon or college project?
The guidelines are explicit: your solution must not have appeared in any previous event or programme, of any sort. A recycled project is what a team under time pressure reaches for.
The brief asks for automated feeding system. How would you build that?
Decoded from SIH26030 itself — Motor-driven rollers and adjustable clamps feed and straighten the cable securely. The brief asks for it by name.
Each one is quoted from a gap in the brief, not a guess about your team.
Needs physical hardware
Listed as a hardware problem statement, so a working demo needs physical components you have to source yourself.
Needs data you may not get
The problem requires building a physical hardware machine with precision blades, motors, and PLC controllers, which cannot be simulated purely in software during a standard hackathon final.
What the organisers attached, and what the brief assumes you can get.
Same organisation, same year. Reading two of theirs tells you more about what they care about than reading one.
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Who has this problem, what already exists, and what you would have to find out.
The brief asks for cutting and stripping module. How would you build that?
Decoded from SIH26030 itself — Precision blades with programmable depths and an auto-adjusting diameter sensor perform cuts and stripping. The brief asks for it by name.
The brief asks for control system. How would you build that?
Decoded from SIH26030 itself — A PLC or HMI interface manages operations, allows test method selection, and monitors status. The brief asks for it by name.
The brief asks for specimen ejection. How would you build that?
Decoded from SIH26030 itself — Automated mechanisms eject finished specimens and manage waste. The brief asks for it by name.
The brief asks for safety interlocks. How would you build that?
Decoded from SIH26030 itself — Enclosed areas and mechanical interlocks protect operators during machine operation. The brief asks for it by name.
Where does your data come from — a published source, one you collect, or one you generate?
No dataset is attached to this problem statement, so sourcing it is part of the work and nobody told you that.
Why not use what already exists? Name the closest thing to this that is already running.
A team that has not named the alternative themselves is answering this for the first time in the room.
Which single thing will you demonstrate end to end, start to finish, with nothing skipped?
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Show me this working: the jury will check whether the machine physically cuts and strips cables according to IS 10810 and IS 7098 standards using automated rollers, precision blades, and a PLC control system with safety interlocks.
This is the evaluator read for your problem statement, decoded from the brief's own wording.