A working day at a simulated Indian company
A job simulation puts you in a junior engineering or data role for a few weeks of short working days. You clock in and out, get a skills check and a learning plan from your manager, work on projects, and keep a work pack at the end. It is practice, set in invented companies in real industrial areas, with Indian standards, rupees and names.
How a simulated day goes
Step 1
Clock in
Your day starts at a desk. You clock in, read your messages and see what your manager needs today.
Step 2
Skills check and learning plan
Early on, your manager asks how well you know the skills the job needs, checks a few of them, and gives you a short learning plan. At the end you check again, so you can see what moved.
Step 3
Projects
The work is organised in projects with a client, a brief and deliverables, such as a drawing, a test record or a report. You hand them in and get feedback.
Step 4
Clock out
You log off when your time is up. A day is built for 30 to 45 minutes, so it fits around classes or a job. Your hours are on a timesheet.
Step 5
A work pack you keep
Everything you handed in, your timesheet, your skills before and after and your manager's letter come together as a PDF you can download, with your files in a zip.
Each simulation has up to 20 working days. You can do one day at a time, or several in one sitting. Your manager, your colleagues and the client are AI colleagues, and their portraits are AI-generated. The manager's letter at the end is written by AI from your results, and it says so.
Included with the paid programmes
There is no separate fee for job simulations. When you join the AEP, PGDIA or EPGDIA or the AIP, the simulations that suit your programme open in your student portal. Each one is marked with the point in the course after which it helps most. That is advice, not a lock: you can start any of yours at any time. They are optional practice and do not change your programme certificate.
The 23 roles and where they are set
All companies are invented. The places are real industrial areas and cities.
Automation and controls
Programming, screens, panels, instruments, robots and plant networks.
PLC Programmer
Write the I/O list, program a bottling line, run the factory acceptance test and handle a change request.
Indrayani Controls, a systems integrator in Chakan, Pune, building PET bottling line 2 for a beverage plant (simulated company)
Included with: AEP, PGDIA and EPGDIA
SCADA and HMI Engineer
Build the tag list, alarm list and operator screens for a running water treatment plant.
Arkavathy Systems, a SCADA integrator in Peenya, Bengaluru, on a town's water treatment plant (simulated company)
Included with: AEP, PGDIA and EPGDIA
Commissioning Engineer
Loop checks, I/O checkout, the site acceptance test and a punch list on a plant that is nearly ready.
Palar Commissioning Services in Sriperumbudur, commissioning a dairy's milk reception skid (simulated company)
Included with: AEP, PGDIA and EPGDIA
Control Panel Design Engineer
GA drawing, schematics, BOM, a heat calculation for a 45 °C panel room and the routine test.
Noyyal Controls, a panel design and build shop in Coimbatore, on a case packer panel (simulated company)
Included with: AEP
Instrumentation Engineer
Instrument index, datasheets, loop diagrams and calibration for a solvent blend tank in a hazardous area.
Vishwamitri Automation, an instrumentation contractor in Vadodara, at a solvent plant in Ankleshwar GIDC (simulated company)
Included with: AEP, PGDIA and EPGDIA
Robotics Engineer
Risk-assess, guard, program and hand over a palletising robot cell: light curtain, robot handshake and tests.
Kollidam Automation, a robot integrator in Ambattur, Chennai, on a packaging plant's palletising cell in Oragadam (simulated company)
Included with: AEP, PGDIA and EPGDIA
OT Security Analyst
Asset inventory, zones and conduits, and a remote-access incident at a plant, without touching live equipment.
Kukadi Controls Security, an OT security firm in Hinjewadi, Pune, for a dairy plant in Baramati MIDC (simulated company)
Included with: AEP
Electrical and energy
Design, substations, solar, EV charging and data halls.
Electrical Design Engineer
Size cables and protection for a utilities block at 45 °C, draw the single-line diagram and handle a late design change.
Ponnaiyar Power Design, a design consultancy in Guindy, Chennai, for a creamery's utilities block in Madurai (simulated company)
Included with: AEP, PGDIA and EPGDIA
Substation and MCC Engineer
Protection settings, relay tests and an inrush trip when energising a new feeder.
Pawana Panelworks, a panel builder and site testing contractor in Bhosari, Pune, at a glass works' new 11 kV substation in Taloja MIDC (simulated company)
Included with: AEP
Solar PV and EV Charging Engineer
Size a rooftop PV array, test it before energising and fit EV chargers on a limited supply.
Sharavathi Energy Installations, an installer in Bommasandra, Bengaluru, for a logistics hub in Hoskote (simulated company)
Included with: AEP
Data Centre Critical Facilities Engineer
Method statements, change control and a UPS event in a live data hall; power, cooling and capacity.
Ulhas Data Services, a facilities operator in Mahape MIDC, Navi Mumbai, running a data hall on its campus (simulated company)
Included with: AEP
Maintenance and facilities
Keeping a plant or a building safe and running.
Maintenance Electrical Engineer
Work orders, safe isolation under a permit, fault finding and a root-cause report.
The in-house maintenance team of a biscuit plant in an industrial estate near Pune (simulated company)
Included with: AEP, PGDIA and EPGDIA
Maintenance Technician
A first month in a moulding plant: safe isolation with a buddy, first planned maintenance rounds and a heater fault.
The maintenance team of Hagari Polymers, a moulding hall with eight injection machines in IMT Manesar, Haryana (simulated company)
Included with: AEP
Multi-skilled Maintenance Engineer
Mixed electrical and mechanical faults on a chilled ready-meals line, safe isolation, planned maintenance in a CMMS and a reliability plan.
The engineering department of Hemavathi Kitchens, a ready-meals plant in the Harohalli industrial area, Bengaluru (simulated company)
Included with: AEP
Mechanical Maintenance Engineer
Vibration and alignment checks, hydraulics, a lifting plan, spares and the root cause of a bearing failure.
The maintenance department of Ghod Board and Packaging, a converting hall in Waluj MIDC, Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar (simulated company)
Included with: AEP
Building Services Multi-skilled Engineer
Planned maintenance, building management alarms, water safety, fire alarm tests and a 12-month compliance calendar.
Nira Building Services, a facilities contractor in Pune, for an office tower and an outpatient clinic (simulated company)
Included with: AEP
Quality and projects
Complaints, charts, schedules and costs.
Quality Engineer
A customer complaint with 24-hour containment, 8D, a gauge study, PFMEA and process control charts.
Dudhna Precision Components, a brass-parts maker in Jamnagar, with a customer's battery junction line in Chakan, Pune (simulated company)
Included with: AEP
Engineering Project Coordinator
Keep a RAID log, write the status report, run the document register and manage a late vendor, with costs in rupees.
Vatrak Controls, a controls contractor in Sanand, Ahmedabad, on a 33/11 kV primary substation project at Changodar (simulated company)
Included with: AEP
AI and data
Data, models and AI tools at work.
Data Analyst
Clean messy order data, answer the business question with SQL and charts, and present it.
The customer growth team of an online home décor company in Bengaluru, with GST, UPI and cash-on-delivery data (simulated company)
Included with: AIP
Machine Learning Engineer
Train, evaluate and document a churn model, and catch target leakage before it ships.
Kabini Data Science, an applied ML consultancy in Electronics City, Bengaluru, for a chain of fitness clubs (simulated company)
Included with: AIP
Computer Vision Engineer
Specify, label and evaluate an inspection model on an electronics production line.
Chinnar Vision Systems in Hosur, inspecting sensor boards on an SMT line (simulated company)
Included with: AIP
AI and LLM Application Engineer
Build and evaluate an HR and policy assistant, then handle a prompt-injection incident.
Mutha Applied AI in Pune, building an assistant for an auto-components maker's 2,400 staff (simulated company)
Included with: AIP
AI Business Analyst
Scope an AI invoice-processing pilot: GST, privacy, risks, savings and what to measure.
Hindon Data Labs, a data consultancy in Greater Noida, for the finance and HR shared services of a logistics firm (simulated company)
Included with: AIP
What this is not
- It is not a real job or work experience. The companies are simulated and nobody is employed.
- It is not a placement, and finishing one does not promise an interview or an offer. It gives you a working week to talk about.
- It does not replace the classroom, the lab or a trainer. It is practice between and after them.
- It is not recognised by any university or government body. A finished simulation has its own certificate with a public verification page, and nothing more is claimed for it.
- It cannot teach what needs your hands, such as wiring a panel or working on live equipment. The lab and the centre do that.
- The colleagues are AI. They can be wrong, like a real colleague, so check what matters against your notes and your trainer.
The demo opens on sim.edwartens.com and needs no sign-in.