Real-World Engineering
Learn automation by doing. One real task a day — appraise a drawing's tolerances, rebuild a part and verify it by mass, teach a robot's points, write PLC logic or hunt a bug. Grounded in real shop-floor problems, from your first fit to expert stack-ups. Solve, earn XP, climb the leaderboard.
Every day at midnight UTC
⬡ Only in the Arsyn software
An Operation is the big one: a client hands your crew a complete terms of reference, and you deliver the entire machine — 3D conception, wiring, component selection under a real budget, PLC programming, robotics, lead times — everything, built inside Arsyn with its real editors and simulation. Crews of up to three, one deadline, a public grading rubric. New operations drop when they're ready — follow the Mission Board in Arsyn.
Design, program and prove a 4-way sorting station that holds a 3-second cycle.
A packaging plant receives four product variants mixed on a single infeed conveyor — and sorts them by hand, three shifts a day. Management bought a camera, a 800 mm delta robot and an S7-1500 before hiring engineers; now your crew has to turn that shopping list into a cell that actually sorts 1 200 products per hour into four lanes. Miss the 3-second cycle and the upstream line backs up; jam the reject path and the whole plant stops. Design the cell, define every signal, build the logic, and prove the timing.
System Specifications
Grading Criteria
Targeted practice
Rusty on limits & fits? Never verified a model by mass? Shaky teaching robot points? Drill a specific discipline instead of waiting for the daily.
Limits & fits, GD&T, tolerance stack-ups
Rebuild a print, verify the part by mass
Sizing actuators, forces, torque, ratios
Teach ordered points & collision-free paths
Ladder, ST, FB, timers, data blocks
Write & run real Structured Text
Read logic, trace faults, spot the bug
Motor, cable & breaker sizing, protection
IP addressing, subnets, fieldbus topology
4–20 mA scaling, PNP/NPN, conditioning
L10 life, vibration, root-cause
Servos, cams, gearing, velocity profiles
Cycle time, throughput, bottlenecks
Global Ranking
The best automation engineers on Arsyn, ranked by total XP, streak, or level.
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For students & working engineers
Every challenge starts from an actual machine, fault, or spec you'd meet on a real line — the kind of thing a multiple-choice quiz never prepares you for.
Submit and get scored immediately, with the correct approach explained. Review yesterday's solution and see how the community tackled it.
XP, levels and streaks turn scattered practice into a visible skill curve — useful for students building a portfolio and engineers keeping sharp.
Questions
Track your XP, keep your streak alive, unlock team operations, and appear on the global leaderboard. Free forever — no card, no spam.
Daily challenges are playable without an account — your XP just won't be saved.