Automation teach system replicates industry

A process automation learning system accurately replicates real-life industrial environments to facilitate hands-on automation training.

At IWEX 2007, Festo is unveiling a new and highly innovative training system developed specifically for the process industry.

Designed to facilitate hands-on automation training for personnel working in the process sector, the new MPS PA process automation learning system accurately replicates real-life industrial environments.

The system is entirely modular, enabling it to be configured to suit a diverse variety of process automation requirements, including water treatment and supply, cooling and refrigeration, food processing and pharmaceutical manufacturing.

The MPS PA learning system provides a very cost-effective means of training personnel in the design, commissioning, use and maintenance of large-scale processes that would be prohibitively expensive or impracticable to shut down for training purposes.

The MPS PA is fully compatible with other modules in Festo's MPS series of modular production systems, enabling users to configure installations that exactly match their training needs.

These include simulation stations, PLCs and industrial controllers, together with a software package known as Fluid-Lab-PA, which allows trainers and trainees to perform measurement and control operations on PCs.

Festo is also taking the opportunity to showcase the company's portfolio of process-specific pneumatic products at IWEX, as well as highlighting its latest process industry focused training courses.

The company trains over 42,000 personnel worldwide every year and is a leader in technology based courses on pneumatics, hydraulics and PLCs, as well as in soft skills personnel development, such as service engineer communication courses, employee engagement and team coaching.

* About Festo - Festo specialises in the provision of high-value solutions for the control of both continuous and discontinuous processes.

The company's innovative control actuation products and in-house systems capabilities are utilised by water utilities and bio-tech pharmaceutical companies worldwide.

Festo has 300,000 customers, served by 11,500 employees in 176 countries.

The company has approximately 23,000 catalogue products, and generates about 100 patents every year.

It invests 7% of turnover in R and D, and over 1.5% in training and employee development.

The training and consultancy division of the company, Festo Didactic, delivers sustainable skills in automation and personal communications to more than 42,000 trainees every year.

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