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News Release from: Festo
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 21 January 2008
Courses train on PLC
maintenance/troubleshooting
Fourteen manufacturer-specific PLC training courses, cover Basic and Intermediate Level Maintenance and troubleshooting for Siemens, Rockwell/Allen Bradley and Mitsubishi PLCs.
The training and consulting operation of automation company Festo, Festo Didactic, has launched training courses for maintenance and service engineers As a result of a collaboration with Industrial Training and Consultancy Services (INTACS), the company is now able to offer 14 manufacturer-specific PLC training courses, covering Basic and Intermediate Level Maintenance and Troubleshooting requirements for the most used Siemens, Rockwell/Allen Bradley and Mitsubishi PLCs
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 13 Apr 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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One covers Basic Industrial Electrics and Control Fundamentals, the other provides training in Health and Safety competency.
The manufacturer-specific PLC training courses complement Festo Didactic's general courses on this subject and enable maintenance engineers to familiarise themselves with the actual PLC technology in use at their place of work.
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The courses cover the Siemens S7-300/400 and S5 PLCs, Rockwell/Allen Bradley ControlLogix PLCs, SLC 500 and PLC-5 and Mitsubishi PLCs.
Managing director of Festo UK, Gary Wyles, said: "The UK manufacturing industry is facing unprecedented challenges and has to work ever harder to remain competitive.
And there are no 'silver bullets' - it's all down to 'doing what you do, only better'.
One of the most effective ways of achieving this is refining and tuning maintenance engineering skills - which is what these courses are all about".
The Basic Industrial Electrics and Control Fundamentals training course targets non-electrical maintenance personnel and provides the knowledge, skills and confidence required to work safely alongside qualified electricians.
Course participants will become familiar the following.
* Modern industrial components.
* Principles of operation.
* How to check for fault status.
* Safe working practices.
* Practical introduction to fault finding.
The new course on Electrical Health and Safety competency is designed for fitters, mechanics and electricians.
To satisfy the requirements of current Health and Safety law, fitters, mechanics and electricians now need to be able to show proof that they have received appropriate and current formal Electrical Health and Safety training.
They also have to show that they have been coached and assessed regarding their responsibilities and on-site isolation procedures and Health and Safety requirements.
Festo Didactic delivers these training courses in collaboration with INTACS.
All course participants complete a Training Record Log, which details the key knowledge and essential practical skills covered on the course, with attendees being required to sign off essential topics to confirm understanding and competence.
* About Festo Didactic Training and Consultancy - Festo is most widely known as a manufacturer of pneumatic and electrical components and systems for automating industrial processes.
Festo Didactic offers learning systems to the education sector and training and consulting services to industry.
It operates in 70 countries world wide with a full time work force of over 200.
More than 42,000 people attend training courses and more than 230 consultancy projects are managed each year.
* About INTACS - Industrial Training and Consultancy Services has been providing top quality training on industrial control systems equipment since the end of the 1980s.
The organisation's instructors are all qualified training professionals who have many years' relevant industrial experience.
The INTACS Training Centre is based in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, UK.
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