With technology advancing at an unprecedented rate in the manufacturing and instrumentation sector, educating students to have the latest and most applicable skills for industry is a priority. One of the most successful ways of ensuring this currency is to partner with key industry vendors, such as Yokogawa Australia, a relationship which was forged over 30 years ago.
Yokogawa has continued to provide the latest equipment, including the CENTUM VP R6, fully equipped with Yokogawa pressure and temperature transmitters.
The TAFE Queensland Eagle Farm campus is equipped with 4 x field control stations (FCS) and 9 x engineering workstations, allowing students to develop their programming and tuning skills for PID control, ratio, cascade and feedforward control. The students are also able to complete their own projects connected to a live working plant.
TAFE Queensland teacher Glen McMurtrie comments "We look to provide the highest levels of technical training to our students, maintaining a high degree of relevance to their day to day activities for when they are back on site.
"We get the students to program and test temperature loops using a domestic sandwich toaster. Temperature probes are inserted inside the sandwich and the heating element controlled by the DCS using a traditional feedback loop. Set points are adjusted on the operator workstation as the heating elements set to work toasting the sandwich, ensuring its heated all the way through. The students have great fun, yet take it very seriously especially in cases where their lunch is the content of the sandwich press!”
Practical application is at the heart of TAFE Queensland programs, and helps students to remember their training long after they have graduated. Adding an element of fun into practical activities enhances the learning process further.
“With our scaled down process plant, and the majority of our students using Yokogawa’s CENTUM DCS in their daily work, these are practical skills which are immediately useful."
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