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Experience real-world factory automation—right in the classroom. The PETRA II Advanced Industrial Control Trainer from LJ Create provides a complete model of an automated production line controlled by programmable logic controllers (PLCs), an HMI panel, and SCADA software. Students gain hands-on experience designing, programming, and troubleshooting complex industrial control systems in a safe, interactive learning environment.

This video introduces the PETRA II Advanced Industrial Control Trainer—a networked factory automation system designed for education and workforce training. Viewers will see how component parts are transported across a simulated plant, monitored by sensors, and controlled by PLCs and HMI software.

Highlights

  • Overview of PETRA’s classroom-ready factory automation setup
  • Parts transport through a modeled industrial plant using conveyors and pneumatic actuators
  • Integration of PLCs, HMI panels, and programming software for real-time control
  • Students developing and running ladder logic programs to automate part movement
  • Continuous monitoring with a range of detection sensors
  • HMI interface for supervision and live plant data visualization
  • Built-in switchable faults for realistic troubleshooting and maintenance training
  • SCADA control demonstrating monitoring, trend analysis, and predictive maintenance

Learning Applications

  • PLC Programming and Ladder Logic
  • Sensor Integration and System Monitoring
  • Human-Machine Interface (HMI) and SCADA Control
  • Fault Diagnosis and Predictive Maintenance
  • Automation Systems Design and Troubleshooting

Take a look around LJ Create's virtual learning library! The library is filled with over 10,000 STEM lessons for students from elementary school age all the way up to vocational level.

PLCs are used widely across a range of industrial and manufacturing applications to control processes and systems. They play an important part in ensuring manufactured goods and automated services are provided as efficiently as possible. The skills required to implement and maintain these devices are key to many engineering programs of study.

LJ Create's Exploring STEM provides practical activities and real-world problem-solving tasks in the classroom. Investigate, design, build, and program robotic and automated machinery across a wide range of areas of technology.

Design projects include

  • Engineering Design
  • Biomedical Technology
  • Energy in Buildings
  • Agricultural Technology
  • Construction Engineering
  • Mobile Robotics
  • Mechatronics
  • Transportation Technology
  • Manufacturing Technology
  • Industrial Robotics
  • Mass Transportation
  • Electronics Technology

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  • Pneumatic Component Cutaway Set
    Item Number:
    760C
    DAC Worldwide’s Pneumatic Component Cutaway Set (760) is a tabletop assortment of industrial pneumatic components that have been modified for classroom use as teaching aids for pneumatic component training.
  • DAC Model: 295-713
    Item Number:
    295-713
    DAC Worldwide’s Pneumatic Level Controller Assembly Cutaway (295-713) is a sectioned, highlighted float-operated pneumatic level controller assembly that allows for realistic demonstration and training related to this common level control device used in oil and gas production operations.
  • Pneumatic Level Switch Cutaway, Oilfield-Type
    Item Number:
    295-722
    DAC Worldwide's Pneumatic Level Switch Cutaway, Oilfield-Type (295-722) is a realistic, sectioned example of a common industrial level switch, as used in oilfield production applications and other process systems.
  • DAC Model: 295-719P
    Item Number:
    295-719P
    DAC Worldwide’s Pneumatic Surface Safety Valve Cutaway (295-719P) depicts a sectioned full-size valve sample. A key component in ESD systems, these safety-related wellhead components ensure system shutdown in emergency circumstances.
  • Pneumatic System Troubleshooting Trainer | Amatrol 950-PT1
    Item Number:
    950-PT1
    Hands-on pneumatic troubleshooting training with real-world faults. Amatrol’s 950-PT1 uses FaultPro® to teach pneumatic, mechanical, and electrical system diagnostics.
  • Amatrol Fluid Power Assessment Equipment
    Item Number:
    27-PNA1
    Amatrol’s Pneumatics 1 Assessment Workstation (27-PNA1) features a compact workstation designed to effectively assess hands-on pneumatics skills with a variety of industry-standard components.
  • Amatrol Portable Electronics Trainer with FaultPro
    Item Number:
    990-DRV1F
    Amatrol's 990-DRV1F features industry-standard components like a Rockwell PowerFlex 4 variable frequency AC drive and a 3-phase AC motor used to teach the fundamentals of configuring and operating an AC drive. The 990-DRV1F uses FaultPro, Amatrol’s electronic fault insertion, to teach motor drive troubleshooting skills, such as drive input, motor input, and drive relay troubleshooting.
  • Amatrol Portable Electrical Trainer (990-ACDC1)
    Item Number:
    990-ACDC1
    With the 990-ACDC1 learning system, you can teach the basics of AC and DC electrical systems in industrial, commercial, agricultural, and residential applications. The system offers industry-relevant skills including how to operate, install, design, and troubleshoot fundamental AC and DC electrical circuits for various purposes.
  • DAC Model: 616-000
    Item Number:
    616-000
    DAC’s Portable Calibration Training System (616-000) is a portable tabletop instrument calibration workstation that allows for convenient testing and calibration of instruments, process controllers, and other instrumentation and process control-related components.
  • Amatrol 990-MC1F
    Item Number:
    990-MC1FSL

    Amatrol’s Portable Electric Motor Control Troubleshooting Training System (990-MC1FSL) features typical industry components like a 3-phase AC squirrel cage motor. It uses 3-phase AC for power and 24 VDC for control, all packed within a space-saving, portable product. The real-world motor control components will prepare learners for work in industries where electric relay control applications are used, like conveyor control and driving large utility pumps. Teach students how to read and interpret ladder diagrams.

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