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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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