SACA's Micro-Credentials can be attained to prove efficiency in specific applications or combined to attain a full SACA Specialist Certification. The Smart Automation Certification Alliance (SACA) is a non-profit organization supported by industry partners and educators.
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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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This video shows how to create a simple report for your class, delete a failed assessment attempt and save your report to use again later... all in less than 2 minutes!
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DAC Worldwide’s sample boards offer valuable maintenance training in the identification and selection of a variety of industrial components. Each sample board features a selection of industrial-quality components mounted on either a panel or a station that features nameplates for easy association with individual components.
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Item Number:278-180SSDAC Worldwide’s Sanitary Air-Operated Diaphragm Pump Cutaway, Stainless (278-180SS) depicts a sectioned industrial air-operated, double-diaphragm pump (AODD) cutaway that supports realistic classroom training in the operation, construction, and maintenance of this common process pump used in many industries. -
Item Number:273-410SSDAC’s Sanitary Diaphragm Valve Cutaway, Stainless (273-410SS) is a specialized, sectioned valve and actuator assembly that unveils the complete working mechanism of a representative diaphragm-actuated, stainless steel control valve used in sanitary service. -
SanitationSim™ Series 8 waste disposal driving simulator delivers safe, scenario-based training for sanitation and recycling drivers—improving safety, efficiency, and fleet performance. -
Falls from scaffolds account for roughly 25% of fatal falls from all working surfaces. The primary goal of this course is to teach workers safe work procedures to follow when working on or around scaffolding. -
Item Number:373-529DAC Worldwide’s Schrader Service Valve Cutaway (373-529) is an economical, professionally-crafted specialty valve cutaway that supports training relating to Schrader valves, which are widely used for testing, servicing, and recharging within refrigeration and air-conditioning systems. -
Item Number:273-520DAC's Scotch-Yoke Actuator Cutaway (273-520) is a detailed valve actuator cutaway that depicts a common Scotch yoke-type valve actuator often used as a closure device on industrial 1/4-turn valves. -
Item Number:278-190DAC Worldwide’s Screw Pump Cutaway (278-190) depicts a sectioned industrial screw-type pump allows for convenient and realistic classroom training in the operation, construction, and maintenance of common process pumps used in various applications across the globe. -
Item Number:275-190DAC Worldwide’s Screw Pump Dissectible (Imo) (275-190) is one of a limited group of enhanced dissectible products. This re-manufactured, realistic dissectible industrial pump can be used for training relating to the repair and overhaul of specialized process pumps.
