Why?

The engineers and technicians that have grown up with modern automation since the early 1980s are now in their later years and starting to retire. Unfortunately there are more engineers and technicians retiring than there are knowledgeable ones to replace them. This creates a set of major problems:

• Who understands the equipment they have been working on that is also aging?
• Who has the knowledge to implement the technologies they have spent 20+ years in learning?
• Modern technologies are great, but without a foundation from which to understand them, they can be difficult to understand.

Attending product-specific classes are helpful, but they always assume a base of knowledge. It is like learning algebra without learning the basic arithmetic first! Students come out of college with a base of general knowledge and the ability to think, but dont know what to do with that knowledge or how to apply it practically in their corporate environments.

Curriculum

• Level 1: Basics - Introduction to Automation
• Overview and conceptual understanding
• Foundation for Level 2
• Target audience:
  • Non-technical personnel seeking some frame of reference
  • Recent college graduates entering the workplace
• Level 2: Architectures - Intermediate Automation
  • Architectures
  • Sizing factors & concepts
  • Software, electrical & mechanical concepts
  • Target audience: technical personnel seeking to better understand general automation technologies
• Level 3: Selection - Advanced Automation
  • Sizing & selection
  • Target audience: experienced technical personnel seeking to design systems and do their own sizing and selecting of products

Pricing

• $750 per person per day with a minimum of 4 people in the class.
• $3000 per day for one company onsite plus travel expenses if outside of California.

For more information please email: valinuniversityinquiries@valin.com

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