Competition Overview
The competition has been designed to reflect the role of a Control Systems Engineer and the standards that are expected within the industry, also covered are elements of electrical and automation installation. The skills that are tested in the practical competition include:
- Installing and wiring equipment onto the control station.
- Configuration of equipment.
- Show control of a drive unit using Siemens TIA Portal software.
- Debugging and downloading an existing program.
- Show control of the system completing set tasks.
- Adding new functionality and operations to a given application.
General Instructions
- Competitors work in a team of two on the set tasks over two days.
- Tasks include all aspects of installing and wiring the supplied equipment onto the control station. The team will then configure the equipment and show control of the drive unit.
- Additional software tasks include looking after the Festo MPS-PA system which involves getting the station up-and-running, debugging and downloading to the PLC and HMI. Teams must also demonstrate an understanding of the program, and show control of the system completing set tasks.
- Logbooks are also produced to show the steps taken during the competition.
A maximum of 2 teams of 2 competitors may enter this competition per organisation.