Training in Industry Competencies and Key Sub-skills

A job card has the key tasks to be completed. These sub-skills are aligned to the industry based competencies.

The system provides skill development to address specified industry competencies through job oriented simulation training on various jobs, tasks, alarm conditions and faults. The competencies have been broken down into a number of key sub-skills in the simulations. Various alarm conditions and fault scenarios require the application of these skills to complete the task or correct the error condition.


Jobs and Alarms

The user can choose between a number of jobs to complete, or a number of alarm conditions to diagnose and correct. The jobs are presented via a series of "Job Cards". The job goal and the relevant component tasks are set out on the Job Card just as work is presented to a process control operator in a real plant. For example, a job may require the trainee to modify or adjust a temperature or pressure to maintain production targets within agreed safety boundaries. Alarms are presented in a realistic alarm panel and the user selects an alarm to fix. Faults are the most challenging error conditions because users must diagnose the problem and apply their knowledge of relevant sub-procedures to correct the situation.


Develop Industry Expertise

The benefit of this is that performing realistic jobs is a powerful way to gain the expert knowledge of an experienced process control operator. The identification of key sub-procedures allows learning tasks to be divided into manageable pieces that increase instructional efficiency and effectiveness. Practice on these tasks increases the transfer of learning between jobs as these tasks are repeated across various conditions. Tasks or sub-procedures in the simulation system are closely matched to industry standard training competencies.

Additional jobs available for purchase for registered users include examples of business simulations where the process control operator has to control their use of resources such as energy and raw materials, and monitor product input. Users can monitor their own progress and operating efficiency.