The world skills competition is held every 2 years, representitives from countries all over the world compete against each other in their repective trade areas. The last World Skills Competition was held in Shizouka, Japan and was a huge success. The next World Skills Competition will be held in Calgary, Canada in September next.
The requirements for Industrial Control cover elements from electrical installation and automation installation, although the requirements are now leaning more and more towards automation installation. The current mix of categories includes Electrical Installation and Mechatronics, a field covering automation installations for component manufacture.
The category requirements include the basics of electrical and automation installation:
Install conduits, cables, devices, instruments, automated devices and control centre fittings quickly and safely, and implement the assemblies safely.
Install conduits, cables, devices, instruments, automated devices and control centre fittings quickly and safely, and implement the assemblies safely.
Design circuits and parameters, and programme and implement frequency transformers and programmable logic.
Troubleshooting for relay control and logic programmes
Barry Bolger competes at the World Skills in Japan 2007