Mechatronics Technician
Competency-based
ONET: 17-3024.00
2
Years
55
Skills
480h
Related instructions
Classroom instruction topics
- Industrial Safety
- Electrical Blueprints
- Basic Industrial Electricity
- Basic & Intermediate Hydraulics
- Basic & Intermediate Pneumatics
- Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs)
- Introduction to Mechatronics
- Robotics & Sequencing
- Mechatronics Troubleshooting
On-the-job training
- Safety Processes
- Recognizes safety machinery procedures
- Recognizes safety, health and environmental requirements
- Follows company policies and regulations
- Identifies contact points within organization
- Communication
- Reliably follows the instructions of others
- Willingly asks questions when not fully understood
- Regards the safety of others by assisting and teaching
- Maintains proper documentation, logs and calibration records
- Establishes trust and rapport with operators, supervisors and others
- Ensure proper communication between shifts, operations and supervision
- Technical Documentation
- Reads and interprets mechanical drawings
- Reads and interprets fluid power (hydraulics/pneumatics) drawings
- Reads and interprets power-driven drawings
- Reads and interprets Process & Instrumentation Diagram (P&ID) and process and control loop drawings
- Reads and interprets vendor information
- Computer Knowledge
- Uses a PC with appropriate Windows or Linux operating systems
- Uses basic computer office tools
- Access the internet to retrieve information, configures wired and wireless networking, installs applications
- Uses a tablet device
- Adds user accounts to a PC
- Installs and uses anti-virus software according to security policy
- Automated Material Transport (Conveyors)
- Assembles rollers and belts
- Adjusts height and distance to adjoining belts
- Reverses direction of travel
- Sets and adjusts tracking
- Measures and adjusts belt speed
- Determines if proper guards are in place
- Adjusts and modifies guards and validates safe operation meets compliance
- Troubleshooting & Return to Service
- Installs and troubleshoots key mechanical components
- Installs and troubleshoots power driven components
- Installs and troubleshoots electronic sensors and components
- Installs and troubleshoots power driven control components
- Installs and troubleshoots fluid power components
- Installs and troubleshoots vacuum systems components
- Industrial Computer Systems (PLCs)
- Installs basic components of a PLC including racks, Ethernet, power supply, processor and single point digital input/output modules
- Connects power and digital input/output wiring to PLC
- Selects and appropriately connect sinking and sourcing inputs and outputs
- Configures and connects a laptop or other programming device to a PLC to upload, download and save program
- Changes preset timer and counter values, applies and removes forces from program
- Troubleshoots equipment by observing PLC indicator lights and PLC ladder diagram (relays, timers and counters)
- Adds a function to a machine or process that requires wiring of additional I/O and basic ladder logic programming
- Troubleshoots a PLC or a PLC-controlled machine or process by observing input and output conditions and monitoring program in real- time
- Properly installs and terminates wiring for low level analog signals
- Troubleshoots equipment or process utilizing PLC or PAC that implements closed loop process control and general purpose multi-axis motion control
- Robotic Systems
- Exercises appropriate safety procedures with robots
- Identifies all types of robots
- Programs robot movement with teach pendant
- Uploads, downloads, saves and runs a robot program
- Interfaces an end effector to a robot controller
- Calibrates a robot to a transport system
- Interfaces a robot to a vision system
- Sets up lighting for a vision system
- Teaches a vision system how to identify and orient good and bad products
- Troubleshoots a robot system, replaces components and returns to operation
- Performs repair procedures on a robot arm
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