On August 17th-18th, the WSC international invitational Tournament for Mechatronics project was held online by Festo. It attracted more than 30 players, experts and coaches to participate.
To actively well-prepare for Skill Mechatronics of 46th WorldSkills Competition, this competition is designed to promote skill level and accumulate the competition experience for the competitors.
The competition attracted more than 30 contestants from Japan, Taiwan and Hong Kong and 6 Chinese training teams’ contestants, experts and coaches from Beijing, Shandong, Jiangsu and Guangdong. During the innovative year for WorldSkills, they are going to start a fierce skills competition.
18 young competitors need to finish two tasks during two days. One is performing the assembling, programming and debugging process of production line on the measuring unit and extraction mounting unit. The other is reassembling the packaging unit then complete programming and debugging on this basis.
The competition will use the Mechatronics learning system from Festo, which includes Pick&Place station, measuring station, packaging station, Stacking magazine module and measuring module. These modules have been adopted in past WSCs (Leipzig WSC, Brazil WSC, St.Paul WSC, Abu Dhabi WSC and Kazan WSC), and will also support the 46th WorldSkills competition in Shanghai soon.
The competition terrain for 6 Chinese training teams was located at Advanced Technical School affiliated to Tianjin University of Technology and Education, which is the Chinese training center of skill Mechatronics the 46th WorldSkills competition. Competitors entered status of the competition gradually.
“Most of the competitors in Chinese training teams have already owned a high level of skills. However, some operational details and the mentality of the competition still need to be further polished and adjusted since they are lack in competition experience. The original intention about holding this competition is hoping to simulate the scene of next year's WSC as much as possible through warm-up games like this, so that competitors can improve their skills in practice.” Head of Product Management & Training Service of Festo Didactic in Greater China, WSC Support representative Shaoliang Yan said in the post-competition summary.
The competitors have said that the competition has meant more than just the result, what’s more, they gained the rare experience for competition and realize their real horizon in practice. Skills can be only improved with targets. But they need to recognize their limitations first.
On June 30th, WorldSkills just celebrated the 30-year-long partnership with Festo. The Skill Mechatronics is the first competition Festo designed and equipped after the cooperation.
As the global partner of the WorldSkills Competition, except the Mechatronics project, Festo learning and training system will continuously support the Water Technology ,the industrial machinery, the industry 4.0 and the renewable energy sources which belongs to the 46th WSC holding in ShangHai 2022.
As a German independent family-owned company, Festo has been providing Education and Training Program in Pneumatic, Hydraulic, Electric/Electronics, PLC, Digitization/ Industry 4.0, Lean production and so on to 60,000 industrial enterprises and educational institutions around the world for more than 50 years in the education and training field. Also as a leading provider of automation technology and technical training, Festo is always committed to add impetus for promoting the international and regional new era of skilled talents training, relied on its practical experience in industrial production field and deep knowledge of professional skills.