Building a training module for modern control

Engineering students majoring in instrumentation and control require training modules to realize practices in industrial processes and automatic control. Usually these modules are expensive and most are designed to control a single variable. In the present work we design and built a low-cost training module, which makes possible to realize labs practices in the industrial process control area, with up to two independent simultaneous variables, and by using modern elements. The system is easy to use, robust and has proved to be a useful tool for evaluating the different control modes required in the existent industrial world.