The system has the purpose of training students on measurement and control of industrial quantities. It is composed of 5 separate trainers, each dealing with a specific industrial parameter, namely pressure, temperature, flow rate, level and pH, allowing users the study of standard industrial transmitters, actuators and relevant devices that are used in automation.

This pilot plant allows the study of the continuous process control, based on the typical four variables, that is, Pressure, Temperature, Flow and Level. This plant is made of real industrial and commercial components, easily identified by the student and commonly utilized in industrial plants. Besides the indicators and sensors, the plant includes transmitters that convert the physical signals to electric signals, to be processed by the PLC and/or the PID controllers. Additionally, the plant has a bus terminal, where all the electrical signals are available for an external controller. The plant includes a SCADA supervising software for parametric configuration and process visualization and PID controller.

This sensors and transducers trainer teaches the operating principles of the sensors/transducers which are most widely used in industry. It is subdivided in two sections: in the lower section there are all the input and output transducers, while in the upper side there are all the signal conditioning systems as well as the instrumentation.