PNEUMATIC TRAINING SET CONTROLLED WITH ELECTRICAL AND PLC RAJAMANGALA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY LANNA TAK

Abstract

The objectives of this research were 1) to establish the pneumatic training set controlled with electrical and PLC, 2) to assess the quality of training set, quality of usage, and quality of worksheets and 3) to find the efficiency of pneumatic training set controlled with electrical and PLC, by a total of 28 mechanical education and electronic engineering students. The research process consisted of the establishment of pneumatic training set and worksheets, assessment of training set and worksheets, and finding the efficacy of pneumatic training set controlled with electrical and PLC. Statistical data were analyzed using mean and standard deviation and percent. The tools obtained from this research were pneumatic training set controlled with electrical and PLC, and worksheet for designing and connecting pneumatic circuits. The results found that the characteristics of a training set has three cylinders, which were controlled with electrical and PLC. All accessories were assembled and installed in the box. The training set which was in suitable size, easy to move, actually be used, and coverd the skills of subject area in the courses, consisted of 14 trial worksheets. The quality assessment of training set by experts was very good (= 4.57, S.D. = 0.31), the quality of usage was very good (= 4.57, S.D. = 0.22), the quality of worksheets was very good (= 4.52, S.D. = 0.24), and the overall quality of the training set was very good (=4.55, S.D. = 0.03). The efficiency of the training set and the worksheet when applied to the student group were 85.39/86.26, which based on the criteria of 80/80 in research hypothesis.