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News Release from: ISA:Instrumentation Systems and Automation Society | Subject: CAP programme
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ISA (Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation Society) releases its study guide for the new Certified Automation Professional (CAP) programme, providing practice questions and answers for the exams
ISA - the Instrumentation, Systems, and Automation Society has released its study guide for the new Certified Automation Professional (CAP) programme The guide provides practice questions and answers for the CAP examinations
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 25 May 2004 at 8.00am (UK)
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Certified Automation Professional (CAP) programme
ISA - The Instrumentation, Systems and Automation Society has launched the web page for its new Certified Automation Professional (CAP) programme; the first CAP exam is scheduled for October 7th
Study details role of automation professionals
The Instrumentation, Systems and Automation Society has published the job analysis study for its Certified Automation Professional (CAP) programme.
The CAP exam will focus on six performance domains that demonstrate an automation professional's ability to identify, design, and integrate appropriate automation technology in a manufacturing facility: Feasibility Study, Definition, System Design, Development, Deployment, and Operation and Maintenance.
Over the past five years "nontraditional" computing technology has changed the automation professional's skill set.
The CAP program both reflects and addresses the fundamental trend in new automation technology.
"There was a diverse group of people involved with developing CAP," says Alan Carty, founder, president, and CEO of Automationtechies.com.
Carty, who was a member of the group that identified the skills and knowledge set CAP would test, emphasises the fact that many of CAP's developers were highly technical people, " who would certainly know that if you are going to be testing an [automation] engineer today you've got to be testing him on not just those traditional technologies that were around 10 to 15 years ago, but testing them on the things that [they need] to do today in order to do the job".
CAP is the first certification programme specifically designed to test automation professionals for competency in their field.
Copies of the exam study guide can be ordered through the CAP website.
The website also features detailed information about the programme including exam dates, key knowledge and skills, and a detailed programme handbook.
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