PMMI Mechatronics Certification Tests are based on industry-developed standards and recognized by the U.S. Department of Labor. They are also recognized by the Manufacturing Institute's Skills Certification System, which is endorsed by the National Association of Manufacturing.
For questions or interest in taking an exam, please email mechatronics@pmmi.org.
This certificate covers the function, operation, and application of common components used in fluid power circuits and systems. It also assesses the understanding of how fluid power components and accessories are placed together to create circuits and systems for powering industrial machines.
This certificate covers basic safety practices for voltages up to 600 volts and knowledge of voltage, current and power in AC and DC circuits, circuit analysis of series and parallel loads, and basic understanding of resistors, capacitors, and inductors.
The Industrial Electricity 2 certificate builds upon the Industrial Electricity 1 certificate. Candidates should understand more complex motor starting circuits such as jogging, hand-off-automatic, reversing, and reduced voltage starting.
This certificate covers the principles and applications of the most commonly found mechanical drive components as used in packaging machinery and systems. Topics include simple mechanical power transmission devices such as shafts, belts, chains, cams and gears with an emphasis on application and troubleshooting.
This certification exam builds upon the topics covered on the Mechanical Components 1 test by evaluating the candidate's mastery of the principles and application of more complex mechanical components such as clutches, brakes, gear boxes, transmissions, ball screws, and linear components.
This certificate exam evaluates the candidate's mastery of the principles, application, troubleshooting and maintenance of rotating electrical motors and electronic motor drives as used in packaging, processing and other manufacturing environments.
This certificate covers the principles and applications of different types of logic and programming used to control packaging machinery and systems. Topics include hardware and software composition of control systems, input/output interfacing, basic logic commands and common programming instructions.
This test covers advanced principles and applications of programmable logic controllers (PLCs). Among the advanced topics are PLC real time considerations, various levels of PLC networking, alternate programming languages for PLCs, international standards applied to PLCs, integration of logic and motion control in PLCs, and more.
