Process University

We employ experts in the food, dairy, beverage, and other nutritional industries to make processes, people, and equipment intelligent.

Partnering with colleges, universities, and tech schools.

We also believe in helping your staff learn and grow, and successfully handle your day to day process and automation needs. Instead of selling you service contracts, we’ll train your people.

Your staff can grow their careers, and your downtime decreases.

Courses are available for both processes and technology. All courses are certificated, some carry CEUs.

Basic knowledge of automation and troubleshooting.

Course content:

  • Analog and discrete circuits
  • Safety around electrical equipment
  • Hands on labs
  • Troubleshooting

Courses are typically *-* days.

Courses are for 4-6 people, geared towards plant technical staff.

In depth knowledge is shared on specific equipment common in process plants. Our pasteurizer operator certification is accepted by all states.

Courses include:

  • Pasteurizers
  • Dryers
  • Evaporators
  • CIP
  • Regulatory and PMO

Courses are typically 1-2 days.

Common students include everyone from operators to plant management and can be larger classes.

Your employees are trained by specialists. The curriculum will be tuned to the course goals. Often uses an actual PLC program from your plant, that is loaded into our test systems and worked on in the classroom.

Common requests:

  • PLC programming
  • Motor controls
  • Drives

Courses are 2 days and taught in our Cerritos location.

Courses are for 1-2 people.

Your staff selects a small project, and Food Automation treats them as one of our own. We have found this educational experience launches your employee(s) into high levels of confidence to troubleshoot and make smaller changes in your automation.

What we will do:

  • Mentor your employee(s)
  • Assist with the startup or implementation.

Some time is required working with our engineers in our Southern California office.

Courses are for 1-2 people.


Knowledge Testing

Coming winter 2025, this testing will be online and include:

  • Knowledge testing on common processing
  • Knowledge testing for automation
  • Knowledge testing for maintenance skills

Testing will enable overall knowledge and growth tracking, and help assess candidates to hire.