This course is about getting information needed for troubleshooting complex processes. It deals with inputs and outputs; where their data can be found, determining what input characteristics are needed for outputs and considering how external factors affect them.

Three types of processes provide the context; sequential, continuous and robot-based crafts.

This is an easy to present, activity-based workshop using the Mimic with a detailed Leader's Guide. Students work in teams using comprehensive student Activity Books with complete instructions for all activites.

Participants read diagrams and locate components, test points and adjustments. By recording voltages, they discover how circuits work. Their "fingerprint tables” pinpoint variances, essential for troubleshooting.

The MIMIC contains digital logic gates, comparitors, inverters, potentiometers, switches, phototransistors and LEDs. Faults are introduced using switches.

Electronics training or experience is not needed. It’s a learn-by-doing course with no arithmetic and very little reading

This flexible workshop may be conducted in a classroom or assigned to students working in pairs on their own with the Mimic. There is a Leader's Guide with instructions for both formats and Activity Books for students.