Training complex for developing and evaluating skills for solving optimization and control problems in food production facilities

Abstract

The paper is devoted to the development of theory and practice of creating computer simulators for professional training of personnel in the food industry. The prototype of the Intellectual Training Complex (ITC) is developed for training engineering specialists in knowledge and skills in solving problems of optimization and control of production processes. The functioning of the ITC software is based on algorithms that allow modeling typical optimization and control problems in exercises, in particular, the processes of formation and evaluation of individual exercise variants are determined by the properties and structure of this type of problems. Implementation of the ITC prototype in the educational process of technological universities to train engineering specialists in the skills of solving optimization and control problems in the practical aspect allows simplifying the creation and evaluation of exercise courses, contributes to better formation of knowledge and skills of a specialist taking into account the specifics of the chosen training direction (in particular, as applied to the professional training of food production technologists, specialists in the automation of technological processes at food enterprises).