Valves are widely used in various industrial fields, such as plants, vessels and shipbuilding. In particular, the performance of the valve is an important factor that can influence the performance of the entire system. Therefore, in this basic study to establish a national technical qualification in the domestic field of valve maintenance, demands for the fields of valves and major congruence were analyzed focusing on the industrial facility curriculum of Korea Polytechnics, and level-differentiated trial examinations were applied to relevant majors to standardize the developed valve tester. The trial examination result displayed that in the highest level of difficulty, in the medium level of difficulty and in the lowest level of difficulty, the pass rate was 0%, 17.86% and 39.29% respectively.

Power steering gear is the part of an automobile. That converts circular movement of steering wheel into lateral movement of rack for changing driving direction. Recently power steering gear gets more common. A Korean company manufactures a speed sensitive power steering gear, which provides variable steering feel depending on speed of the car. However, the Broens company in Australia produces and exports the test equipments for manufacturing power steering valves. Some Korean companies import the test equipments from Broens and the maintenance cost gets increasing. The purpose of this study is development of the valve balance tester to measure the valve torque of the power steering gear. This study designed and manufactured a chuck and a jig of the valve balance tester to take hold of the power steering valve using CAE analysis.