Industrial automation
Course content and structure
Entry requirements
Basic knowledge in the subjects of automatic control (corresponding to one of the courses R0001E Basic Automatic Control, R0002E Modelling and Control, R0004E Modelling and Control, or R0005E Measurement and feedback control), basic electronics (E0003E Circuit Theory or E0013E Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering), mathematics (M0018M Linear Analysis) and programming (D0009E Introduction to Programmming, D0010E Object - oriented Programming and Design) is presumed. Good knowledge in English equivalent to English 6.
Selection
The selection is based on 30-285 credits
Course Aim
After the course, the student shall be able to:
Select sensors and actuators for synthesizing solutions for Industrial Automation problems
Analyze a real life problem from an industrial automation perspective, understand what is effective, what is not, judge based on an engineering and cost oriented thinking
Identify and Select proper sensory and actuation equipments for synthesizing and integrating industrial automation tasks
Integrate and Synthesize a classical relay based industrial automation
Integrate, Synthesize and Program a PLC based industrial automation
Design a PCB based Industrial Automation
Analyze, Integrate and Combine Electro Pneumatic-Hydraulic Automation with relay or PLC based industrial automation
Select and Utilize Industrial Networks for Industrial Automation Networks
Tune PID controllers for the Process Control Industry
Contents
The course covers a number of central concepts of Industrial Automation such as: basic automation elements, hardware components for Automation and Process Control, the latch principle, Industrial Automation synthesis, logical design for automation, electro pneumatic automation, industrial networks, basic programming in PLC and the PID at the industry.