Course detail
Industrial automation
FEKT-BPC-PPAAcad. year: 2019/2020
Overview of process instrumentation, standardized device interfaces, sensors and actuators. Overview of process control levels. Overview of industrial communications, industrial protocols and networks. Reliability, safety, and real-time systems.
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Learning outcomes of the course unit
- divide and describe the function of automation devices in automation system,
- divide the process and control intrumentation devices and describe their properties,
- describe the servomechanism, stepper and other selected drives,
- apply the selected devices of process and control instrumentation including main types of drives,
- divide and characterize basic pneumatic and hydraulic instrumentation,
- describe process control levels (control level, SCADA, MES, ERP),
- design and implement basic industrial control applications and HMI systems,
- describe the standardized interfaces of process instrumentation,
- describe the ISO/OSI model,
- characterize the basic fieldbus and protocols,
- describe briefly ethernet and industrial ethernet, advantages and disadvantages,
- describe advantages and disadvantages of real-time operating systems,
- know the terms reliability, safety, and security.
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Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes
60 points from examination
For credit:
minimum 20 points from labs
For examination:
minimum 30 points from 60 accessable
Course curriculum
1. Introduction to industrial automation - overview of automation control system levels.
2. Process instrumentation - standardized symbols, overview of sensors and actuators.
3. Process instrumentation - motors and motion control (frequency inverter, servo).
4. Control instrumentation - PLC, DCS, IPC, industrial controllers, embedded systems.
5. Operator control level - SCADA/HMI.
6. MES and ERP systems, databases.
7. Industrial communication - buses and protocols. Industrial Ethernet.
8. Reliability, safety, security, and industrial standards.
9. Real-time operating systems.
10. Industrial robots and CNC.
11. Modern trends - magnetic motors, micro-motors, or pneumatic motors.
Laboratory training:
week 1. - Introduction to laboratory and projects.
week 2.-11. - Individual working-out of the projects.
week 12. - Presentation of the selected project.
Work placements
Aims
Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
Recommended optional programme components
Prerequisites and corequisites
- recommended prerequisite
Electrical Engineering 1 - recommended prerequisite
Electrical Engineering 2 - recommended prerequisite
Sensors - recommended prerequisite
Introduction to Control Engineering and Cybernetics
Basic literature
COLLINS, Kevin. PLC Programming for Industrial Automation. Exposure, 2006. ISBN-13: 978-1846854965.
LANDRYOVÁ, Lenka, PAVELEK, Martin. Návrh procesních systémů. Ostrava, 1996
MACAULAY, Tyson and SINGER, Bryan L. Cybersecurity for Industrial Control Systems: SCADA, DCS, PLC, HMI, and SIS. Auerbach Publications, 1 edition (December 13, 2011). ISBN-13: 978-1439801963.
PATRICK, Dale R. and FARDO, Stephen W. Industrial Process Control Systems. The Fairmont Press, Inc., 2009. ISBN-13: 978-0881735925.
STENERSON, Jon. Industrial Automation and Process Control. Prentice Hall, 1 edition (September 27, 2002). ISBN-13: 978-0130330307.
ZEZULKA František, FIEDLER Petr, BRADÁČ Zdeněk. Prostředky průmyslové automatizace. Elektronické texty, Brno, 2004.
ZEZULKA František, HYNČICA Ondřej. Průmyslový Ethernet. Automa. 2007, 8. ISSN 1210-9592.
Recommended reading
Elearning
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Laboratory exercise
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Elearning