Course detail
Industrial Automation
FEKT-BPA-PPAAcad. year: 2022/2023
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. Overview of the modern methods and technologies for industrial automation.
Language of instruction
Number of ECTS credits
Mode of study
Guarantor
Offered to foreign students
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,
- know the modern methods of the indutrial automation.
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Co-requisites
Planned learning activities and teaching methods
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
submitted individual project with minimum 20 points earned
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. Process instrumentation - pneumatic components.
5. Industrial communication - ISO/OSI model, buses and protocols. Industrial Ethernet.
6. Control instrumentation - PLC, DCS, IPC, industrial controllers, embedded systems.
7. Operator control level - SCADA/HMI.
8. Basic programming of PLC nad HMI.
9. Advanced PLC programming.
10. MES, ERP, industrial information systems, databases.
11. Reliability, functional safety, cybersecurity, and industrial standards.
12. Real-time operating systems.
13. Modern trends - Industry 4.0, virtual commissioning, digital twin.
Laboratory training:
week 1. - Introduction to laboratory and projects.
week 2.-12. - Individual working-out of the projects and presentation.
Work placements
Aims
Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
Recommended optional programme components
Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
COLLINS, Kevin. PLC Programming for Industrial Automation. Exposure, 2006. ISBN-13: 978-1846854965.
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.
Recommended reading
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