The aim of the course is to provide students with an understanding of, and the knowledge and skills to solve, discrete industrial process automation problems.
1. To provide students with an understanding of the basic principles of operation of the structural elements (information input elements, drives, automatic control and mechanical components) of automated equipment in the field of machine and apparatus construction.
2. To equip students with the ability, depending on the degree of complexity of the industrial automation task, to select technically sound structural elements at a conceptual or detailed level, as well as the ability to design the overall system structure.
3. to develop the ability to write down the intended operating algorithm for discrete systems It looks at the possibilities of automation in the basic processes of industrial production - product design, manufacturing, distribution.
The fundamentals of automated equipment as mechatronic systems are examined. The elements of information input, electric, pneumatic and hydraulic drives, modern types of precision mechanics, as well as programmable devices are considered. A brief introduction to part orientation, feeding and inter-operation transport equipment is given. Industrial robot designs are discussed as examples of automatically functioning machines. The section on automated control of discrete-circuit machines deals with the types of control algorithm notation and their implementation by the simplest hard-logic and programmable means. The course concludes with examples of automation of some common technological processes.
