| CODE | MFE3107 | |||||||||
| TITLE | Industrial Automation | |||||||||
| UM LEVEL | 03 - Years 2, 3, 4 in Modular Undergraduate Course | |||||||||
| ECTS CREDITS | 5 | |||||||||
| DEPARTMENT | Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering | |||||||||
| DESCRIPTION | In this study-unit, the following topics will be discussed: - Introduction to industrial automation - Manufacturing operations and their relation to the use of automation - Industrial control systems - Sensors, actuators, analogue-to-digital and digital-to-analogue converters, input/output devices - Numerical control - Robotics - Programmable logic controllers - Automated storage and retrieval systems - Automatic identification and data capture - Automated production lines - Automated assembly systems and design for automation - Automated inspection systems - Implementation of automation Study-unit Aims: The aim of this study-unit is to give a broad overview of many of the aspects of industrial automation, including available technologies and methodologies and their applicability and implementation. Learning Outcomes: 1. Knowledge & Understanding: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to: - Appreciate the importance of industrial automation to enhance manufacturing competitiveness, and explain its role, applicability, benefits and drawbacks. - Describe qualitatively the various automation technologies that are available, and explain their principles of operation, role, applicability, benefits and drawbacks. - Appreciate that practical automation systems often involve a synthesis of various constituent technologies to form the overall system, and discuss how such systems may be developed and analyzed. - Discuss how products may be designed to facilitate automated manufacture. - Discuss strategies for the implementation of automation in a manufacturing plant. 2. Skills: By the end of the study-unit the student will be able to address confidently the challenge as part of a team, in a discrete manufacturing environment, where: either - an automated production or assembly process or line must be developed, evaluated and/or set up for a new product or product family; or - the migration of a manual production or assembly system to one that is automated must be developed, evaluated and/or implemented. Main Text/s and any supplementary readings: Required text: - Automation, Production Systems, and Computer-Integrated Manufacturing, 3rd Edition, M.P. Groover, Prentice-Hall, 2008. ISBN 0132070731. Reference texts: - Robots and Manufacturing Automation, 2nd Edition, C. Ray Asfahl, John Wiley and Sons, 1992. ISBN 0471553913. - Manufacturing: Design, Production, Automation, and Integration, B. Benhabib, Marcel Dekker, 2003. ISBN 0824742737. |
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| STUDY-UNIT TYPE | Lect, Ind Study, Group Learn, Seminar & Practicum | |||||||||
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| LECTURER/S | Emmanuel Francalanza (Co-ord.) Claire Seguna |
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