Course detail
Industrial Automation
FEKT-BPA-PPAAcad. year: 2024/2025
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
Entry knowledge
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
Students can obtain 40 points for the activity in computer exercises and individual assignments. The final writen exam is awarded by 60 points (maximally).
Evaluation of activities is specified by a regulation, which is issued by the lecturer responsible for the course annually.
Aims
Student is able to:
- 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.
Study aids
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
Classification of course in study plans
Type of course unit
Lecture
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
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 (valve, cylinder).
5. Control instrumentation - PLC, DCS, IPC, industrial controllers, embedded systems.
6. Operator control level - SCADA/HMI.
7. MES and ERP systems, databases.
8. Industrial communication - buses and protocols. Industrial Ethernet.
9. Reliability, safety, security, and industrial standards.
10. Real-time operating systems.
11. Modern trends - digitization, Industry 4.0.
12. Summary
Laboratory exercise
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
2. – 13. week – individual project