Course detail
Industrial automation
FEKT-BPC-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
Entry knowledge
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
60 points from examination
For points from laboratories:
submit protocols from laboritories (6 tasks with maximum 4 points per task) in time
submit the project protocol in time (maximum 16 points)
For credit:
minimum 20 points from labs overall
and submit all protocols from all laboritories (6 tasks)
and submit the project gaining minimum 8 out of 16 points
For examination:
minimum 25 points from 60 accessable
and good answer to all question from the list of the minimal knowledge (penzum)
Laboratory, projects.
The final exam is written with the possibility of an oral examination.
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
- 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
Classification of course in study plans
- Programme BPC-AMT Bachelor's 2 year of study, summer semester, compulsory
Type of course unit
Lecture
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
2. Sensors
3. Engines
4. Pneumatics + electrical diagrams
5. Communication networks
6. Controls - overview
7. Control devices - programming
8. Human-machine interface, project workshop
9. Management at a higher level
10. Safety in Industry
11. Modern methods in industry
12. Real Time Systems
13. Summary
Laboratory exercise
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
2nd - 7th week - Laboratory tasks
8th - 13th week - Individual project