Mechanical Engineering

20ME51P- AUTOMATION AND ROBOTICS

In today's industrial landscape, manufacturing is rapidly adopting complete automation, with small and medium industries transitioning to PLC and SCADA technologies for efficient data acquisition and control. Automation systems enhance productivity, improve safety, and ensure better product quality by performing repetitive tasks with minimal human intervention. This course equips diploma engineers with essential theoretical and practical knowledge of PLC and SCADA, forming a foundation for specialization in industrial automation.

Course Outcomes (COs)

1. Identify the possibilities of automation in a production system and select the Hardware components required for Automation

2. Establish communication network by using industry Standard protocol (PLC).

3. Automate given production system for a required Application

4. Develop robot program for a specified process in an Automation

5. Integrate HMI, SCADA and IIOT in an automation system

Learning Resources

1. 1. Develop ladder program, interface IOs with PLC and Design HMI screen for following automation.

   2. Maintain the pressure head of the water Tank, which is used for filling the bottles moving on the conveyer.  Develop ladder program, interface IOs with PLC and Design HMI screen for following automation. Use load cell to detect material on the conveyer and automatically start moving to transport it another location.

   3. Develop ladder program, interface IOs with PLC and Design HMI screen for following automation. Select sample for Quality Check from the components moving on the conveyer. 

   4. Develop ladder program, interface IOs with PLC and Design HMI screen for following automation. Detect the empty bottle moving on the conveyer and removing it from the conveyer

   5. Develop ladder program, interface IOs with PLC and Design HMI screen for following automation. Counting the parts moving on the conveyer.

   6. Develop ladder program, interface IOs with PLC and Design HMI screen for following automation. Change Preset Value of Counter According to Various Products.

   7. Develop ladder program, interface IOs with PLC and Design HMI screen for following automation. Count and Pack Parts from Conveyor 

   8. Develop ladder program, interface IOs with PLC and Design HMI screen for following automation. Automate drilling machine

   9. Develop ladder program, interface IOs with PLC and Design HMI screen for following automation. Continuous stirred tank reactor of a chemical plant.

   10. Develop ladder program, interface IOs with PLC and Design HMI screen for following automation. Drain same products from 2 tanks.

   11. Develop a program in VAL II to command a PUMA robot to unload a cylindrical part unloading or loading operation

   12. Write a program for pick and place operation using teach pendent

   13. Write a simple robot program for Welding assuming required criteria

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