Distributed Control in a Smart Factory
Duration
- One semester
Contact hours
- 100
On-campus unit delivery combines face-to-face and digital learning.
Aims and objectives
Courses with unit
Associate Degree of Applied Technologies (AB-APPTEC)Unit information in detail
- Assessment, general skills outcomes and content.
Assessment
| Types | Individual or Group task | Weighting | Assesses attainment of these ULOs |
| Case study | Individual | 10-20% | 1,3,5 |
| Progressive Test | Individual | 20-30% | 2 |
| Project | Group | 40-60% | 1,2,3,4,5 |
| Work Portfolio | Group | 10-20% | 1,2,3,4,5 |
General skills outcomes
Content
LABVIEW
• Controls and indicators
• Loops
• Arrays ,Clusters
• Conditional statements
• Strings and file I/O
• SubVI
• Graphics(buttons, charts and graphs )
• Interfacing to OPC-UA
Advanced PLC Programming
• Function Block Diagram
• Sequential function chart
• Structured Text
• CODESYS
Control Systems
• Open loop and closed loop control Systems
• Proportional ,Integral, Derivative(PID) control system
· Fundamentals of PID control
· PID practical tuning
SCADA systems in industry (e.g. Fluidic system)
• Architecture
• Communications
• Common system components (e.g. RTU/PLC, Alarms, HMI)
• Alarms in SCADA
• Human Machine Interface(HMI) Design using LABVIEW
• Logging/tagging control variables for SCADA implementation
• Implementing simple SCADA control using LABVIEW
MES
Detailed planning of production processes and resources. Direct connection to the distributed systems of the process level
• management, control, steering and control in real-time
• Recording of operating-, machine- and personnel data
• production planning and production control
• Planning and managing of production resources
• Recording of the performance parameters of the production (OEE, …)
• Machine to Machine communication
Introduction to Enterprise resource planning (SAP system)Study resources
- References.