IN4005 Industrial automation
Lecturers: Ir. M. Sepers
Hours and credits: 0/0/3/0 lectures and 28 hours practical work; 3 ECTS + 1ECTS.
Material: M.P. Groover, "Automation, Production Systems, and Computer Integrated Manufacturing", second edition, Prentice-Hall.
Goal: This course is intended to provide a technical survey of important topics in production automation and related systems. The emphasis is on information aspects of industrial automation.
Contents: The topics include automation, production systems, numerical control, industrial robotics, automated material handling and storage, group technology, flexible manufacturing systems and production data management.
Practical work: Exercise with the Pro/ENGINEER modelling system for NC-programming. Exercise with GRASP for offline robot-programming.
Examination: Written examination.