Automation in Production

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                                            Contents                       

Contact Hours

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Unit 1:

Automation in Production System, Principles and Strategies of Automation, Basic Elements of an Automated System, Advanced Automation Functions, Levels of Automations. Production Economics: Methods of Evaluating Investment Alternatives, Costs in Manufacturing, Break Even Analysis, Unit cost of production, Cost of Manufacturing Lead time and Work-in-process.

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2

Unit 2:

Automated Flow lines, Methods of Work part Transport, Transfer Mechanism, Buffer Storage, Control Functions, and Automation for Machining Operations, Design and Fabrication Considerations. Analysis of Automated Flow Lines: General Terminology and Analysis, Analysis of Transfer Lines Without Storage, Partial Automation, Computer Simulation of Automated Flow Lines.

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3

Unit 3:

The material handling function, Types of Material Handling Equipment, Analysis for Material Handling Systems, Design of the System, Conveyor Systems, Automated Guided Vehicle Systems.

Automated Storage Systems: Storage System Performance, Automated Storage/Retrieval Systems, Work-in-process Storage, Interfacing Handling and Storage with Manufacturing. Product identification system: Barcode, RFID etc.

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4

Unit 4:

 Fundamental of Electronics, Introduction to Electrical Circuit (Ohm’s

law, Current Transmission, etc.), Introduction to Electronics Components (Capacitor, Resistor, Inductor, Diode). Introduction to Arduino Interface and Hardware and Installation, Arduino Language: Variables, Conditions, Loop Function, Operator, Electronics Devices Control using Arduino, Reading a simple schematic. Voltage dividers: resistor/resistor, resistor/switch, resistor/photoresistor, resistor/LED.  Basics of multimeter, pullup resistor, LED with dropping resistor. up a photor

esistor voltage divider (as basic analog sensor).

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Unit 5:

Introduction to Sensors, Components, Application of What is Sensor?,  Various Basic Industrial Sensors-IR- Analog Sensor, IR Digital Sensor, Color IR _TSOP Sensor, Light Sensor, Sound Sensor, DTMF Module, Selection of Sensor, Basic working Technique of Sensor, Application of Sensor, How to Interface Sensor, How to Design Analog/Digital Sens. Interfacing to Actuator, What is Actuator, DC Motor, DC Geared Motor, Stepper Motor, Servo Motor.

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Total

45