Industrial Systems

The industrial technology training systems exposes the student to many important aspects of robotics, conveyors, process control and storage systems. The training systems are specifically designed to afford a modular approach to meet the requirements of a wide variety of curricula.

The training systems cover the following topics:

• History and usage of storage systems
• Storage methods: LIFO, FIFO
• Cartesian and polar axis systems, absolute and relative coordinates
• Basics of robotics
• Introduction to dedicated software control
• Writing and running storage programs to solve storage problems
• The plotter
• Writing and running plotter programs
• Process control at home and in industry
• Fundamental control terminology and block diagrams
• Controlled quantities: flow rate and level
• Solve a process control problem using time and level as controlled variables
• How to use AND, OR and NOT control functions
• Debugging a malfunctioning program
• The conveyor and its applications in industry
• Fundamentals of automation
• Senses and sensors
• Introduction to robotics
• Decomposing required robotic action to a sequence of events
• Robot programming commands and instruction set
• Writing programs to control robot movement