Prerequisite/Recommended prerequisite for participation in the module

Content, progress and pedagogy of the module

Through this course, the students are introduced to flexible, demand-driven and customer-defined manufacturing automation. The course outlines non-trivial application of robotic systems to customer-configured manufacturing of industrially produced consumer items.

Students who complete the module:

Learning objectives

Knowledge

• Must have a basic knowledge and understanding of theories and terminologies regarding process automation
• Must have an understanding of highly flexible and integrated automation technologies (e.g. industrial robots, vision, automatic programming)
• Must have an understanding of potential and limitation of flexible automation manufacturing
• Must have understanding of elementary logistics of adaptable production systems

Skills

• Must be able to use various technologies to realize flexible manufacturing systems (vision, robotics, automatic programming)
• Must be able to make a concept design of a whole flexible manufacturing system
• Must be able to integrate and implement elements of a flexible manufacturing system into a small and limited manufacturing system

Competences

• Must have the ability to overview consequences of process automation
• Must be able to undertake product definition according to configurable products and adaptive automation methods, in close collaboration with production and logistics specialists

Type of instruction

See general description of the types of instruction described in the introduction to Chapter 3.

Exam

Exams