Industrial Controls and Manufacturing

This course is no longer offered

(3-0-0-4)

CMPE Degree: This course is for the CMPE degree.

EE Degree: This course is for the EE degree.

Lab Hours: 0 supervised lab hours and 0 unsupervised lab hours.

Technical Interest Group(s) / Course Type(s): Cross-listed courses, Systems and Controls

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Prerequisites: ECE 3085/3550

Catalog Description

Students are introduced to industrial controls and the fundamentals of
manufacturing with hands-on experience based on lab projects using
industry software and hardware for communications and control.
Crosslisted with TFE 4761.

Textbook(s)

Automation, Production Systems, and Computer Integrated Manufacturing

Course Outcomes

Not Applicable

Strategic Performance Indicators (SPIs)

Not Applicable

Topical Outline

Process Control (5 weeks) Introduction to process control Feedback control Tracking control PID control Digital controllers Adaptive control Applications Discrete Logic Control (4 weeks) State diagrams Boolean logic Ladder logic diagrams PLC implementation Applications of discrete logic control Fundamentals of Manufacturing (2 and 1/2 weeks) Types of production Production concepts and models Flow line analysis Line balancing Manufacturing Control Systems (2 and 1/2 weeks) Hierarchial control Network communications Production control