• Course Title: Production Automation
• Course Code: (MT-321)
• Credit Hours: 1
• Instructor: Engr Muhammad Zain ul Aabdin
• Email: [email protected]

INTRODUCTION TO COURSE

Production automation course trains students to troubleshoot, repair and maintain automated industrial equipment, such as computer numerical control (CNC) equipment and robots. Automation covers applications ranging from a household thermostat controlling a boiler, to a large industrial control system with tens of thousands of input measurements and output control signals. In control complexity, it can range from simple on-off control to multi-variable high-level algorithms.

COURSE PRE-REQUISITES

• Workshop Techology
• Manufacturing Engineering

TEXTBOOK

Lab Manual

LEARNING OUTCOMES

The aim of the course is to provide a theoreticaland practical overview on computerized manufacturing equipment focusing on system levelautomation.

Upon successful completion of the course, the student will be able to:

• Enable the students to understand basics of automation & CNC machines
• Enable the students apply new techniques in production engineering
• Understand the main programming principles for large automated systems.
• Understand the current and emerging automation and system architectures as well as their application context.

EVALUATION CRITERION