Automation Project

Level control of experimental setup. Practical implementation of PID controller in PLC. Design of HMI/SCADA including alarm system and process tuning. Configuring network communication between setup, user interface and controller. The role as a project manager and a team member. Interaction between the subject areas in other courses in the same term.

Knowledge: The candidate can explain

• how an automation project can be planned and executed.

Skills: The candidate can

• demonstrate in practice the learning objectives of other engineering courses.
• manage a project and be a good team member.
• convey to others how a project was planned and executed.
• convey to others a given technical problem, and its practical solution.

Digitisation: The course contributes in enabling the candidate to use modern computer tools as a resource in the aforementioned skills.

Ethics: The subject contributes to increased awareness of working in groups.

Innovation: The course contributes knowledge of practical project work and technical communication.

Team work, project meetings, reports, presentations. Only to a small extent lectures.