Industrial Automation
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Industrial Automation Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Industrial Automation (subject code 2171103) as prescribed for ECE · Semester 7 divides the course into 3 units, covering 22 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (2171103)Unit 1 Introduction
- Automation overview
- Requirement of automation systems
- Architecture of Industrial Automation system
- Introduction of PLC and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA)
- Industrial bus systems: modbus & profibus
Unit 2 Automation components
- Sensors for temperature
- humidity and pH measurement
- process control valves
- power electronics devices DIAC
- power MOSFET and IGBT
- Introduction of DC and AC servo drives for motion control
Unit 3 Computer aided measurement and control systems
- Role of computers in measurement and control
- Elements of computer aided measurement and control
- man-machine interface
- computer aided process control hardware
- process related interfaces
- Communication and networking
- Industrial communication systems
- Data transfer techniques
- Computer aided process control software
- Computer based data acquisition system
- Internet of things (IoT) for plant automation