Industrial Automation
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The official GTU curriculum for Industrial Automation (subject code 2180807) as prescribed for EEE · Semester 8 divides the course into 2 units, covering 40 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 (2180807)Unit 1 General Concepts
- General concepts of the industrial production
- Concepts of production systems and production processes
- Automation production systems and their classification
- Architecture of Industrial Automation Systems. 4 10-15%
Unit 2 Control Technologies in Automation
- Industrial Control Systems
- Process Industries Versus Discrete-Manufacturing Industries
- Continuous Versus Discrete Control
- Computer Process and its Forms
- Controlled variable
- controlling parameters
- process equation load
- process, lag, self-regulation
- control lag, variable range
- dead time
- cycling. 8 20-25% 3. \Introduction to Automatic Control: Characteristic of different discrete controller mode
- two position mode
- multi position mode
- floating control mode
- introduction of different continuous controller mode
- derivative, PI, PID Control
- PID Control Tuning
- Feed forward Control Ratio Control
- Time Delay Systems and Inverse Response Systems
- Special Control Structures
- Introduction to Sequence Control, PLC, RLL, Sequence Control
- Scan Cycle
- Simple RLL Programs
- Sequence Control
- More RLL Elements
- RLL Syntax
- A Structured Design Approach to Sequence Control
- PLC Hardware Environment 14 30-40% 4
- Control System Components: Flow Control Valves
- Hydraulic Control Systems – I, Hydraulic Control Systems – II, Industrial Hydraulic Circuit
- Pneumatic Control Systems – I, Pneumatic Systems – II, Energy Savings with Variable Speed Drives
- Introduction to CNC Machines 8 20-25% 5
- Distributed Control System: Evaluation of DCS, system architecture-hierarchical of DCS at function levels
- Database organization
- system implementation concepts
- System elements- fields