Industrial Automation
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Industrial Automation Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Industrial Automation (subject code 3170925) as prescribed for Electrical Engineering · Semester 7 divides the course into 4 units, covering 28 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 (3170925)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
- Role of computers in measurement and control
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 Programmable logic controllers
- Programmable controllers
- Programmable logic controllers
- Analog digital input and output modules
- PLC programming
- Ladder diagram
- Sequential flow chart
- PLC Communication and networking
- PLC selection
- PLC Installation
- Advantage of using PLC for Industrial automation
- Application of PLC to process control industries
Unit 4 Distributed Control System
- Overview of DCS, DCS software configuration
- DCS communication
- DCS Supervisory Computer Tasks
- DCS integration with PLC and Computers
- Features of DCS, Advantages of DCS. 7 Subject Code: 3170925 w.e.f
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