Automation Engineering

Automation Engineering Basic Concepts

►Automation as a field involves creating and applying technologies that control or monitor production and delivery. There are automation opportunities in both product- and service-oriented industries. Two professional associations, the International Society of Automation and the Automation Federation, are involved in promoting and supporting the field of automation.✦

►The duties of an automation engineer include designing, programming, simulating, and testing automated machinery or processes that are intended to complete precise tasks — for example, robots used in packaging, food processing, or vehicle manufacturing. Automation engineers work with automated machinery from concept to prototype, and are responsible for providing detailed documentation including design specifications that enable the production or application of their products.✦

【Topics Covered in this App are Listed Below】

⇢ Introduction of Automation Engineering

⇢ The automation equipment

⇢ Automation architectures

⇢ Choice of automated equipment

⇢ Tower crane

⇢ Conveyors and revolving tables

⇢ Electrical diagram

⇢ Electrical power supply

⇢ Motors and loads

⇢ Direct current motors commonly named DC motors

⇢ Other speed control systems

⇢ Types of operation

⇢ Valves and electric jacks

⇢ Asynchronous motor starting systems

⇢ Introduction to Industrial Automation and Control

⇢ Economy of Scale and Economy of Scope

⇢ Types of Automation Systems

⇢ Higher Levels of Automation Systems

⇢ System Figures of Merit

⇢ Directional Control Valves, Switches and Gauges

⇢ Answers, Remarks and Hints to Points to Ponder

⇢ Direct current and alternating current

⇢ Electrical resistance and electrical power

⇢ Electrical power

⇢ How a solenoid works ?

⇢ How an electrical capacitor works ?

⇢ How a diode works ?

⇢ How switches work and their structure ?

⇢ Relays and contactors

⇢ Function and structure of the power supply unit

⇢ Measurements in an electrical circuit

⇢ Voltage measurement

⇢ Current measurement

⇢ Resistance measurement

⇢ Sensors

⇢ Magnetic sensors

⇢ Electronic sensors

⇢ Inductive proximity sensors

⇢ Capacitive proximity sensors

⇢ Optical proximity sensors

⇢ Through-beam sensors & Retro-reflective sensors

⇢ Diffuse sensors

⇢ Pressure sensors

⇢ Fundamentals of pneumatics

⇢ Pressure

⇢ Properties of air

⇢ Individual components in a pneumatic control system and their functions

⇢ Functions and features of actuators (pneumatic cylinders)

⇢ Speed regulation with single-acting cylinders

⇢ Speed regulation with double-acting cylinders

⇢ Functions and features of pneumatic valves

⇢ Pneumatic grippers

⇢ Accuracy & Repeatability

⇢ Definition of Terminology

⇢ Static Pressure

⇢ Dynamic Pressure

⇢ Total Pressure

⇢ Piezoelectric

⇢ Linear Variable Differential Transformer

⇢ Resistance Temperature Detectors (RTD's)

⇢ Thermistors