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Teaching Industrial Automation: An Approach for a Practical Lab Course

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Falk Salewski,

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WESE'15: Proceedings of the WESE'15: Workshop on Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems Education

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While Embedded Systems are present in industrial automation for several decades already, the scope and complexity of their applications is constantly growing. In addition, further aspects gain importance. One aspect is that today's automation systems are more and more interconnected, e.g. for the exchange of status and manufacturing data. Another aspect is that the use of already existing software components is important to meet cost and time-to-market requirements. This paper describes a lab course for industrial automation based on PLC systems addressing these aspects. In this course, six groups of students work together on the automation of a model factory consisting of six manufacturing stages. Challenges resulting from the interaction between the groups could be solved by a software framework and a specific hardware setting presented in this paper. According to this approach, students are faced with the realistic scenario of starting a development on basis of existing software components. Further possibilities within the scope of this course are discussed as well as the transfer to other lab course settings in the embedded systems domain.

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Mäkiö EAzmat FAhmad BHarrison RColombo A(2021)T-CHAT educational framework for teaching cyber-physical system engineeringEuropean Journal of Engineering Education10.1080/03043797.2021.200887947:4(606-635)Online publication date: 13-Dec-2021
https://doi.org/10.1080/03043797.2021.2008879
Makio-Marusik E(2017)Current trends in teaching cyber physical systems engineering: A literature review2017 IEEE 15th International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN)10.1109/INDIN.2017.8104826(518-525)Online publication date: Jul-2017
https://doi.org/10.1109/INDIN.2017.8104826

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DOI:10.1145/2832920

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Sanchez GKataria D(2022)Teaching IIoT through Hands-on ActivitiesInsights Into Global Engineering Education After the Birth of Industry 5.010.5772/intechopen.100217Online publication date: 20-Apr-2022
https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.100217
Mäkiö EAzmat FAhmad BHarrison RColombo A(2021)T-CHAT educational framework for teaching cyber-physical system engineeringEuropean Journal of Engineering Education10.1080/03043797.2021.200887947:4(606-635)Online publication date: 13-Dec-2021
https://doi.org/10.1080/03043797.2021.2008879
Makio-Marusik E(2017)Current trends in teaching cyber physical systems engineering: A literature review2017 IEEE 15th International Conference on Industrial Informatics (INDIN)10.1109/INDIN.2017.8104826(518-525)Online publication date: Jul-2017
https://doi.org/10.1109/INDIN.2017.8104826

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