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Apr 27, 2024
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MEC 225 - Automated Equipment
Credits: 3
2 Lecture Hours 2 Lab Hours
Description
This course provides students with the opportunity to integrate skills in electronics, mechanical systems and automation programming to perform tasks in a small-scale manufacturing facility. Students integrate inventory management, the internet of things into a physical production system. Radio frequency identification (RFID) tracking is leveraged to close feedback loops in production line with mobile robots and machining equipment. Students program systems to perform full-scale production activity including raw material loading, machine tending, transportation, finishing, warehousing and packaging. In addition to working with pick-and-place robots, students program automated storage and retrieval systems (ASRS), automated ground vehicles (AGVs) and other advanced devices.
Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of the course, the student will:
- Create diagrams of advanced manufacturing processing lines, with labeled inputs, outputs and electrical, pneumatic, hydraulic and physical interfaces.
- Define access points to allow software from multiple vendors to interact.
- Simulate and deploy an inventory management system using smart sensors and technologies.
- Integrate an AGV into an automated system to connect physically disparate pieces of equipment.
- Set up safety parameters to allow humans to collaborate with the automated manufacturing system.
- Create technical documentation that describes an advanced manufacturing system for third-party reference.
- Optimize a system design to improve throughput for parts production.
Listed Topics
- Automated equipment
- Manufacturing execution systems
- Digital interfaces and application programming interfaces (APIs)
- Throughput and productivity metrics
- Safety and workcell design
- Collaborative robots
- System optimization
- Design document creation
Reference Materials
Instructor-approved textbook and materials.
Students who successfully complete this course acquire general knowledge, skills and abilities that align with CCAC’s definition of an educated person. Specifically, this course fulfills these General Education Goals: - Critical Thinking & Problem Solving
- Technological Competence
Approved By: Dr. Quintin B. Bullock Date Approved: 3/30/2023
Last Reviewed: 3/30/2023
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