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1. Determine the conditions or operating cycle of machines and automatic equipment used in mechanical manufacturing, complying with the applicable regulations for occupational risk prevention and environmental protection.
2. Establish the type of actuator and regulation equipment for the automation of the operational processes of the product, considering the applicable regulations for occupational risk prevention and environmental protection.
3. Carry out the power and control schemes of the pneumatic, hydraulic, electro-pneumatic and electro-hydraulic circuits, to automate the processes in mechanical manufacturing, considering the applicable regulations for occupational risk prevention and environmental protection.
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Contents |
1. Basic principles of automation:
-Physical fundamentals in electricity, pneumatics and hydraulics.
-Basic characteristics of automatic systems and processes.
-Evolution and prospective of automatic systems.
-Characteristics of continuous and sequential processes.
-Automation systems in processes for obtaining products.
2. Design and representation of automations:
-Process representation techniques.
-Movement diagrams.
-Control diagrams.
-Flowcharts.
-Functional diagrams: GRAFCET.
3. Elements for automation:
-Standard elements (types, characteristics, selection criteria, calculation).
-Control systems, sensors, detectors, regulation and PLC.
-Actuators (linear, rotary, proportional, etc...
-Manipulators, types and applications-
-Fixing of actuators depending on the application, movements and efforts-
-Couplings between actuator and application to the product.
4. Instrumentation:
-Basic instruments for measuring magnitudes in automatisms.
-Instruments and tools for adjustment and verification of systems and components.
5. Automatic electrical control systems:
-Components of automatic electrical systems.
-Standard symbology.
-Typology, functions and characteristics of the equipment, elements and devices.
-Signal-emitting elements, treatment, control and acting.
-Safety regulations.
6. Automatic electro-pneumatic control systems:
-Principles, physical laws and properties of gases.
-Pneumatic technology: technical and functional characteristics.
-Parts of the electro-pneumatic installations.
-Production, distribution and preparation of compressed air.
-Standard symbology.
-Typology, functions and characteristics of the equipment, elements and devices.
-Elements emitting signals, treatment, control and acting.
-Safety regulations.
7. Automatic electro-hydraulic control systems:
-Principles, physical laws and properties of liquids.
-Hydraulic technology: technical and functional characteristics.
-Parts of electro-hydraulic installations.
-Production, distribution and preparation of oil under pressure.
-Standard symbology.
-Typology, functions and characteristics of the equipment, elements and devices.
-Signal-emitting elements, treatment, control and acting.
-Safety regulations.
8. Fundamentals of digital electronics:
•Analog and digital processing of information.
•Boolean algebra: variables and operations.
•Logic gates: type, functions and characteristics.
•Standard symbology.
9. Analog-digital and digital-analog conversion electronic circuits:
•Analog and digital signals and their treatment.
•Principles of analog-digital A/D conversion.
•Principles of digital-analog D/A conversion.
10. Industrial computers:
•Computer systems: structure, typology, configurations and characteristics.
•Central unit and peripherals.
•Communication and parallel ports.
11. Computer networks:
•Structure and characteristics.
• Organization of the message: synchronous and asynchronous.
•Typology, parts and elements of the networks.
•Local networks of automata.
12. Composition of local networks:
•Servers, distributors and routers.
•Work stations.
•Cards for communications, cables and connectors.
• Concentrators and multiplexers.
•Access point.
• Man-machine dialogue.
13. Data transmission:
•Analog and digital transmission.
•Physical means of transmission: fiber optics, twisted pair.
•System terminals.
•Remote control systems and telemetry.
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