Description

Theory
2

Laboratory
2

Instructors

Antonio Ferreira da Silva

Contents

SY1: Digital logic. Numbers and data. Digital and analogical systems. Boolean algebra. Boolean logic design.
SY2: Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs). Conception of an automatism. Caracteristics of an automatism. Structure of an automatism. implementation of an automatism. Graphical methods for the description of an automatism. Structure of a PLC.
SY3: Grafcet. Steps. Transitions. Receptivities.
SY4: Ladder logic. Ladder logic programming. Counters. Timers. Comparators.

Learning Outcomes

This course aims to give students a real contact with technologies and equipments commonly used in industrial automated systems. There are equipments with a fast evolution, whose knowledge and practice are essential
for a Mechanical Engineer.
LO1: Provide students with the integrative concept associated with the exercise of Mechanical Engineering; give to the students an experience to the real working environment, recreating in laboratory real problems.
LO2: Provide students with the necessary knowledge (in terms of automation programmed) in industrial environments to solve problems that involve the use of a PLC as a controller.