Industrial Automation and Design Projects for Students

1. Automation &Production Technology

2. Projects

3. Marshmallow Towers • Students learned about group dynamics and the Engineering Design Process • How can we build the tallest structure while minimizing the budget?

4. Sample Designs

5. Sample Designs

6. Student Desk Re-Design • Students were asked to design the traditional desk to meet their needs.

7. Student Desk Re-Design • Students were asked to design the traditional desk to meet their needs.

8. Modules

9. Automated Material Handling Objectives Include: • Use manual controls to move the robot • Monitor the status of inputs and outputs • Select and record robot positions • Create a program that instructs the robot to go through a sequence of movements

10. Automated Material Handling Objectives Include: • Run and Edit a Scorbase program • Create a flow chart with branching statements • Create conditional branching statements in a program • Combine programs as subroutines • Software: Scorbase

11. CNC Machining Objectives Include: • Identify and locate important parts of the CNC mill • Use the control program to verify cutting paths • Type code to generate an NC file the CNC mill can understand. • Write NC code based on product drawings.

12. CNC Machining Objectives Include: • Define a toolpath from a given NC code. • Machine a part. • Create two mating CNC parts to fit together • Backplottoolpaths. • Software: Mastercam

13. Engineering Design Objectives Include: • Explain different ways to represent drawings. • Understand the use of drawing planes. • Use basic dimensioning and geometric relations to define a part. • Create a solid part. • Chamfer, fillet, and shell a solid. • Use dimensioning rules to create organized and comprehensible drawings.

14. Engineering Design Objectives Include: • Dimension drawings in 2-D • Apply geometric tolerances to a drawing. • Read and understand a blueprint. • Create a working drawing without the dimensions. • Software: SolidWorks

15. Industrial Electricity and Electronics Objectives Include: • Measure resistance and test for continuity using a multimeter. • Build series and parallel circuits on the breadboard. • Explain the characteristics of series and parallel circuits. • Understand the basic principle operations of a switch.

16. Industrial Electricity and Electronics Objectives Include: • Describe the concepts of NO and NC contacts. • Build circuits with different types of switch configurations. • Understand magnetic switches, vibrations detectors, and DIP switches. • Create and test AND, OR, NOR, and NAND logic circuits. • Create and test an astable 555 timer circuit.

17. Industrial Motor Controls Objectives Include: • Learn the difference between direct current and alternating current. • Learn the basic parts of a DC motor and how it operates. • Build and test a simple two-pole DC motor. • Identify the hand tools and instruments used by electricians. • Demonstrate the proper procedures for lockout/tagout.

18. Industrial Motor Controls Objectives Include: • Understand the trainer’s layout and assembly. • Strip and bend wire. • Use the multimeter to trace push buttons, a 3-position switch, indicator lights, and the control emergency stop button. • Mount and remove a contactor. • Wire a single-phase motor control circuit applying a start/stop continuous run application.

19. Industrial Pneumatics Objectives Include: • Understand the importance of working safely with pressurized components. • Simulate pneumatic circuit operations. • Build and operate a circuit diagram that requires a 3/2, normally open and closed. • Build and operate a circuit diagram that requires a double-acting cylinder. • Build and operate a circuit diagram that requires a 5/2-way valve, with selection switch.

20. Industrial Pneumatics Objectives Include: • Build and operate a circuit diagram that requires a 5/2-way valve, with selection switch, pneumatically operated. • Build and operate a circuit diagram that requires a 3/2-way roller lever valve, normally closed. • Build and operate a circuit diagram that requires a 2-pressure valve. • Software: FluidSim

21. Material Research Objectives Include: • Set up and conduct tests on the material tester. • Control the material tester using the manual control panel. • Set up the material tester to conduct compression tests. • Perform analysis on a simple model with multiple restraints. • Perform analysis on an assembly model and see how the temperature is distributed across the model.

22. Material Research Objectives Include: • Perform analysis on a simple sheet metal part to see the results of edge pressure compared to normal pressure on a face. • Set up the material tester to conduct tensile strength testing procedures. • Set up the material test to conduct compression tests and determine the hardness of plastic raw materials.

23. Mechanical Systems Objectives Include: • Identify tools and measuring devices used with the trainers. • Demonstrate how to properly use tools and measuring devices. • Measure the work load applied to electric motors. • Identify some of the electrical motors shafts. • Identify four of the different kinds of belts. • Check the belt tension. • Identify commonly used couplings. • Explore how the S-flex coupling works.

24. Mechanical Systems Objectives Include: • Identify several different types of pulleys. • Describe a gear ratio. • Identify several different sprockets. • Demonstrate how to align the shafts properly. • Demonstrate how to properly attach the U-joint to a shaft. • Demonstrate how to apply a load to different mechanical parts.