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Learning Outcomes

Have a good appreciation of practical industrial pneumatic and electromechanical logic components.
Able to read and understand pneumatic circuits and electromechanical ladder diagrams.
Able to design and implement such circuits for sequencing problem.
Explain major functions of a programmable logic controller.
Able to program a PLC.

Teaching Modes

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Week 1 - Week 10
Weekday Time Venue

Wednesday 18:00 - 21:30 LT7

Tutorial:
- As and when needed from Week 1 - Week 10
- Vanue: Same as Lecture
- Time: Same as Lecture
Hands On Session:
- Week 11 - Week 13, Monday and Wednesday
- Vanue: EA-04-07
- Date & Time: Refer to Practical Works for schedule

TopWelcome to ME3242E/TME3242 Automation...
Students will learn the approaches used in the design of sequencing circuits applied to machine-level industrial automation. Special emphasis is given to electromechanical and pneumatic systems. After a quick review of input sensing, pneumatic actuators, basic switching logic and elements, the design of sequential control systems using electromechanical ladder diagrams, purely pneumatic circuits and programmable logic controllers are introduced. Upon successful completion, students should be able to read and understand pneumatic circuits and electromechanical ladder diagrams and be able to quickly design and implement such circuits for any sequencing problem. This is a technical elective course targeted at third year mechanical engineering students.

Practical Work

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Lab Experiments:

Exp 1	Pneumatic Sequential Circuits	10 %
Exp 2	Electro-pneumatics Sequential Circuits	10 %
Exp 3	PLC Controlled Sequential Circuits	10 %

Venue:

EA-04-05

Time:

18:00-21:00

Lab Schedule (by Group):

Group	29-Oct-2018 Week11 - Mon	31-Oct-2018 Week11 - Wed	05-Nov-2018 Week12 - Mon	07-Nov-2018 Week12 - Wed	12-Nov-2018 Week13 - Mon	14-Nov-2018 Week13 - Wed
Grp E01		Exp 1		Exp 2		Exp 3
Grp E02		Exp 2		Exp 3		Exp 1
Grp E03		Exp 3		Exp 1		Exp 2
Grp E04		Exp 1		Exp 2		Exp 3
Grp E05		Exp 2		Exp 3		Exp 1
Grp E06		Exp 3		Exp 1		Exp 2
Grp E07	Exp 1			Exp 2		Exp 3
Grp E08	Exp 2			Exp 3		Exp 1
Grp E09	Exp 3			Exp 1		Exp 2
Grp E10		Exp 1	Exp 2			Exp 3
Grp E11		Exp 2	Exp 3			Exp 1
Grp E12		Exp 3	Exp 1			Exp 2
Grp E13		Exp 1	Exp 2		Exp 3
Grp E14		Exp 2	Exp 3		Exp 1
Grp E15		Exp 3	Exp 1		Exp 2
Grp E16	Exp 1			Exp 2	Exp 3
Grp E17	Exp 2			Exp 3	Exp 1
Grp E18	Exp 3			Exp 1	Exp 2

Assessment

TopExamination: 70% - Closed book with one A4 sheet wrtten/printed on both side.

Lab Assignments: 10% + 10% + 10%

Workload

Top3-0.5-0.5-0-6

Workload Components : A-B-C-D-E
A: no. of lecture hours per week
B: no. of tutorial hours per week
C: no. of lab hours per week
D: no. of hours for projects, assignments, fieldwork etc per week
E: no. of hours for preparatory work by a student per week

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