Competencies and objectives

 

Course context for academic year 2015-16

Esta asignatura aborda la aplicación de los sistemas de automatización modernos a los procesos industriales para lograr que estos se lleven a cabo eficazmente y con total autonomía, o, al menos, con alto grado de independencia, del factor humano. Los equipos usados como celebros de estos sistemas son típicamente los autómatas programables o PLCs (Programable Logic Controllers), así como  los denominados PCs industriales o empotrados.

Estos equipos interactúan con un proceso industrial a través de sensores y accionamientos de diferentes tipos. Además, en las plantas industriales donde se requiere supervisar y monitorizar diferentes procesos gobernados por autómatas, se utilizan otros equipos de más alto nivel con las aplicaciones de interfaz con los técnicos y operadores, y todos los sistemas se comunican con redes de datos industriales, conformando un sistema SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition). Con este tipo de sistemas, no solo se logra automatizar los procesos, sino también gestionar la cadena de producción, alcanzando una supervisión completa de una planta industrial, la cual facilita la gestión de calidad conforme a los estándares ISO.

En Automatización Avanzada se tratan todos estos aspectos de una forma global, con el fin de enseñar cómo afrontar el desarrollo de un proyecto completo de automatización industrial. Esta asignatura sirve además como punto de partida para aspectos que son abordados con más profundidad en posteriores asignaturas optativas del máster también, como pueden ser las redes industriales, los interfaces hombre-máquina o los sistemas de producción automáticos.

 

 

Course content (verified by ANECA in official undergraduate and Master’s degrees) for academic year 2015-16

UA Basic Transversal Competences

  • CGUA2 : Computer and information technology skills.
  • CGUA3 : Oral and written communication skills.

 

General Competences:>>Instrumental

  • CG1 : Advise on the choice, acquisition, and implementation of robotic and/or automated systems for different applications.
  • CG2 : Make decisions in the design and planning of a robotics and/or automation project, taking into account quality and environmental criteria.
  • CG4 : Apply new robotics and automation technologies to different business sectors, especially the industrial and service sectors, to improve their competitiveness.
  • CG6 : Analyse, synthesise problems and make decisions.

 

General Competences:>>Interpersonal

  • CG7 : Work, plan, organise and supervise work in multidisciplinary teams.
  • CG9 : Interpersonal relationship skills.

 

General Competences:>>Systematic

  • CG12 : Capacity to apply the knowledge acquired to real situations.
  • CG13 : Capacity to work and learn autonomously.
  • CG14 : Capacity to adapt to new situations, promoting creativity and an entrepreneurial spirit.

 

Specific Competences:>>Automation

  • CEAU1 : Capacity to choose the types of drives needed to automate the operational part of an industrial process.
  • CEAU2 : Apply the appropriate techniques and methods for programming and configuring the control elements of automated systems.
  • CEAU3 : Choose the most appropriate systems for managing building safety according to specific needs.
  • CEAU4 : Capacity to decide the manufacturing processes needed to produce an end product.
  • CEAU5 : Capacity to analyse and understand all technological factors related to the different manufacturing processes and computer systems in an industrial plant.
  • CEAU7 : Make decisions related to the design and programming of distributed systems using communication systems.
  • CEAU8 : Apply appropriate manufacturing techniques to solving specific problems, relating product design with manufacturing processes, costs and quality.
  • CEAU9 : Apply automation and new technologies in the public service and commercial sectors.

 

Specific Competences:>>Control Theory

  • CECO3 : Propose and design control and automation systems in different tertiary sector contexts using one's knowledge of the potential needs normally present in the same.

 

Specific Competences:>>Interfaces

  • CEIN1 : Design man-machine interfaces for different kinds of industrial and/or service according to specific needs.
  • CEIN3 : Design and implement applications and interfaces for process supervision and monitoring.

 

 

 

Learning outcomes (Training objectives)

No data

 

 

Specific objectives stated by the academic staff for academic year 2015-16

No data

 

 

General

Code: 37800
Lecturer responsible:
CANDELAS HERIAS, FRANCISCO ANDRES
Credits ECTS: 6,00
Theoretical credits: 1,20
Practical credits: 1,20
Distance-base hours: 3,60

Departments involved

  • Dept: PHYSICS, ENGINEERING SYSTEMS AND SIGNAL THEORY
    Area: SYSTEMS ENGINEERING AND AUTOMATICS
    Theoretical credits: 1,2
    Practical credits: 1,2
    This Dept. is responsible for the course.
    This Dept. is responsible for the final mark record.

Study programmes where this course is taught