Center for Packaging Machinery Industry

Course Description

Networking industrial devices including servers, computers, smart sensors, controllers, and input/output devices.  Programming applications for transferring data between industrial applications.

Course Objectives

After successfully completing this course, a student should be able to demonstrate knowledge in the following areas:

1. Networking smart sensors transducers, controllers and final control elements.
2. Monitoring, controlling and programming mechatronics system using virtual instrumentation and graphical software tools
3. Various industrial interface busses and protocols
4. Recognition of hardware specification and knowledge of integration 
5. Configurable wireless sensors network
6. Communication between platforms