Course detail

Mechanisation and Automation

FSI-EMM Acad. year: 2025/2026 Summer semester

The introduction to the subject will be the historical development of automation, further continues with modern computer control integrated production (CIM) and their subgroups (CAD, CAPE, CAPP, CAE, CAM, CAQ). It will be explained the need for automation in terms of aspects forced, economically justified and different. After, robots and manipulators and Automated technological workplaces, Automated workplaces for machining, forming and welding will be discussed. In the next part, the subject is focused on Integrated Production Grouping (IPG), Automated Production Systems (APS), Flexible Production Systems (FPS) and Flexible Production Cells. In the following, the design features of NC machine tools will be addressed. Expert systems are characterized in the subject. The basic means of automation and artificial intelligence in flexible automation will also be discussed. Boolean algebra and sensor characteristics are also part of the subject. The subject also deals with automated exchange of tools and workpieces.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

6

Supervisor

Ing. Marek Štroner, Ph.D.

Department

Institute of Manufacturing Technology

Entry knowledge

Basic knowledge of producing mechanization, handling and basic information about machines and equipment in manufacturing technology (mainly in forming, machining and welding technologies).

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Attendance at lessons is checked. The lecture is different each week, that is why an absence may be compensated for in the same week only. Only one lecture may be missed without penalty. In the case of more missed exercises and the impossibility of replacing the exercise, the substitute protocols and computational work will be assigned.


Participation in lessons is controlled by solving the partial projects submitted in the form of protocols. The subject-unit credit is done by examining the participation in the course and the projects evaluation. The exam consists of the written test and the oral part.

Aims

The subject provides students with all necessary knowledge about handling systems and automation in the area of metal forming production, machining, casting, welding and other technological production with the higher level of automation.


Students will acquire necessary knowledge of mechanization and automation and handling systems in engineering automation workshops and production control. They will be received the basics and principles of numerical control, industrial robots and NC and CNC machines as well. The obtained knowledge will be applied in the field of the processing all types technological production designs.

Study aids

http://ust.fme.vutbr.cz/tvareni/studium/index.php?stranka=opory

and

E-learning

The study programmes with the given course

Programme B-STR-P: Engineering, Bachelor's
specialization STG: Manufacturing Technology, compulsory

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

39 hours, optionally

Syllabus


  1. Introduction and history of mechanization and automation, CIM, CAD, CAPE, CAPP, CAE, CAM, CAQ – modern production control

  2. Automated workplaces for machining, forming and welding

  3. Robotized workplaces and flexible production cells, flexible production systems

  4. Robots and manipulators – their structure and function

  5. Machine tools – requirements, systematic classification, division and design features of NC production machines

  6. Production systems for machining, CNC turning and milling machines, multifunctional machining centers, control of automated production

  7. Expert systems – types, construction, properties and uses

  8. Production process, basic means of automation, artificial intelligence in flexible automation

  9. Boolean algebra, types of sensors

  10. Automatic workpiece change

  11. Automatic tool change

  12. Analysis of the conditions of use of industrial robots and manipulators, warheads, effectors, interactions with surroundings

  13. Automated production systems and complex handling

Exercise

26 hours, compulsory

Syllabus


  1. Protocol entry Material handling in the warehouse with the robot

  2. Determination and dimensioning of the warehouse according to demand

  3. Warehouse workplace design

  4. Choice of portal robot in warehouse

  5. Protocol submission

  6. Introduction to software Kauza-X for evaluation of automation and mechanization

  7. Working with the expert system Kauza-X (conveyors, chutes)

  8. Theoretical calculation of line operation costs and its comparison with the inference system of expert system

  9. Working with the expert system Kauza-X (carts, conveyors and manipulators)

  10. Design of a flexible production line

  11. Choice and characteristics of the robot

  12. Protocol submission

  13. Evaluation of protocols and participation, granting of credit