Automation

Automation is the use of control systems to control industrial machinery and processes and PLCs play a main role in this field.

This is why our Automation laboratory starts from the study of PLCs, to allow students the analysis and the acquisition of the techniques related to programming a PLC and to its use in control technology.

The catalogue continues with the presentation of all the applications that we have designed to facilitate, in a user-friendly and stimulating way, the work of teachers and students, through simulation panels or models, virtual environments or pilot plants, teaching systems with real equipment, all adapted to the didactic purpose of representing an efficient and effective learning tool.

The catalogue then introduces the subject of Process Control through trainers reproducing real industrial situations and is completed by our Pneumatics, Electro-pneumatics, Hydraulics and Electro-hydraulics work benches.

To solve an automation problem, the student must have a remarkable range of knowledge, which goes from electrical engineering to electronics, from information technology to mechanics and communications. The aim of this laboratory is to provide tools that combine the above domains, in order to provide students with the most up-to-date automation technologies, stimulating and fascinating them with an original methodology of study.

For this reason, the student is taught, through handbooks provided with the equipment, the basic knowledge to be able to autonomously find the best solution of the problems.

Currently, for manufacturing companies, the purpose of automation has shifted from increasing productivity and reducing costs, to broader issues, such as increasing quality and flexibility in the manufacturing process.

We believe that our didactic equipment represent a substantial contribution to the fulfillment of the aforesaid objectives.