• The Automatics Smart Factory should allow students to get experience of a number of processes and technologies that are commonly used in manufacturing and modern-day Industry 4.0 principles. This should include conveyor systems, sensing systems, pneumatic pick and place technology, DC motor drives, and stepper motor drives. The factory should include a number of colored discs made from plastic and other materials. A conveyor belt moves these pieces into the factory, where user programmed sensors sort the discs into multiple rejection bins. Some are picked the conveyor by a suction device and a stepper motor-controlled gantry sorts the discs into appropriately colored containers.
• The smart factory should be completely self-contained. The smart factory can be used with PLC and should also be compatible with Add-on.

Robot Arm Integration:

• The Smart Factory should be compatible with the All Code robot arm production cell. This robot arm can be added to provide the Industry 4.0 learning solution that acts in the same way as an industrial robot.
• The robot arm production cell consists of a rugged stepper motor controlled 3 degrees of freedom arm bolted to a base plate and supplied with activity mat that provides a range of exercises to replicate an industrial robot arm. The free instructional guide includes worksheets in pendant, G code, API and microcontroller programming, sensors and actuators,kinematics and more.

PLC with HMI Unit 

• 24V DC Power Suppl
• Industrial PL
• 10 Digital Inputs with 4mm Connector
• 10 Transistor Outputs with 4mm Connector
• IEC 61131-3 Languages LD, SCL, FBD, ST
• Minimum 4.3 in Color Touchscree
• Wi-Fi Route
• Ethernet Connector for Programmin
• Connect to other systems via Ethernet or Wi-F

Smart Factory Add-on:

• DIN Rail Mounted Syste
• 24V DC Power Suppl
• Industrial PL
• Modules can be supplied for other PLC
• 8 Digital Inputs with 4mm Connector
• 10 Transistor Outputs with 4mm Connector
• Access to screw terminals: 6 DI and 2 A
• Access to PLC Ethernet Connector for Programming

Compressor:

• This desk mounted compressor should be an oil-less piston compressor, with a small electric 1/8HP motor that should be designed to operate on the Automatics platform.
• It should be powerful, compact, reliable and quiet.
• It should include a dial showing the pressure in the output pipe (0 to 100psi), an on/off switch and air outlet switch and an air pressure adjustment knob. The unit should be powered from 240V.

Smart Software:

• The Smart Factory should be controlled in one of two ways.
• Either opt to control using supplied PLC with HMI Unit, which will be educational PLC's and perfect for the students to understand the capabilities and possibilities of industrial smart factories.
• Alternatively, add-on for the smart Factory, gives students the ability to program the system using an industrial grade PLC.
• This should be provided on a DIN rail bracket with adaptor modules.

Learning objectives include:

• Factory control and automation system
• Software design for automatio
• DC motor and stepper drive
• Conveyor and gantry system
• Vacuum pick and place system
• Component sensing and sortin
• System design with more than one controller

Components included with this trainer:

• Gantry syste
• Plunger (suction) devic
• Conveyor system fitted with sensor
• Sensors on Conveyor
• 2 x light gate
• Inductive senso
• Capacitive senso
• Electro-pneumatic component
• Sorting bins (from conveyor
• Robot arm location poin
• Sorting bins (from robot arm

Items supplied with this trainer:

• Smart Factor
• PLC with HMI Uni
• Smart Factory Add-o
• Robot Arm Work cel
• STEP 7 Softwar
• Compresso