Resumen de Automation course for industrial engineers: an approach based on petri nets, software tools and laboratory experiments
Fábio Lima, Álvaro Camargo Prado, Alexandre Augusto Massote, Fabrizio Leonardi
This paper proposes a methodology for teaching industrial automation to Brazilian industrial engineering undergraduate students,based on analysing a computational solution associated with an integrated manufacturing laboratory. As a first approach ananalytical analysis of the automated process is carried out. Then the manufacturing laboratory is combined with software tools, toprovide the industrial engineering student with a powerful analysis for using these kinds of systems to improve product quality andproduction performance. For the computational analysis, we have inserted Petri Nets to evaluate the production systemperformance with a good acceptance from the students. This is the highlight of this work since using Petri Nets for IndustrialEngineering undergraduate students is not a common approach. Finally, an assessment proved that such a strategy has beenproducing excellent learning results.
