The certificate course Smart Manufacturing and Automation with Industry 4.0 offered by RU Academy addresses, on one hand, the current state of the art in smart automation and on the other hand provides an outlook on new technologies, businesses and opportunities arising out of digitalization, use of smart devices and in conclusion in Industry 4.0
The trend towards industrial automation and Industry 4.0 will change production significantly in the future. Therefore it is imperative to understand basic principles of automation and Industry 4.0 to meet the challenges facing production in the future. The concerted objective of the lecture is the basic knowledge for smart automation and Industry 4.0 within production.
The participants in the Smart Manufacturing and Automation with Industry 4.0 offered by RU Academy (RUA) will:
be able to analyze implemented automated manufacturing systems and describe their components;
be able to name automation tasks in manufacturing plants and name the components, which are necessary for the implementation of each automation task;
be able to design and select components for a given use case of the categories: Handling Technology, Industrial Robotics, Sensors, and Controls; can compare different concepts for multi-machine systems and select a suitable one for a given use case.