School: Engineering

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Industrial Control
  • Unit Code

    ENS5240
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    7
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Octavian BASS

Description

In this unit students will gain practical knowledge of industrial automation systems and their functions. Techniques for the analysis, design and implementation of industrial control systems are introduced. A balanced approach between theory and practice is used giving the students a comprehensive exposure to the highly industry relevant field of industrial automation. An advanced project concentrates on a specific industrial control application that evolves along a path of increasing complexity to integrate the basic principles previously acquired by designing small-scale systems that can be found in the real world.

Prerequisite Rule

Honours level students must pass ENS5253. Bachelor level students must pass ENS5170.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Explain the purpose and structure of industrial control systems.
  2. Apply industrial control engineering techniques to the control of various engineering systems found in modern manufacturing, processing and transportation environments.
  3. Design the major building blocks of industrial control systems, using knowledge of the various sub elements used in industrial control.
  4. Evaluate faults in a PLC-controlled system and apply appropriate safety control mechanisms to minimise their potential impact.
  5. Interpret and utilise terms used in relevant standards and publications.

Unit Content

  1. Control and instrumentation for automation; industrial automation and process control.
  2. Programmable logic controllers (PLCs); PLC programming and IEEE standards; hardware and software of PLCs.
  3. Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) Systems.
  4. Human Machine Interfaces.
  5. Field devices; input and output devices and processing.
  6. Communication protocols and systems in industrial automation.
  7. Design of industrial automation systems.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 213 x 1 hour labNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 213 x 2 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Laboratory Work ^Laboratory sessions and report35%
ProjectDesign Project35%
Examination ^End of semester examination30%

^ Mandatory to Pass


Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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School: Engineering

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Industrial Control
  • Unit Code

    ENS5240
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    7
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Octavian BASS

Description

In this unit students will gain practical knowledge of industrial automation systems and their functions. Techniques for the analysis, design and implementation of industrial control systems are introduced. A balanced approach between theory and practice is used giving the students a comprehensive exposure to the highly industry relevant field of industrial automation. An advanced project concentrates on a specific industrial control application that evolves along a path of increasing complexity to integrate the basic principles previously acquired by designing small-scale systems that can be found in the real world.

Prerequisite Rule

Honours level students must pass ENS5253. Bachelor level students must pass ENS5170.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Explain the purpose and structure of industrial control systems.
  2. Apply industrial control engineering techniques to the control of various engineering systems found in modern manufacturing, processing and transportation environments.
  3. Design the major building blocks of industrial control systems, using knowledge of the various sub elements used in industrial control.
  4. Evaluate faults in a PLC-controlled system and apply appropriate safety control mechanisms to minimise their potential impact.
  5. Interpret and utilise terms used in relevant standards and publications.

Unit Content

  1. Control and instrumentation for automation; industrial automation and process control.
  2. Programmable logic controllers (PLCs); PLC programming and IEEE standards; hardware and software of PLCs.
  3. Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) Systems.
  4. Human Machine Interfaces.
  5. Field devices; input and output devices and processing.
  6. Communication protocols and systems in industrial automation.
  7. Design of industrial automation systems.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 213 x 1 hour labNot OfferedNot Offered
Semester 213 x 2 hour lectureNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Laboratory Work ^Laboratory sessions and report50%
Project ^Design Project50%

^ Mandatory to Pass


Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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