You will explore industrial workcells, workcell safety, sensors, machine vision, pneumatics, handshaking, predictive maintenance, productivity, optimization, and coordinated movement.
Open each lesson in order and document your work as you move through the unit.
| Lesson | Type | Title | Focus | Open |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Industrial Workcells, Sorting & Pneumatics You will learn how automated workcells are designed, operated, programmed, and improved using safety procedures, logic, material transportation, and pneumatic motion. | ||||
| Activity 2.1.1 | Activity | Industrial Workcell | Explore how machines, robots, sensors, conveyors, and people work together in an automated manufacturing system. | Open Lesson |
| Activity 2.1.2 | Activity | Workcell Safety | Learn how safety zones, emergency stops, procedures, and safe operating habits protect people and equipment. | Open Lesson |
| Activity 2.1.3 | Activity | Sorting by Color | Use sensor input or programmed logic to identify and sort objects based on color or another visible property. | Open Lesson |
| Activity 2.1.4 | Activity | Conditionals and Loops | Use programming logic to make decisions, repeat actions, and control automated processes. | Open Lesson |
| Activity 2.1.5 | Activity | Material Transportation | Investigate how materials move through a workcell using conveyors, robots, carriers, or other handling systems. | Open Lesson |
| Activity 2.1.6 | Activity | Pneumatics | Learn how compressed air creates controlled motion through cylinders, valves, and actuators. | Open Lesson |
| Project 2.1.7 | Project | Sorting Challenge | Design, program, test, and document an automated sorting process that separates or organizes objects using defined criteria. | Open Lesson |
| Machine Vision, Sensors & System Communication You will explore how automated systems detect, classify, inspect, and communicate before completing the next step in a process. | ||||
| Activity 2.2.1 | Activity | Machine Vision | Explore how cameras and vision systems can identify, inspect, measure, or sort objects in manufacturing. | Open Lesson |
| Activity 2.2.2 | Activity | Bring Your Own Sensors | Investigate different sensor types and how each could be used to detect conditions in a manufacturing workcell. | Open Lesson |
| Activity 2.2.3 | Activity | Sensor Applications | Apply sensor input to solve a manufacturing problem involving position, presence, color, distance, orientation, or status. | Open Lesson |
| Project 2.2.4 | Project | Handshaking | Create or analyze a system where devices communicate before moving to the next step of an automated process. | Open Lesson |
| Predictive Maintenance, Productivity & Optimization You will examine how manufacturing systems are monitored, maintained, measured, and improved using data and evidence. | ||||
| Activity 2.3.1 | Activity | Predictive Maintenance | Explore how data, sensors, inspection, and maintenance records can identify problems before equipment fails. | Open Lesson |
| Activity 2.3.2 | Activity | Maximizing Productivity | Analyze how workflow, timing, automation, layout, and process decisions affect productivity in a manufacturing system. | Open Lesson |
| Project 2.3.3 | Project | Optimization Impact Study | Evaluate how one change to a process affects productivity, quality, reliability, cost, or efficiency. | Open Lesson |
| Coordinated Movement Challenge Problem You will combine workcell safety, sensors, communication, timing, material movement, pneumatics, and optimization in a final unit challenge. | ||||
| Problem 2.4.1 | Problem | Coordinated Movement | Design, program, test, and document an automated process that requires multiple parts of a manufacturing system to coordinate movement safely and reliably. | Open Lesson |
