Robotics Fundamentals and Robot Integration
This course will provide the learner with the learning necessary to operate a robot cell compliant with robot safety regulations and perform operating tasks on the robot.
Overview
This course is only available to those currently in employment and partially funded under the Skills to Advance initiative.
Skills to Advance is a national initiative that provides upskilling and reskilling opportunities to employees in jobs undergoing change and to those currently employed in vulnerable sectors. Skills to Advance aims to equip employees with the skills they need to progress in their current role or to adapt to the changing job market. Skills to Advance helps employers identify skills needs and invest in their workforce by providing subsidised education and training to staff.
If you would like more information on this initiative, please email our Enterprise Engagement Team at skills@kwetb.ie and they would be delighted to help.
Expression of Interest
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Course Content
This course will provide the learner with the key knowledge and skills to identify and evaluate deployment opportunities for robots within their own manufacturing organisation. Generate Return on Investment Calculations and identify potential project implementation risks.
The Robotics Fundamentals with Robot Integration programme is aimed at participants who wish to learn:
•How robots work
•Potential uses of robots
•How to operate a robot
•How to specify the type of robot to best suit their own contexts and applications
This course will provide the learner with the learning necessary to integrate a robot into a production cell compliant with robot safety regulations and perform operating tasks on the robot.
Practical – slightly more advanced operation tasks with the robot
•Installing – mounting robot considerations – loading etc. floor, ceiling
•Cabinet positioning within cell– cable considerations
•Use of External Axis
•Other Start Up Tasks – i.e. robot being taken out of the box tasks.
•Basic cell operation recap
•Apply work safe practices, including lockout and tagout
•Gain exposure to other AMTCE cells – basic cell operation across these i.e. CNC, Welding, Collaborative robots etc.
Elaborating on Modules 1 provide more detail on the key hardware components of the robot arm and controller – RDC, ServoPacks, Kinematic Chain (motors, gearboxes, belt), PC.
Introduce/ identify the different elements that make up the robotic cell
•Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC)
•Safety Devices - Cell interlocks, light curtains (considerations robot speed), floor scanners, E-Stops, Acknowledgement buttons etc.
•Non-Safety related periphery devices; part present sensors, conveyors, cameras etc.
Safety considerations, regulations and compliance.
Recognise situations within the manufacturing industry when laws, codes, and regulations apply.
Introduce Safe Operation, Safe move, Fanuc etc. be robot agnostic
Necessary safety hardware and Configuration of Safety Input and Outputs (IO)
Network Safety vs Discrete Safety IO
Dual Channel safety, built in redundancy
Safety Relays, Safety PLC
Design a basic safety circuit to integrate within a robot cell.
Performing risk assessment
EOAT design and consideration – pneumatics, electronics, robot energy supply, and loading
Principles of Tool and Base management – be agnostic
Principles of mastering
Building on Module 2 - Look at Load in more detail
•Perform load analysis on tooling using Robot Load Calculation Software
•Determine if proposed end effector will be suitable.
•Load analysis – dynamic vs static overloading.
•Process forces
Programme Objectives
1.To facilitate the learner to explore robotics and their uses in advanced manufacturing environments.
2.To provide learners with the learning necessary to operate a robot cell and perform operating tasks on the robot while being compliant with robot safety regulations.
3.To enable the learner to commission and operate a robot cell compliant with current and future robot safety regulations.
4.To facilitate the learner to develop specialised vocational and academic literacies to facilitate career progression.
5.To create a Minor Award in a specialised and innovative area that may have sectoral applicability.
Who Is This Programme Intended For?
The programme is intended for the following cohorts:
•Individuals who wish to change career and re-skill for career opportunities within Advanced Manufacturing
•Individuals already employed within Advanced Manufacturing at general operative level and who wish to upskill to more advanced automated cell operation
•Technicians, engineers and line managers, employed in advanced manufacturing sectors, who have a requirement to understand how robotics could be successfully utilised in their advanced manufacturing environments
•Technicians, engineers and line managers, employed in advanced manufacturing sectors, who may have robotics already deployed in their manufacturing environment that are not being used to their maximum efficiency.
•Technicians, engineers and line managers, employed in Advanced Manufacturing sectors who wish to increase their knowledge and skills in the robotics area in order to make more informed business decisions, to improve their business’ agility, to allow the business to keep up to date with the emerging knowledge in the robotics field and to allow businesses to grow own internal talent in robotics.
•Technicians, engineers and line managers, employed in advanced manufacturing sectors, who needs to develop knowledge skills and competencies in areas such as vision and sensor systems in manufacturing operations, the industrial internet of things (IIoT), cyber physical systems and automated robotics systems.
Suitability
Due to Skills to Advance (STA) funding, this course is only available to those in employment.
