DEVELOPMENT A TRAINING AND RESEARCH LABORATORY STAND FOR INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION

Relevance Practical training of highly qualified engineering personnel in the field of industrial automation is one of the key factors in the technological development of the material production sectors of our economy. The laboratory base in higher educational institutions should be equipped with modern stands with equipment that corresponds to the technological level of real equipment of industrial enterprises. The article discusses the issues of designing and constructing a mobile multifunctional training and research laboratory stand for industrial automation based on a programmable relay of domestic production PR200, provides functional and structural diagrams of the laboratory stand, provides a complete list of electrical components used to create the stand. The economic assessment of the manufacture of a laboratory stand gives grounds to conclude that it is economically feasible to produce such stands by the staff of departments of industrial automation. The article also shows the experience of introducing this laboratory stand into the educational process of bachelor's degree preparation in the direction of 15.03.04 «Automation of technological processes and productions». The laboratory stand based on the PR200 is a universal, multifunctional, mobile stand designed to implement multi-level tasks of industrial automation, which can also be used as a visual aid when conducting career guidance and exhibition events in extracurricular premises. The project to create a laboratory stand based on the PR200 can be scaled up in other higher educational institutions of our country without spending time on preparatory and research parts. Aim of research To develop a mobile multifunctional training and research laboratory stand for industrial automation based on Russian-made equipment that is actually used by industrial enterprises and to introduce this laboratory stand into the educational process of training specialists in the field of industrial automation. Research methods Computer-aided design and computer-aided modeling of electrical circuits were used to develop the laboratory stand. Results The developed laboratory stand was produced and introduced into the educational process at the Department of automated production technologies of the Yegoryevsk Institute of Technology (branch) of Moscow State University of Technology «STANKIN» during laboratory and practical classes in the disciplines: «Mechanics and Control», «Electrical Engineering and Electronics», «Automation and Control Tools». In addition, graduate students at the stand conduct full-scale modeling of automation systems as part of research and preparation of the final qualification work.