Reconstruction of electro-pneumatic mechanism as part of a laboratory environment for teaching needs

Abstract

The paper discusses the proposal of a mechanism forming part of the training environment for the practical preparation of faculty students for the needs of industry. The training environment serves as an educational and practical workplace enabling the improvement of students in PLC programming as well as in describing the functions and design solutions of the represented components from the field of pneumatics, sensors, electrical safety devices and their combinations. The design of the described mechanism was implemented as an upgrade of the existing solution, which showed some imperfections during operation. The article presents the original solution and the proposal for a new one, while at the end a comparison of the pros and cons of both solutions is made. Both described solutions were created as outputs from the diploma solution, respectively. Bachelor thesis of our students. The article has an educational and descriptive character.