UniTrain Course: Electropneumatics

The course imparts the basic knowledge of electropneumatics. In all practice-related project tasks, core and specialist qualifications are imparted in an integrated manner, including independent planning, implementation and monitoring.
Basic vocational training in a wide range of occupational fields is intended to impart practical skills and qualifications. In order to carry out a qualified professional activity, the pupils should in particular learn how to plan, carry out and control independently as well as how to act in the overall context of the company.

Learning content

Occupation-specific specialist qualifications, e.g. the manufacture, assembly and disassembly of assemblies and systems, should be taught integrated with core qualifications, e.g. the planning and organisation of work and the evaluation of work results. Business processes and quality assurance systems in the area of application are, among other things, learning contents of the occupation-specific technical qualification.

In detail:

• Basics of Pneumatics/Electropneumatics
• Reading of pneumatic and electrical circuit diagrams
• Function of single- and double-acting cylinders
• Holding member controls
• Functionality of the various directional control valves
• Basic circuits with AND/OR connections
• Basic circuits with self-retaining
• Travel-dependent controls
• Recording of distance/time diagrams
• Time-dependent controls, pick-up and drop-out delays
• Sequence controls and clock chains
• Connection-programmed controls
• Programmed logic controllers
• Creating pneumatic circuit diagrams with the software
• Create electrical circuit diagrams with the editor and control hardware directly
• open virtual instruments from the course software

Experimental Board with: 

Technical data:

• 24V/2A DC power supply
• 1 x Snap-action switch normally open/ normally closed
• 3 x push-button make/break contact
• 3 x relay 24V DC with 3 change-over contacts
• 1 x time relay on-delayed, adjustable from 0.1 - 15s
• 1 x time relay, off-delayed, adjustable from 0.1 - 15s
• Pressure sensor 1V/bar, 0-10V
• Pressure switch, adjustable switching threshold from 0.5 to 8 bar
• 6 x end position initiators 24V DC, reed contacts
• 3 x double acting cylinders, 80mm stroke with throttle valves and end position initiators 24V DC (reed contacts)
• 1 x single-acting cylinder, 50mm stroke with throttle valve
• 1 x vacuum gripper
• Compact valve island with 3 x 5/2-way valve monostable 24V DC with return spring and 3 x 5/2-way valve bistable 24V DC with electrically operated impulse valves on both sides
• Pressure regulator 0 - 10 bar
• Recorder for distance/time diagrams