Rockwell Automation Advanced Mechatronics Lab
The Rockwell Automation Advanced Mechatronics Lab is a classroom lab that includes logic controllers, analog and digital IO modules, control systems, Human-Machine Interfaces (HMI), motor controllers, and analog/digital trainers.
There are multiple classes that take place in this lab, including electricity/electronics courses, programmable logic controller courses, and mechatronics capstone courses. Equipment includes power supplies, analog and digital IO modules, Tektronix digital oscilloscopes, function generators, Allen-Bradley programmable logic controllers with Logix 5581E processors, Allen-Bradley MicroLogix control systems, Allen-Bradley PanelView Plus 700 HMIs, Allen-Bradley Power Flex 527 VFD motor controllers, IO boxes (light boxes that represent machinery input/output) and Omni 2000 analog/digital trainers.
Computers are equipped with Studio 5000 software to run the programmable logic controllers.