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Sustainable Automation, 4 Credits
Hållbar automation, 4 Högskolepoäng
Established: 2025-06-04
Established by: Department of Engineering Science
Applies from: H25
Learning outcomes
After completing the course, the student should be able to:
Knowledge and understanding
- describe sustainability core concepts.
- show understanding of how sustainability awareness can be included in automation projects.
- describe how sustainability aspects impact and interact with current trends in industrial automation.
- explain how industrial automation can be aligned with the sustainable development goals adopted by the United Nations.
- describe existing problems in renewable and non-renewable resource management.
- describe the product life cycle and how to improve industrial automation sustainability using waste management systems.
Competence and skills
- propose a sustainable-aware, research-based automation solution.
- analyze sustainability concerns to be addressed in an automation project.
- propose improvements in sustainable resource and waste management in an industrial context.
Judgement and apporach
- show insight into how sustainability aspects impact and develop industrial automation.
Entry requirements
General entry requirements and approved result from the following course/courses: ATM700 Automation Systems and IAU600 Industrial Automation or the equivalent.
The forms of assessment of student performance
Individual written exam. Active participation in seminar.
Re-examination of seminar is conducted through individual written submissions.
Course contents
The course gives an introduction to sustainability in industrial automation and includes:
- sustainability aspects related to industrial automation.
- automation-related sustainability problems such as resource management, waste management, life cycle analysis.
- How sustainability relatets to technologies such as smart factories, IoT, digital twins, virtual factories, and model-based technology.
- sustainability indicators.
- policies and state-of-the-art research within sustainable automation.
Other regulations
Course grading: F/Fx/E/D/C/B/A - Insufficient, Insufficient- more work required before the credit can be awarded, Sufficient, Satisfactory, Good, Very Good, Excellent
Course language: The teaching is conducted in English.
General rules pertaining to examination at University West are available at www.hv.se.
If the student has a decision/recommendation on special support due to disability, the examiner has the right to examine the student in a customized examination form.
Cycle
Second cycle
Progressive specialization
A1F - Second cycle, has second-cycle course/s as entry requirements
Main field of study
Automation, Production Technology