Industry 4.0 detailed syllabus for Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering (EIE) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the EIE students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
For Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering 5th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit EIE 5th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-I scheme and its subjects refer to EIE Professional Elective-I syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of industry 4.0 is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
INTRODUCTION
Introduction to Industry 4.0 The Various Industrial Revolutions – Digitalization and the Networked Economy – Drivers, Enablers, Compelling Forces and Challenges for Industry 4.0 -Comparison of Industry 4.0 Factory and Today’s Factory – Trends of Industrial Big Data and Predictive Analytics for Smart Business Transformation
Unit II
INTEGRATED IoT
Road to Industry 4.0 – Internet of Things (IoT) & Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) & Internet of Services – Smart Manufacturing – Smart Devices and Products – Smart Logistics – Smart Cities – Predictive Analytics
Unit III
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Unit IV
CLOUD COMPUTING
Role of data, information, knowledge and collaboration in future organizations – Resource based view of a firm – Data as a new resource for organizations – Harnessing and sharing knowledge in organizations – Cloud Computing Basics -Cloud Computing and Industry 4.0
Unit V
CASE STUDY AND APPLICATIONS
Industry 4.0 IIoT case studies – Opportunities and Challenges – Future of Works and Skills for Workers in the Industry 4.0 Era – Strategies for competing in an Industry 4.0 world -Society 5.0
Skill Development Activities
(Group Seminar/Mini
Project/Assignment/Content Preparation / Quiz/ Surprise Test / Solving GATE 10 questions/ etc)
- A Seminar on case studies, cloud computing, security and IoT.
- Quiz on different types of industrial 4.0 applications.
- Familiarization with relevant software tool (MATLAB, AR/VR, PLM)
- Creating a cloud computing platform and work on it.
- Introduction to other industry and security not covered in the above syllabus
Course Outcomes:
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Text Books:
- Alasdair Gilchrist, �Industry 4.0: The Industrial Internet of Things�, Apress, 2016.
- Lan Gibson, David W. Rosen and Brent Stucker, �Additive Manufacturing Technologies Rapid Prototyping to Direct Digital Manufacturing�, Springer, 2010.
Reference Books:
- ArsheepBahga, Internet of Things: A Hands on Approach,Orient Blackswan Private Limited -New Delhi,2015
- Andreas Gebhardt, �Understanding Additive Manufacturing: Rapid Prototyping, Rapid Tooling, Rapid Manufacturing�, Hanser Publisher, 2011
- J. Chanchaichujit, A.Tan, Meng, F., Eaimkhong, S. �Healthcare 4.0 Next Generation Processes with the Latest Technologies�, Palgrave Pivot, 2019.
List of Open Source Software/ Learning Website:
- https://nptel.ac.in/courses/106105167
- https://nptel.ac.in/courses/106105195
- https://nptel.ac.in/courses/108108123
- https://www.epicor.com/en-in/blog/learn/what-is-industry-4-0/
- https://www.iare.ac.in/sites/default/files/IoT_LECTURE_NOTES_MODIFIED_0.pdf
- https://nptel.ac.in/courses/106106147.
For detailed syllabus of all the other subjects of Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering 5th Sem, visit EIE 5th Sem subject syllabuses for 2021 regulation.
For all Electronics & Instrumentation Engineering results, visit Anna University EIE all semester results direct link.