Core Advanced Manufacturing
Software, IT & Digital Manufacturing
Digital manufacturing links industrial automation with software, data, traceability and controlled connectivity rather than treating IT as separate from factory execution.
Capability map
What this industry requires Industrial Skillset to cover.
Technical body of knowledge
Capabilities connected to published technical topics.
Automation & Maintenance · Intermediate
Manufacturing Execution Systems and Production Data
Understand how manufacturing execution systems connect work orders, operators, machines, traceability, quality and production data.
Open topicAutomation & Maintenance · Intermediate
Industrial Cybersecurity Fundamentals
Understand basic cyber-risk concepts for PLCs, HMIs, industrial networks, production systems and connected manufacturing equipment.
Open topicAutomation & Maintenance · Foundational
PLC Fundamentals for Industrial Automation
Understand the basic architecture of programmable logic controllers and how inputs, logic, outputs, interlocks and operator interfaces combine to automate industrial equipment.
Open topicAutomation & Maintenance · Foundational
Industrial Sensors and Actuators
Explore common sensing and actuation devices used in industrial machinery, including proximity, photoelectric, pressure, position and motion devices.
Open topicAutomation & Maintenance · Intermediate
Variable Frequency Drives and Motor Controls
Understand how motor starters, contactors and variable frequency drives control industrial motors and how common parameters, faults and protections are interpreted.
Open topicAutomation & Maintenance · Intermediate
Industrial Robotics and Cobots
Understand robot-cell architecture, coordinate systems, end effectors, basic motion concepts, safeguarding and the operational differences between conventional robots and collaborative applications.
Open topicProduction Systems · Foundational
Material Identification and Traceability
Understand how material identity, lot or heat information, part numbers and status controls preserve traceability through manufacturing.
Open topicRepresentative roles and role maps
Typical industry roles
Automation Technician
An automation pathway linking PLC logic, field devices, fluid power and robotics with safe troubleshooting and controlled change.
Role curriculumQuality Inspector
A verification pathway connecting engineering drawings and GD&T to metrology, CMM inspection, FAI, nonconformance and statistical process control.
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