Industry 4.0: Developing Center of Excellence for PLC Lab in the field of Automation

Nowadays, industry 4.0 presents a modern and innovative paradigm with integrated up-to-date technology. The Asean Factori 4.0 projects under the funding of the Erasmus+ programme targeted to provide the training of the joined staff, students, and lecturers from the involved universities. This project contributes to the trainees for the state-of-the-art knowledge related to industry 4.0, automation, technologies, applications, and skills in utilizing the programable logic control (PLC) and its use cases for automation projects. This paper presents the key enabler technologies for industry 4.0 applications and developing Center of Excellence (CE) for PLC Lab in the fields of automation. Furthermore, we describe the learning courses and training contents under the training periods. The significant tools, frameworks, software, theoretical and practical methods are delivered to the involvements. Finally, a practical elevator project utilized the CE PLC Lab conducted by students have presented.