Course

Industrial Automation Safety Ops

Retrofit CNC lines, embed Arduino/ESP32 fabrics, and deploy vision-based danger detection.

Level

Intermediate

Duration

50 hrs

License

CC-BY

Provider

PowerProgress Factory Lab

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Manifest compliance

Mirror-ready resources

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Kardashev track

Compute contributions unlocked

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Readiness status

92%

46,000 hrs/mo pledged

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Kardashev intelligence

Civic missions bottleneck

3 weekly posts - 50 live missions. Close the 48pt gap by running the recommended playbook.

critical

Readiness

52%

Gap to 100%

-48 pts

  • Target

    120 weekly updates / 30 missions

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Mapped missions

mission-industrial-retrofit

Tag your build logs with these mission IDs for auto credit.

Telemetry tags

industrialsafety

Use these hashtags in /community so mentors trace your runbooks.

Module

CNC Modernization

Bridge legacy PLCs with digital twins and safety relays.

1 lessons · 2 takeaways

Mission outcomes

  • Integrate Modbus/OPC UA telemetry into Supabase.
  • Design e-stop trees that meet IEC 61508.

Module

Embedded Control Fabric

Productize Arduino + ESP32 nodes for rugged sensing + actuation.

1 lessons · 2 takeaways

Mission outcomes

  • Ship secure boot + watchdog firmware.
  • Switch transports dynamically across industrial protocols.

Module

Vision Danger Detection

Deploy edge AI that halts machines when humans enter unsafe zones.

1 lessons · 2 takeaways

Mission outcomes

  • Collect multi-sensor hazard datasets without downtime.
  • Tie inference thresholds directly to safety PLC relays.