Prepares individuals to set up, adjust, configure, program, interface, monitor, and operate smart factory systems that use Industry 4.0 technology to efficiently produce high-quality products in these applications as an integrated system: pick and place, gauging, indexing, sorting and queuing, and robotic assembly. Components used shall include: DC-motor belt conveyors, ball screw linear drives, electro-pneumatic actuators/valves, vacuum parts pickup, vacuum switches, electronic sensors, clutch, stepper motors, and servo robots. Other key skills include: adhering to smart factory safety rules, configuring and interfacing PLC and robot controllers via Ethernet/IP and discrete I/O handshaking, using Ethernet message instruction to perform controller-to-controller handshaking, and programming/operating a multi-station production process.