Course: Mechanization and Automatization of Postal Services

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Course title Mechanization and Automatization of Postal Services
Course code KDMML/PMVPK
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study 1
Semester Winter
Number of ECTS credits 4
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Švadlenka Libor, doc. Ing. Ph.D.
Course content
Mechanization and Automation of Technological Processes. Development of Mechanization and Automation in the Postal Services. Small and Medium Mechanization of the Postal Services I. Small and Medium Mechanization of the Postal Services II. Machine Processing of Letter Post I. Machine Processing of Letter Post II. Mechanized Processing of Packages I. Mechanized Processing of Packages II. Systems Providing Internal Transportation Packages in Sorting Centers. Automatic Identification Technology in the Postal Sector. The Informatization of Processes in the Field of Postal Services and the Provision of Electronic Services.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming), Monitoring
  • unspecified - 25 hours per semester
  • unspecified - 30 hours per semester
  • unspecified - 16 hours per semester
  • Individual project - 20 hours per semester
  • unspecified - 10 hours per semester
  • unspecified - 20 hours per semester
Learning outcomes
Inform the students with principles of mechanization and automatization of postal services.
After graduation this subject the student has complex summary about mechanical and automation instruments needing for security efficient process of providing postal services. The student is able to orientate in offer available instruments of little and middle mechanization with their function and construction, understand technology of process mechanical treatment of correspondence and mechanized treatment of packets, informatization processes and electronic services for postal traffic, electronic services providing postal operators. The student understands mathematics-physical fundamental of mechanical-automation processes necessary for treatment of postal packets.
Prerequisites
It supposed elementary knowledge secondary mathematic operation, rules and functions, elementary quantity of statistic, kinematic and dynamic.

Assessment methods and criteria
Oral examination, Written examination, Home assignment evaluation

The student must in course of semester and by final exam demonstrate sufficient knowledge of mechanical and automation instruments and principles needing for efficient postal traffic and understand processes of technological processing postal packets, the student must be able solution this problematic in praxis. The tutor will notify the concrete requirements to the students within the first week of the term.
Recommended literature
  • BENADIKOVÁ, A., MADA, Š., WEINLICH, S. Čárové kódy - automatická identifikace. Praha: Grada, 1994.
  • KAJÁNEK, B.; HAZLINGER, E. Mechanizácia a automatizácia pošty a PNS. Časť 1.. Bratislava: Alfa, 1987.
  • PARÝZEK, J., ŠVENKA, J. Vybrané kapitoly z mechanizácie a automatizácie pošty a PNS. Bratislava: Alfa, 1981.
  • Švadlenka, Libor. Technika a technologie zpracování poštovních zásilek. Pardubice: Univerzita Pardubice, 2013. ISBN 978-80-7395-727-8.


Study plans that include the course
Faculty Study plan (Version) Category of Branch/Specialization Recommended year of study Recommended semester
Faculty: Faculty of Transport Engineering Study plan (Version): Management, Marketing and Logistics in Communications (2016) Category: Transportation and communications 1 Recommended year of study:1, Recommended semester: Winter