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Industrial Automation from Scratch

By : Olushola Akande
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Industrial Automation from Scratch

By: Olushola Akande

Overview of this book

Industrial automation has become a popular solution for various industries looking to reduce manual labor inputs and costs by automating processes. This book helps you discover the abilities necessary for excelling in this field. The book starts with the basics of industrial automation before progressing to the application of switches, sensors, actuators, and motors, and a direct on-line (DOL) starter and its components, such as circuit breakers, contactors, and overload relay. Next, you'll explore VFDs, their parameter settings, and how they can be wired and programmed for induction motor control. As you advance, you'll learn the wiring and programming of major industrial automation tools – PLCs, HMIs, and SCADA. You’ll also get to grips with process control and measurements (temperature, pressure, level, and flow), along with analog signal processing with hands-on experience in connecting a 4–20 mA transmitter to a PLC. The concluding chapters will help you grasp various industrial network protocols such as FOUNDATION Fieldbus, Modbus, PROFIBUS, PROFINET, and HART, as well as emerging trends in manufacturing (Industry 4.0) and its empowering technologies (such as IoT, AI, and robotics). By the end of this book, you’ll have gained a practical understanding of industrial automation concepts for machine automation and control.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
1
Part 1: Learning the Concepts and Skills Required to Get Started
8
Part 2: Understanding PLC, HMI, and SCADA
14
Part 3: Process Control, Industrial Network, and Smart Factory

Using the move instruction

The move instruction moves a value from a source to a destination. There are various move operations in TIA Portal. In this book, we will learn how to use MOVE (the move value), which is the common move instruction.

Perform the following steps to write a simple program to move the value 20 to a register, MW0, when a push button connected to I0.0 is pressed:

  1. On a new network, add a normally open instruction and specify an address, I0.0.
  2. On the right-hand side of the programming environment, click Instructions | Move operation, and drag the MOVE (move value) instruction to the rung/network.
  3. Double-click ??? for IN and specify a value, for example, 20.
  4. Double-click ??? for OUT1 and specify the destination address, for example, MW0, as shown in the following screenshot:
Figure 9.46 – Using the move instruction

Figure 9.46 – Using the move instruction

When the push button connected to I0.0 is pressed, the normally open contact I0.0 in the...