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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

SCADA software

This is software that can be used to create the interface (GUI) required to monitor and control the industrial equipment and perform all necessary configurations. It is usually installed on a central host computer, where monitoring and control operations will be carried out.

Common SCADA software includes the following:

  • WinCC by Siemens
  • FactoryTalk View by Rockwell Automation
  • InTouch by Wonderware
  • iFix by General Electric
  • Citect SCADA by Schneider
  • mySCADA

We are going to use one of the preceding SCADA software (mySCADA) in this chapter to learn how SCADA works, and to understand its basic configuration and wiring for a simple system.

mySCADA is powerful SCADA software that runs on Microsoft Windows, macOS, and Linux. It supports various PLCs, including S7-1200, S7-1500, S7-300, S7-400, ControlLogix, CompactLogix, Micrologix 1200, Micrologix 1400, Micrologix 1500, SLC 500, PLC 5, Omron PLCs, and Melsec-Q.

It basically consists...