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Industrial Automation from Scratch

By : Olushola Akande
Book Image

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

Downloading and installing mySCADA software

Let’s start by learning how to download the software, as it will be used in the SCADA project in the Interfacing SCADA with an S7-1200 PLC using mySCADA software section of this book.

Downloading mySCADA

We will perform the following steps to download the two pieces of software (myDESIGNER and myPRO) to our PC:

  1. Visit www.myscada.org and click on RESOURCES:
Figure 11.2 – The home page of mySCADA.org

Figure 11.2 – The home page of mySCADA.org

  1. Click on Downloads:
Figure 11.3 – The RESOURCES page

Figure 11.3 – The RESOURCES page

  1. Click on register or log in here, fill in the necessary details, and click Register:
Figure 11.4 – The DOWNLOADS page

Figure 11.4 – The DOWNLOADS page

  1. You should have the following screen if everything is okay:
Figure 11.5 – The welcome message

Figure 11.5 – The welcome message

  1. Check your email for a message from mySCADA, which contains the link to access your...