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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

Understanding network protocols

A network protocol can be referred to as a method of data communication between two or more devices on a network. It is a set of rules that should be adhered to for communication to occur between two or more connected devices. Industrial network protocols enable communication between industrial network devices such as PLCs, HMIs, VFDs, PCs, transmitters, actuators, and more. This protocol encompasses the network topology, network media, network connectors, and more.

Many protocols are used around the world for communication. We will focus on industrial network protocols in this book.

Common industrial network protocols can be grouped as wired and wireless networks.

Wired network protocols

Wired network protocols can be grouped into two areas, as follows:

  • Fieldbus: Fieldbus is a group of industrial network protocols used for real-time distributed control, standardized as IEC 61158. One great advantage of the Fieldbus protocol is that...