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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

Questions

The following questions will help test your understanding of this chapter. Ensure you have read and understood the topics in this chapter before attempting these questions:

  1. The term ____________ describes the connection between two or more industrial automation/control devices such as controllers, sensors/transmitters, actuators, PCs, and more to exchange data for real-time monitoring and process control purposes in harsh environments.
  2. Each device in a network can be referred to as a _________________
  3. __________________ refers to the physical and logical arrangement of a network.
  4. ___________________ refers to the pattern in which data is being transferred between the nodes in the network.
  5. In the ______________ topology, each node is connected to a central device, which can be a switch, router, or hub.
  6. ________________ can be defined as the channel of communication that’s used to interconnect nodes on a network.
  7. A ________________ network...