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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

Index

As this ebook edition doesn't have fixed pagination, the page numbers below are hyperlinked for reference only, based on the printed edition of this book.

Symbols

5G-enabled smart factory

benefits 446

A

AC induction motor 51

AC motor 70

AC motor, types

asynchronous AC motors 71-75

synchronous AC motors 70

AC servo motor 53

actuators 4, 48

types 48

Adjustable Speed Drive (ASD) 90

air cylinder 59

Alarm Management System (AMS) 312

alternating current (AC) motors 50, 51

analog input, of PLC for process control

analog signals 377-379

analog values, reading 379

normalizing 380

scaling 380

signal processing 380

wiring and programming 377

analog input signal processing

live PLC, using 395-401

program, downloading to live PLC 402-409

program observation 409-411

simulation, with virtual PLC 380-395

analog signal

program observation 377

Analog-to-Digital Converter (ADC)...