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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

Summary

Congratulation! You have successfully completed chapter four of this book. Well done. The chapter explained electric motor as a machine used to convert electrical energy to mechanical energy. By classifying electric motor based on the type of power supply they use, we have AC motor and DC motor. AC motor can further be classified into synchronous and asynchronous while DC motor can be further classified as brushed and brushless.

You should now understand asynchronous motor and be able to connect it in star or delta. Also, you should be able to connect wire an asynchronous motor to start and stop it using DOL starter method etc.

The chapter also discussed stepper motor and servo motor. You should now understand a stepper motor and how to drive them. And finally, you should now have an idea of how a servo motor can be connected to a PLC.

The knowledge acquired in this chapter will help in understanding Variable Frequency Drive (VFD) in the next chapter.