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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 TIA Portal V13 Professional and PLCSIM

Siemens offers a 21-day free trial of their programming software (TIA Portal). There is also a simulator that allows you to simulate your program. Hence, you can write a program and see how it runs even when you don’t have a live PLC by using the simulator (PLCSIM). You can download both TIA Portal V13 Professional and PLCSIM free online and use it to learn PLC programming.

Downloading TIA Portal V13 and PLCSIM

The following steps should be followed to download TIA Portal V13 and PLCSIM:

  1. The first step is to visit the download page. The following link should take you to the download page:

    https://support.industry.siemens.com/cs/document/109745155/simatic-step-7-including-plcsim-v13-sp2-trial-download?dti=0&lc=en-WW

    The following screenshot shows the page of the preceding link:

    Figure 8.18 – Download page of Siemens TIA Portal V13 Professional and PLCSIM (1)
  2. Scroll to the STEP 7 Professional V13 SP2...