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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

9 Understanding Programmable Logic Controller – Part 3

In the previous chapter, we learnt the fundamentals of PLC programming which include PLC programming languages, PLC programming devices, PLC programming software, Ladder Diagram basics, elements of Ladder Diagram (ladder logic program), rules for Ladder Diagram programming, downloading and installing TIA Portal V13 professional and PLCSIM, and how to create a project and write some programs with the programming software (TIA Portal).

In this chapter you will dive deeper by practicing how to use the programming software you downloaded and installed in the previous chapter. This chapter also includes simulation of programs which will enable you to see the result of the programs you have written right there on your PC or laptop even when you don’t have the real PLC to test or practice.

We are going to cover the following main topics in this chapter:

  • Opening a saved program
  • Simulating programs with Siemens TIA portal using...