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Equipment and hardware, principles of PLC operation, general programming procedures, editing and monitoring, timers, counters and sequences, basic industrial process problems, installation and safety.
Stage B
Programming techniques for v...
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Equipment and hardware, principles of PLC operation, general programming procedures, editing and monitoring, timers, counters and sequences, basic industrial process problems, installation and safety.
Stage B
Programming techniques for various types of PLC, PC programming software, operation with peripheral devices, numerical processing, sequencing and machine control, industrial process problems, troubleshooting and maintenance.
Stage C
Automation software design techniques. Automation of an industrial process exercise. Analogue interfaces units, analogue alarms and analogue control of processes using the PLC. Introduction to Operator Interfaces, and basic Human Machine Interfaces (HMIs).
Stage D
High Speed processing on a PLC, Interrupts and high speed counters. Graphical Sequence control techniques using IEC-1131-3 programming. Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition Systems (SCADA) for monitoring of PLC systems. PLC networks, communications, remote and distributed I/O and Field bus. A mini project will allow programme candidates to choose a specific area of automation using PLCs and implement a short project.
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