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Industrial Automation from Scratch

A hands-on guide to using sensors, actuators, PLCs, HMIs, and SCADA to automate industrial processes

This book will help you understand what sensors and actuators are and how to wire and program a PLC to perform industrial control and automation tasks with ease. You’ll learn to program HMIs and SCADA and practice them using open source, free software, along with mastering the technology to advance your career in the industrial automation field.

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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.

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Packt Publishing Ltd

Packt Publishing are an established global technical learning content provider, founded in Birmingham, UK with over twenty years’ experience in delivering premium rich content from ground-breaking authors on a wide range of emerging and popular technologies. Our titles have global relevance our multimedia portfolio includes over 9,000 books, e-books, audiobooks and video courses. www.packtpub.com

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  1. Introduction to Industrial Automation
  2. Switches and Sensors – Working Principles, Applications, and Wiring
  3. Actuators and Their Applications in Industrial Automation
  4. Overview of AC and DC Motors
  5. Introduction to Variable Frequency Drive (VFD)
  6. Drawing Schematic/Wiring Diagrams Using CAD Software
  7. Understanding PLC Hardware and Wiring
  8. Understanding PLC Software and Programming with TIA Portal
  9. Deep Dive into PLC Programming with TIA Portal
  10. Understanding Human Machine Interfaces (HMIs)
  11. Exploring Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition (SCADA)
  12. Process Control – Essentials
  13. Industrial Network and Communication Protocols Fundamentals
  14. Exploring Smart Factory (Industry 4.0) with 5G

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This book is published on Leanpub by Packt Publishing Ltd

Packt Publishing are an established global technical learning content provider, founded in Birmingham, UK with over twenty years’ experience in delivering premium rich content from ground-breaking authors on a wide range of emerging and popular technologies. Our titles have global relevance our multimedia portfolio includes over 9,000 books, e-books, audiobooks and video courses. www.packtpub.com

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