Industrial Automation and Control
Industrial Automation and Control. Instructor: Prof. S. Mukhopadhyay, Department of Electrical Engineering, IIT Kharagpur. This course provides an overall exposure to the technology of Industrial Automation and Control as widely seen in factories of all types both for discrete and continuous manufacturing. The course discusses a wide range of related topics from the advantage and architecture of automation systems, measurement systems including sensors and signal conditioning, discrete and continuous variable control systems, hydraulic, pneumatic and electric actuators, industrial communication and embedded computing and CNC Machines. (from nptel.ac.in)
Lecture 31 - PLC Hardware Environment (cont.) |
1. Mention the distinguishing features of IA computational tasks. 2. Mention major hardware components for a PLC. 3. Describe major typical functional features and performance specifications for CPU, IO, MMI and communication modules. 4. Explain the advantages of a function module. 5. Describe major typical function modules.
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