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 48 - The Fieldbus Network I |
1. Explain basic motivations for a plant network for process automation. 2. Describe the physical network structure and its advantages. 3. Describe the Fieldbus network protocol structure and compare it with the general OSI model. 4. Describe the mechanism of coordinating communication among the devices on the bus.
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