INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION

Academic Year 2015/2016 - 2° Year
Teaching Staff: Giuseppe NUNNARI
Credit Value: 6
Scientific field: ING-INF/04 - Systems and control engineering
Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
Taught classes: 35 hours
Term / Semester:
ENGLISH VERSION

Detailed Course Content

Continuous versus logic control. PID: Architecture and tuning approaches. Programmable logic controllers (PLC): architecture of a PLC, input-output modules special function modules PLC programming languages modules, special function modules. PLC programming languages. Graphic Graphic languages: Ladder Diagram, Function Block language (FBD), sequential function chart (SFC). Basic elements, instructions for timing and counting. Evolution rules Structures to control the program flow Examples of Evolution rules. Structures to control the program flow. Examples of programming using ladder diagram, FBD and SFC. Computer networks. The OSI model, network topologies, transmission media bus access methods: traditional standards: Ethernet token bus media, bus access methods: traditional standards: Ethernet, token bus, token ring. Computer networks for automation. Supervisory systems and data acquisition (SCADA). Modules of a SCADA system: database processing module, communication module, operator interface module, processing module, communication module, operator interface module, alarm management , recipe management module, maintenance support module, expert system module.


Textbook Information

R W. . Lewis -Programming Industrial Control Systems Using IEC 1131‐3.

P. Chiacchio, F. Basile - Tecnologie Tecnologie informatiche informatiche per l automazione l’automazione 2/ed.

C. Bonivento, L. Gentili, A. Paoli - Sistemi di automazione industriale