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The Art of Manufacturing

You're reading from The Art of Manufacturing Overcome control challenges for increasing efficiency in manufacturing using real-world examples

Product type Paperback

Published in Feb 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781804619452

Length 180 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Concepts

PLC Programming

Authors (2):

Ninad Deshpande

Sivaram Pothukuchi

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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Introduction to the Manufacturing Landscape and Innovative Automation in Everyday Life

2. Chapter 1: Automation Is a Part of Our Daily Lives FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: The Art of Temperature Control

4. Chapter 3: Tension Control – Managing Material Tension

5. Chapter 4: Level Control – Controlling the Level of Liquid to Avoid Drying Up or Spilling Over

6. Chapter 5: Motion Control – Control, Synchronization, and Interpolation of Axes for Accuracy and Precision

7. Chapter 6: Material Dispensing Control

8. Part 2: Automation and Humans

9. Chapter 7: The Interplay of Humans-Machines-Automation

10. Chapter 8: Automation – Dramatically Helping Avoid Human Intervention

11. Chapter 9: Automation Can Build a Super-Organism with Awareness

12. Chapter 10: What’s Next?

13. Index

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Programming platforms and programming languages

A programming platform is a suite of software that provides facilities for entering and editing a PLC program along with a compiler and a debugger. Furthermore, there will be a downloader and sometimes an uploader. Programming platforms are mostly PLC manufacturer specific.

Application software is written in a human-readable form and many choices are available. Previously, there was a plethora of programming languages—every vendor had its own variant of programming language. Therefore, a standard was developed by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC). This standard is defined under clause IEC 61131-3.

IEC 61131-3 languages

The majority of PLC systems adhere to the IEC 61131-3 standard that defines two textual programming languages: structured text (ST) and instruction list (IL); as well as three graphical languages: ladder diagram, function block diagram (FBD), and sequential function chart (SFC). Some systems...

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Authors (2)

Ninad Deshpande

Ninad Deshpande

Ninad Deshpande graduated in E&Tc Engineering from the University of Pune and has around 15 years' experience in the automation industry. He completed his MBA – Executive from SIBM. He has worked in different areas of the automation industry such as application development, testing, R&D, technology marketing, marketing, corporate communication, Global product management, and market research. After heading Marketing and Corporate Communications for B&R India (A member of the ABB Group), he became the Global Product Manager – cybersecurity in B&R Austria. Presently he is working as a Co-Founder & CEO at Sceptertech Digital. In 2019, World Marketing Congress awarded him with the “Most influential Global Marketing Leader” award.

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Sivaram Pothukuchi

Sivaram Pothukuchi

P.V. Sivaram graduated in Electronics Engineering from IIT-Madras in 1976 and began his career at BARC. He moved to automation in fields like Power T&D, Communications, and Power Plants in an MNC. He was the founder CEO of B&R Industrial Automation from 1996 until his retirement in 2018. He has hands-on experience in Distributed Systems, SCADA, DCS, and microcontroller applications and supervised projects in all types of machines – plastic, textile, pharma, packaging. His current mission is to prepare people for living in a digital world. He is convinced that technologies need to be explored and driven into applications by youngsters. Sivaram conducts training courses including “Digital Transformation for every man” and Digital Champions.

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