The course Bus and Automation Technology provides basic knowledge about programmable logic controllers (PLC). With many examples, explanations, exercises and practical tasks, the basics and functionality of the PLC are vividly presented.
The course also includes a PROFIBUS interface to enable an optional combination with external PROFIBUS components or an external plant simulator, thus enabling the processes in bus and automation technology to be represented and understood realistically and without great effort.
Learning objectives
- independent implementation of a project
- programming
- project planning
- commissioning
- analysis
- correction
Topics
The course covers the following topics:
- Basics and basic terms (IEC 1131) of the PLC
- Logic connections, times, counters, data processing and program editing
- Simple sensors & signal conditioning with analogue digital transformers & multiplexers
- Projecting of an automatisation system
- Programming & initiation of the PLC
- Data transfer structures & protocols
- Transfer & error analysis
- Connection of external components
- Link of PROFIBUS users (GSD)
