Презентация на английском языке "Industrial Automation".

Industrial Automation

Types of Industrial Automation Systems

What is Industrial Automation?

Industrial automation facilitates to increase the product quality, reliability and production rate while reducing production and design cost by adopting new, innovative and integrated technologies and services.

What is Industrial Automation?

Automation takes a step further mechanization that uses a particular machinery mechanism aided human operators for performing a task. Mechanization is the manual operation of a task using powered machinery that depends on human decision making.

What is Industrial Automation?

On the other hand, automation replaces the human involvement with the use of logical programming commands and powerful machineries.

What is Industrial Automation?

Industrial automation can be defined as the use of set technologies and automatic control devices. These automation devices include programmable logic controllers (PLCs), personal computers (PCs), programmable automation controllers (PACs), and technologies include various industrial communication systems.

Advantages of Automation System

To increase productivity

Automation of factory or manufacturing improves production rate through a better control of production.

It helps to produce mass production by reducing assembly time per product with a greater production quality.

Advantages of Automation System

To provide optimum cost of operation

Integration of various processes in industry with automated machineries, minimizes cycle times and effort and hence the need of human labor gets reduced.

Advantages of Automation System

To improve product quality

Since the automation reduces the human involvement, the possibility of human errors also gets eliminated.

There is controlling and monitoring the industrial processes in all stages from the start to an end product.

Advantages of Automation System

To reduce routine checks

Automation completely reduces the need for manual checking of various process parameters.

Advantages of Automation System

To raise the level of safety

Industrial automation increases the level of safety to personnel by substituting them with automated machines in risky working conditions. Traditionally, industrial robots and robotic devices are implemented in such places.

Hierarchy of an Industrial Automation System

Field Level

Sensors and actuators transfer the data of processes and machines to the next higher level for monitoring and analysis.

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Sensors convert the real time parameters like temperature, pressure, flow, level, etc into electrical signals. This sensor data is transferred to the controller to monitor and analyze the real time parameters. These sensors include thermocouple(1), proximity sensors(2), RTDs ( resistance temperature detector ) (3), flow meters (4).

Actuators

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On the other hand actuators converts the electrical signals (from the controllers) into mechanical means to control the processes. There are flow control valves (1), solenoid valves (2), pneumatic actuators (3), relays (4).

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DC motors (1) and servo motors (2) are the examples of actuators.

Hierarchy of an Industrial Automation System

Control Level

This level consists of CNC (computer numerical control) machines, PLCs (programmable logic controllers), which acquires the process parameters from various sensors.

Hierarchy of an Industrial Automation System

Control Level

The automatic controllers drive the actuators based on the processed sensor signals and program or control technique.

Hierarchy of an Industrial Automation System

Supervising and Production Control Level

In this level, automatic devices and monitoring systems control like Human Machine Interface (HMI), supervising various parameters, machine start and shutdown. Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (диспетчерский контроль и сбор данных) (SCADA) is used in this level.

Hierarchy of an Industrial Automation System

Information Level

This is the top level of the industrial automation which manages the whole automation system. The tasks of this level include production planning, customer and market analysis, orders and sales.

Types of Industrial Automation Systems 1. Fixed Automation

This type of automation is employed to perform fixed and repetitive operations in order to achieve high production rates. Some of these automated systems are paint shops (покрасочные цеха) and conveyors.

Types of Industrial Automation Systems 2. Programmable Automation

In this automation, assembling or processing operations can be changed with the modification of control program in the automated equipment.

Examples of this automation system are numerically controlled machines, paper mills, industrial robots.

Types of Industrial Automation Systems 3. Flexible or Soft Automation

This automation system provides the automatic control equipment that offers a great flexibility for making changes in the product design. These changes can be performed quickly through the commands given in the form of codes by the human operators.

Some of the examples of this automation system are multipurpose CNC machines.