INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION

The Technical Seminar report submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of degree in
MASTER OF TECHNOLOGY
In
POWER ELECTRONICS & ELECTRICAL DRIVES
(ELECTRICAL AND ELECTRONICS ENGINEERING)
M.HARSHAVARDHAN (14FE1D5407)

Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering

VIGNANS LARA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY & SCIENCE
(Affiliated to Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University, Kakinada)
Vadlamudi-522213
Guntur District, Andhra Pradesh
2014-2016

AUTOMATION
Automation is basically the delegation of
human control functions to technical
equipment aimed towards achieving:
Higher productivity
Superior quality of end product
Efficient usage of energy and raw materials
Improved safety in working conditions etc.

HISTORY OF AUTOMATION
Manual control
Pneumatic control
Hard wired logic control
Electronic control using logic gates
Programmable logic controller

AUTOMATION TOOLS
PLC
DCS
SCADA
HMI
VFD

Advantages

Accurate and consistent information

Faster fault identification
Improved availability of system
Increased production
Reduced cost
Maintenance of quality and quantity
Improved safety conditions

PLC
A digitally operating electronic apparatus
which uses a programmable memory for the
internal
storage
of
instructions
by
implementing specific functions such as logic
sequencing, timing, counting, and arithmetic to
control, through digital or analog input/output
modules, various types of machines or
processes.

TYPES OF PLC

SCADA TOOLS

DYNAMIC REPRESENTATION
ALARMS
TRENDS
SCRIPTS
RECIPE
SECURITY
DATABASE CONNECTIVITY
DEVICE CONNECTIVITY

Elements of SCADA

Sensor and actuators

RTUs and PLCs
Communication
SCADA server
Historical/redundant/safety server
HMI computer
HMI software

TYPES OF SENSORS

Pressure sensors
Temperature sensors
Light sensors
Humidity sensors
Wind speed sensors
Water level sensors
Distance sensors

RTUs
Intelligent to control a process and multiple
processes
Data logging and alarm handling
Expandable
Asks the field devices for information
Can control IEDs (intelligent electronic
device)
Slave/master device

HMI Human Machine Interface

High quality graphics for realistic
representations of machinery and processes
Alarms (Real Time / Historical)
Trends (Real Time / Historical)
Reduce the cost of hardware.
Animate equipments and instrument based on
operator standards

DCS Distributed Control System

A distributed control system (DCS) is a
control system for a process or plant, wherein
control elements are distributed throughout the
system.

DEVELOPMENTS IN DCS
Wireless systems and protocols
Remote transmission, logging and data
historian
Mobile interfaces and controls
Embedded web-servers

Variable Frequency Drive (VFD)

A variable-frequency drive (VFD) (also
termed adjustable-frequency drive, variablespeed
drive, AC
drive, micro
drive or
inverter drive)
is
a
type
of
adjustable-speed drive used
in
electro-mechanical drive systems to control
AC motor speed and torque by varying motor
input frequency and voltage.

Thank you