Technician's guide to programmable controllers

Author(s)

    • Cox, Richard A.
    • Borden, Terry R.

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Technician's guide to programmable controllers

Richard A. Cox, Terry R. Borden

Thomson Delmar Learning, c2007

5th ed

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Includes index

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Description

Hailed as the most comprehensive introduction to PLCs on the market today, this newly updated 5th Edition covers theory, hardware, instructions, programming, installation, startup, and troubleshooting in a way that is easy to understand and apply. New material has been added to explain communication networks, basic control signals, linear scaling of analog process signals, and Proportional Integral Derivative (PID) instructions used by many PLC applications. Supplementary programming examples utilizing the PLC instructions in the book impart a better understanding of the various instructions and how they can be combined to create simple yet effective control logic solutions for today's world.

Table of Contents

Preface. Chapter 1-What is a Programmable Logic Controller (PLC)?. Chapter 2-Understanding the Input/Output (I/O) Section. Chapter 3-Processor Unit. Chapter 4-Programming Devices (Programmers). Chapter 5-Memory organization. Chapter 6-Numbering Systems. Chapter 7-Understanding and Using Ladder Diagrams. Chapter 8-Relay Type Instructions. Chapter 9-Programming a PLC. Chapter 10-Programming Considerations. Chapter 11-Program Control Instructions. Chapter 12-Programming Timers. Chapter 13-Programming Counters. Chapter 14-Data Manipulation. Chapter 15-Math Functions. Chapter 16-Word and File Moves. Chapter 17-Sequencers. Chapter 18-Process Control Signals, Scaling, and PID Instructions. Chapter 19-Programming with Boolean. Chapter 20-Understanding Communication Networks. Chapter 21 - Start Up and Troubleshooting. Chapter 22 - PLC Programming Examples. Glossary. Index.

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  • NCID
    BA82030481
  • ISBN
    • 9781401890070
  • LCCN
    2006000329
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Clifton Park, N.Y.
  • Pages/Volumes
    xi, 451 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
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