Industrial Automation using PLC 

The course spans more than 60 hours over 4 Weeks.
Time:  Starts around 13/7/20
Location: Siemens PLC Lab, Faculty of Engineering, ASU
CHEP Training Credit: 4 weeks
Cost:  2 Credit Hours
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​Instructor
TBD

Course Description:
The course has been designed to familiarise maintenance engineers, technicians, electricians with the operation, configuration, programming, and fault finding of a Siemens SIMATIC S7-300 Series programmable controller and the use of Siemens SIMATIC S7 software.

Course Content:

• SIMATIC S7 300 programmable controller architecture and associated hardware
• Physical installation
• Principles of PLC operation
• Systems configuration and I/O Module addressing
• Memory areas: PII, PIQ, Memory
• Addressing Principles
• Data Types
• Introduction to Step 7
• Methods of program representation: Ladder, FBD, STL
• Block types used within step 7: OB, FC, FB, DB, FB
• An introduction to Boolean algebra
• Common program instruction including Timer, Counter, Move, Set/Reset, POS & NEG edge detect
• Introduction to structured programmes - Sequence based approach
• Program documentation
• Loading, backing up and archiving of programs
• SIMATIC S7 fault finding principles
• Diagnostics tools and facilities
• System maintenance

​Learning Objectives:

• To be familiar with the setup and management of projects
• To understand how to setup and make changes to a hardware configuration
• To understand the structure of a PLC programme and its operation
• To be able to implement and edit a PLC programme including common blocks: OB, FC, FB, DB
• To understand the fundamentals of PLC logic instructions in Ladder, FBD, and STL format
• To understand more complex programming functions including Times and Counters
• To be able to use the S7 Software suite to be able to determine the cause of PLC and Machine faults