Industrial Automation using PLC
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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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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:
Learning Objectives:
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