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Industrial Automation
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What is Automation ?
Automation is basically the delegation of human control
function to technical equipment for
Increasing Productivity
Increasing Quality
Reducing Cost
Increasing Safety in working conditions
Programmable Logic Controllers
Instead of achieving the desired control or automation through physical wiring of control devices, in PLC it is achieved through a program or say software.
In 1970s with the coming of microprocessors and associated peripheral chips, the whole process of control and automation underwent a radical change.
The programmable controllers have in recent years experienced an unprecedented growth as universal element in Industrial Automation.