Interview Questions

 How drive works, Calculate time in one pulse.

 Make a ladder diagram for 05 no. outputs with one proximity switch. A conveyor moves
television sets. s/w on output 1 when televisions between 15-17 pass, 2 between 18 to 20,
3 between 25-30 & 4 when 35 no television sets pass
 Star Delta starters & their power & control diagrams
 Reversing & forwarding circuits of motors
 On off, proportional & PID Controllers.
 Reading of Electrical Circuits
 How electrical signal is obtained from pressure sensors.
 RTD, Principle, types, How u will recognize whether RTD or thermocouple
 Difference between RTD & TC
 Thermistor, Principle, types, uses
 Difference between Micrologix & SLC 5
 How a laptop communicates with micrologix / SLC
 Which instructions Available in SLC not in micrologix
 Communication cables for Allen Bradley PLCs:
Micrologix: PM 02
Hmi: HM 02
SLC: CP3 Direct PLC RS 232 port
UIC for USB port to PLC DH 485 Port
PIC for comport to PLC DH 485 Port

 Difference between Star-Delta & DOL

 What is protocol.
 What is full duplex & what is half duplex
 RTD, thermocouple, Basic Electronics Transistor, Diode, Not gate,
 6 output s/w on one by one, not to use timer & comparator, make logic
 Tell me something about yourself?
 What is SCADA
 Which SCADA Software you have worked
 Which all PLCs you have worked, describe individually
 How many I/Os are there in micrologix
 Detailed description about the projects during training
 How to communicate between HMI & PLC, Which software is used for HMI
 Make a program that counts 5 times, works for 5 sec & then s/w off & also use a reset
button
 Working principle of Inductive & capacitive proximity switches
 Difference between relay & contactor
 sourcing & sinking concept of PLCs
 Control the level of a tank by proportional control valve using analog level sensor
1. Define Analog & digital I/O, what is resolution
2. Draw PLC Wiring
3. Generate a pulse & count up to 10 pulses
4. Load cell
General
1) What is Automation?
Automation is delegation of human control functions to technical equipment for increasing
productivity, better quality, reduced cost & Increase in safety conditions.

2) What are the different components used in Automation?

 Sensors for sensing the input parameters
 Transmitters for Transmitting the raw signal in electrical form.
 Control systems which include

3) Different control systems used in Automation

4) Explain PID Based control system
5) Difference between PLC & relay
6) Difference between PLC & DCS
7) What is Encoder

Instrumentation
1) Sensors used for measuring different parameters
2) What is Transmitter
3) Why 4-20ma signal is preferred over 0-10v signal
4) Why 4-20ma signal is preferred over 0-20ma signal
5) Difference between 2 wire, 3 wire & 4 wire transmitter
6) What is smart transmitter
7) What is field bus
8) What is protocol
9) RS 232, RS 485,
10) What is actuator
11) How RTD Works
12) Use of 3rd wire in RTD (lead resistor compensation)
13) Temperature range supported by RTD
14) Working of Thermocouple
15) What is cold junction compensation
16) Temp range supported by Thermocouple
17) Can I split my one T/C signal to two separate instruments
18) What are different types flow measuring instruments used
19) What are different types of Pressure measuring instruments used
20) What is a control valve & functioning
21) How capacitive & Inductive sensors function
22)

SCADA
1) What is purpose of SCADA & HMI
2) Features of SCADA software
3) Applications of SCADA software
4) Some of the leading SCADA Companies
5) Types of SCADA packages in Wonderware
6) Different licensing patterns used in SCADA
7) Types of windows
8) What is symbol factory
9) What type of user inputs used in Intouch
10) Types of animation given in Intouch
11) What are trends
12) What are alarms & events
13) Security management
14) What is the use of scripts in intouch
15) What is driver
16) What is DDE

PLC
1) What is PLC, Role of PLC in Automation, Application of PLC
2) Role of each component of PLC
3) Role of communication module
4) Difference between fixed and modular PLCs
5) What are the types of I/Os
6) What is the meaning of resolution in I/O Cards in PLCs
7) What is analog input module
8) What is analog output module
9) Meaning of universal analog input card
10) Inputs and outputs connected to PLC
11) Source & sink concept
12) What is forcing of I/O
13) Scan cycle of a PLC
14) What is Scan time in PLC? Typical scan time in PLCs. What effects scan
time?
15) Different languages to Program a PLC
16) What is a ladder diagram
17) What is redundancy
18) Need for redundancy, types of redundancy
19) What are the components of redundant PLC System
20) Commonly used instructions in PLCs
21) Use of timers & counters
22) PLC Ranges available in Allen Bradley PLC
23) Software used with AB PLC & its uses
24) Use of RS Linx software
25) What file gets created in PC for RS Logix PLC Program
26) How to create linkages between PLCs and PLC Programming software
27) Meaning of Upload & download
28) Various communication interfaces supported by AB
29) Data Hightway: a Proprietary data network used by AB PLCs to
communicate information to and from other PLCs on the network or and from host
computers attached to the network
Control Net: A real time, control layer network providing high speed transport of both
time-critical IO data and messaging data including upload / download of programming
and configuration data and peer to peer messaging on a single physical media link
Device Net: a low cost communication link that connects industrial devices to a
network. It is based on broadcast oriented communication protocol- the Control Area
Network (CAN)
Ethernet: Ethernet based coaxial cable transmits data at speeds up to 100MBPS.
Ethernet is used as transport vehicle by several upper level protocols TCP/IP.
33) What is latency in communication?
34) How communication protocols are distinguished
35) Comparison between various protocols used with AB
36) Various PLC Systems in SIMATIC S7 range
37) Components of Siemens S7-300 PLC system
38) Communication protocols used in Siemens
39) What are the blocks used in Siemens (DB, OB, FC, PB, & FB)
OBs: determine the structure of the user program
Data Block: These are the blocks used by logic blocks in CPU Program for storing the
data. DB’s do not contain any instructions and take up space in the user memory. The user
program can access a data block with bit, byte, word or double word operations
Global Data block: these contain information that can be accessed by all the logic
blocks in the user program.
Instant Data Block: these DBs are always assigned to a particular FB
Function Blocks: it is a block with a memory. A FB contains a program that is always
executed when a different logic block calls the FB. FB make it much easier to program
frequently occurring complex functions.
Statement List: STL is a textual programming language that can be used to create the
code section of logic blocks. Its syntax for statements is similar to assembly language and
consists of instructions followed by addresses on which the instructions acts.