Introduction to Industrial

Electronics
 Objectives

• To discuss the brief history of industrial electronics

• To define industrial electronics
• To identify some tools and equipment used in
industrial electronics
• To explain the components and basic block diagram of
industrial control system
• To be familiar with some industrial control system
 History of Industrial Electronics
• In our modern world, we make daily use of
products made from the industrialized area
known commonly as factories.
• These product includes a wide variety of goods
/ products manufactured for our consumption.
• There was a time when almost all products
were hand-made and the factory system did
not exist.
 History of Industrial Electronics
• The transition from a world of artisan manufacture
to a factory system, and all its attendant benefits
with which we are familiar, is known as the Industrial
Revolution.
• It began in Britain in the early years of the 18th
century.
• In a little over a century, Britain went from a largely
rural, agrarian population to a country of
industrialized towns, factories, mines and workshops.
 History of Industrial Electronics
• Britain was, in fact, already beginning to
develop a manufacturing industry during the
early years of the early 18th century, but it
was from the 1730’s that its growth
accelerated.
• By the middle of the 19th century, the
Industrial Revolution had produced great
changes in Britain and in Europe.
 History of Industrial Electronics
• The major driving force of the period was
steam power.
• Steam technology was highly developed and,
with the help of the newly-invented precision
lathe, larger, more efficient engines were
produced.
• These engines used much less coal to fuel
them.
 2nd Industrial Revolution
• As we have seen, the second Industrial
Revolution was based on the development of
new found fuel energy sources, such as gas
and electricity.
• These energy sources were used to generate
the power needed to drive industry.
 History of Industrial Electronics
• Among the emerging new fuel sources,
mineral oil was also put to use in some ways it
was the needs of the Industrial Revolution
itself which, in the end, came to the aid of the
working classes.
• As the Industrial Revolution progressed there
was an increasing need for educated workers.
 History of Industrial Electronics
• In the old days it was not a problem if a farm
hand was illiterate.
• However, in the new industrial society,
engineers, architects, mechanics and builders
all needed literate workers who were able to
read instructions, take measurements and
interpret drawings and plans.
 History of Industrial Electronics
• History also includes:
– Power Electronics (1930)
– Robotics (late 1950)
– Programmable Logic Controllers (late 1960)
– Microcontroller ( 1971)
– Field Programmable Gate Array (mid 1980)
– Programmable Automation Controller (2001)
 Power Electronics
• 1880-1890 – electric light, DC generator and motor,
alternator, and synchronous motor.
• 1890-1900 – induction motor, large transformer,
rotary converters.
• 1900-1920 – three-phase transmission, mercury arc
rectifier, diode and triode
• 1920-1940 – thyratron, klystron, and magnetron
• 1940-1960 – transistor, thyristor, triac
• 1960----MOSFET, IGBT, ETC.
 Industry
• It refers to an area of economic production
focused on manufacturing which involves
large amount of upfront capital investment
before any profit can be realized.
• It is the organized action of making goods and
services for sale.
 Industrial Electronics
• It refers to an equipment, tools, and processes
that involve electronics and are used in an
industrial application.
Industrial Control System

Control
Input Output

Feedback
 Industrial Control System
• Human operator input usually has the form of
selector switch settings and/or potentiometer dial
settings.
• Such operator input represents the desired system
response or, in other words, the production results
expected from the system.
• The information represents such things as the
mechanical positions of movable parts:
temperatures, pressures, fluid flow, etc.
 Industrial Control System

• In any industrial system, the control circuits

constantly receive and process information about the
condition in the system.
• The control circuitry must take all this information
and combine with input from human operator.
• Based on the comparison between system
information and human input, the control circuitry
makes decision.
 Industrial Control System
• These decisions concern the next action of the
system itself, such as whether to start/stop a
motor, whether to speed up or slow down a
mechanical motion, whether to open or close
a control valve, or even whether to shut down
the system entirely because of unsafe
condition.
• The output part do the action.
 Industrial Control System
• The feedback part sends information in the
control system to regulate some action of the
whole system.
• Industrial system consists of the following:
power control system, electronic switches,
industrial electronic devices.
 Industrial Control System
Example of Industrial Control System
– automatic welding system
– servo system
– warehouse humidity controller
– pressure control system
– automatic weighing controller
– tension controller
– temperature controller
– refrigeration system
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