EE15-1705 E6 Industrial Automation

Department of Electrical Engineering

School of Engineering
CUSAT
 Machine Operation by Pushbuttons and Sensor
• Let’s consider the case of a machine that contains two direct on line starting motors being supplied by
power through the relays C1 and C2.
• The first motor (C1) is being controlled manually through the utilization of two pushbuttons, b0 for STOP
and b1 for START.
• The second motor (C2) is being controlled from a sensor s.
• Moreover, in this automation we would like to introduce the concept of mutual exclusion, which means
that the operation of one motor should exclude the operation of the other one.

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Design of an automation circuit
● Identify the states and causes of change in state
● Draw the state diagram
● Derive the turn on and turn off conditions
● Write down the logic expressions
● Synthesize the automation circuit from logic expressions

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Operation of Two Motors with Time Delay Between Them
Let’s consider a machine that contains two motors with direct on line starting and supplied
power by two relays, C1 and C2. We would like one of the motors to start immediately with
the press of a button b1, while the second motor should start automatically after the elapse
of a time T. In every state of operation, the press of a button b0 should stop the operation of
both motors.
States conditions causes
S0 C1 OFF, C2 OFF, T OFF
Start button b1
0 0 0
Need to control C1, C2 and Timer
S1 C1 ON, C2 OFF, T ON Two pushbuttons b0 and b1
Delay time
Stop button b0 1 0 1
Three states S0,S1 and S2
S2 C1 ON, C2 ON, T OFF
1 1 0 Stop button b0
S0 C1 OFF, C2 OFF, T OFF
0 0 0

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 States conditions causes
S0 C1 OFF, C2 OFF, T OFF
Start button b1
0 0 0
S1 C1 ON, C2 OFF, T ON
Delay time
Stop button b0 1 0 1
S2 C1 ON, C2 ON, T OFF
1 1 0 Stop button b0
S0 C1 OFF, C2 OFF, T OFF
0 0 0

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