Advanced Version of

Programmable Logic
Controller (AVoPLC)

By:
Engr. Muhammad Rafay Khan
Assistant Professor
SSUET, Electronics Department
PEC, IEEEP, IEP, AMOUBA & RF
Contents

1. Introduction
1.1 Automation
2.2 Control
2.3 Programmable Logic Controllers
2.3.1 PLCs: Definition and History
2.3.2 WLC versus PLC
2.3.3 Vendors Of PLCs
2.3.3 PLCs: Kinds
2.3.3 PLCs: Functions and construction
2.3.4 Continuous and Discrete Control
2.3.5 PLC Programming Languages
2.3.5.1 IEC 61131 Languages
2.3.5.2 Function blocks
2.3.5.3 Program Execution
2.3.5.4 Input / Output
2.3.5.5 Structured Text
2.3.5.6 Sequential Function Charts
2.3.5.7 Ladder Logic
2.3.5.8 Instruction Lists
2.3.5.9 Programming environment
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Major Vendors Of PLCs for Industrial Control

1.MODICOM - GOULD
2 ALLEN-BRADLEY
3.SCHNIEDER ELECTRIC (TeleMechanique)
4.GE
5.SQUARE-D
6.SIEMENS
7.Asea Brown Boveri (ABB)
8.Mitsubishi.
9.OMRON Etc.

ALLEN BRADLEY’s PLC

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PLC’s manufacturers
SWITZERLAND
SAIA, Weidmüller
EUROPE
Siemens (60% market share) [Simatic],
ABB (includes Hartmann & Braun, Elsag-Bailey, Satt Control,…)
[IndustrialIT],
Groupe Schneider [Télémécanique],
WAGO,
Phoenix Contact ...
WORLD MARKET
GE-Fanuc,
Honeywell,
Invensys (Foxboro)
Rockwell, (Allen-Bradley,…)
Emerson (Fisher Control, Rosemount, Westinghouse)
Hitachi, Toshiba, Fujitsu, Yokogawa
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Kinds of PLC

* Keep it in mind that the Processor and Memory are

always in the same unit and this unit is called a
Central Processing Unit.
COMPACT/MICRO/SMALL PLC
In small PLCs, the Processor, Solid-State memory, I/O modules and
the power supply are housed in a Single Compact Unit.
The programming device usually a hand-held unit with a keypad and
liquid crystal display (LCD).

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Micro Plc feature

• Monolithic (one-piece) construction

• Fixed casing
• Fixed number of I/O (most of them binary)
• No process computer capabilities (no MMC)
• Can be extended and networked by an extension (field) bus
• Sometimes LAN connection (Ethernet, Arcnet)
• Monoprocessor

Typical Product:
Mitsubishi MELSEC F
ABB AC31
SIMATIC S7

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Kinds Of Plc
INTEGRATED PLC
In Integrated PLCs is an also Modular PLC, the Processor, Solid-state
Memory and the power supply are housed in a Single Compact Unit but
somehow the I/O modules may be housed in one unit of an at least one
module only.
MODULAR/LARGE PLC
In Modular PLCs the processor and memory are in one unit, the power
supply in a second unit an but itd the I/O modules in additional units the
programming device which may be a personal computer, is, of course, a
separate, tethered item.

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Modular Plc feature
• Tailored to the needs of an application
• Housed in a 19" (42 cm) rack
(height 6U ( = 233 mm) or 3U
(=100mm)
• High processing power (several CPU)
• Large choice of I/O boards
• Concentration of a large number
of I/O
• Interface boards to field busses
• Requires marshalling of signals
• Primitive or no HMI
• Cost effective if the rack can be filled
• supply 115-230V~ ,
24V= or 48V= (redundant)

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Kinds of Plc

SOFT-PLC
Windows NT or CE-based automation products
Direct use of CPU or co-processors

• PC as engineering workstation
• PC as human interface (Visual Basic, Intellution, Wonderware)
• PC as real-time processor (Soft-PLC)
• PC assisted by a Co-Processor (ISA- or PC104 board)
• PC as field bus gateway to a distributed I/O system

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Kinds of Plc
Soft-PLC Architecture

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Kinds of PLC
Hand-Held PLC
In Hand-Held PLCs, the Processor, Solid-State memory, I/O modules and
the Power Supply are housed in a Single Compact Unit with Built- in
programming device usually a hand-held unit with a keypad and liquid
crystal display (LCD).

An Allen-Bradley hand-held programmer for MicroLogix 1000

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