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Control System Training: Introduction To Industrial Automation
Control System Training: Introduction To Industrial Automation
• Discrete industries
• Discrete industry term for the manufacturing of finished products that
are distinct items capable of being easily counted, touched or seen. In
theory, a discrete product can be broken down at the end of its
lifecycle so its basic components can be recycled. An automobile is a
product of discrete manufacturing.
• Process industries
• In process industry, the product is created by using a formula or recipe
to refine raw ingredients and the final product cannot be broken down
to its basic components. Process manufacturing industries include
chemicals, food and beverage, gasoline, paint and pharmaceutical.
• Thus each process is separated from the other while planning and setting
the Manufacturing requirements to ensure that the individual processes
are better controlled and maintained if they are dealt separately.
• The risk for humans also rises in case of process industries due to the usage
of chemicals and the condition of parameters(temperature, pressure, flow,
etc..) which are controlled.
• Due to the above mentioned factors and other such factors, industries have
long been looking for alternative techniques where in the process can be
done accurately resulting in better quality of products as well as providing
safe work environment.
•This can be done by two ways : the earlier manual control and the
automated control.
• Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) are the most widely used robust
industrial controllers which are capable of delivering automatic control
functions based on inputs from sensors and the programs downloaded into
the PLC.
• DCS is the advanced or more integrated controller used for large process
industries.