Common Programmable Controllers and Their Applications (Series of Opto-Mechatronics)

Author: Xie Shaorong Luo Jun Wu Ande
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Publish Date: 2006-06-01
Features: This book addresses the issue of numerous PLC manufacturers and diverse models in the current market, where each manufacturer has its own standards. It focuses on how to find the right entry point to learn and master PLC technology, quickly solve practical problems, and complete most programming design tasks—a topic of great interest to engineering professionals and beginners. Taking the dominant PLC products in the domestic market as examples, such as the S7-200 series from Siemens and A-B (Western-style), and the CPM1A series, FX2N series, and FP1 series from Omron, Mitsubishi, and Panasonic Electric (Eastern-style), the book systematically explains the basic principles, hardware and software structures, and rich instruction sets of five mainstream PLCs. It also covers the design of PLC control systems and programming methods for application software, illustrated with numerous examples and timing diagrams to facilitate easy and thorough understanding. These five products cover the major PLC markets in China, and mastering them will help readers form a more comprehensive understanding. This book is suitable for engineering professionals in fields such as industrial automation, electrical engineering and automation, mechatronics, applied electronics, and process control, as well as serving as a textbook or reference material for relevant majors in colleges and universities.