INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION

By K. S. Vijayakumar
R. Pravin
M. Chinnadurai
 INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION
• CONTENT

• What is Industrial Automation?

• How it can be achieved?
• Classification.
• Tools required for automation.
• Advantages
• Example of automation system.
• Conclusion.
 What is Industrial Automation?

• Automation takes a step further mechanization

that uses a particular machinery mechanism
aided human operators for performing a task.
Mechanization is the manual operation of a task
using powered machinery that depends on
human decision making.
• On the other hand, automation replaces the
human involvement with the use of logical
programming commands and powerful
machineries.
• Industrial Automation is the replacement with
computers and machines to that of human
thinking.

• The word Automation gives the meaning ‘self

dictating’ or ‘a mechanism move by itself’ that
derived from the Greek words Auto.

• Matos where auto means self while Matos

means moving.
• Industrial automation can be defined as the
use of set technologies and automatic control
devices that results the automatic operation
and control of industrial processes without
significant human intervention and achieving
superior performance than manual control.

• These automation devices include PLCs, PCs,

PACs, etc. and technologies include various
industrial communication systems
In Thermal power plants automation provided
for achieving sustainable, safe and economic
operations.

It provides the total integrated automation

(TIA) by automating every section of power
plant with efficient control devices, field
sensors and actuating devices
 HOW IT CAN BE ACHIEVED ?

* Automation has been achieved by various means including

mechanical, hydraulic, pneumatic, electrical , electronic devices
and computers, usually in combination. Complicated systems ,
such modern factories, airplanes and ships typically use all these
combined techniques

* the diagram is the example for an

Automated machine which combines multiple
Technologies to perform automated task
 Classification
* Autonomous automation - autonomous software agents
to adapt controllers of computer controlled industrial
machinery and processes
* Building automation - advanced functionality provided
by the control system of a building . A building
automation system (BAS) is an example of a distributed
system

* Home automation - control system of a home

 AUTOMATED MACHINES

• VENDING MACHINE: Which gives us required item or food

item when we drop a coin

• ROBOT: a mechanical or virtual intelligent agent that can perform

tasks automatically or with guidance, typically by remote control.

• CONVEYORS : Which carries things fast autatically and reduces

the work load for human​
 Benefits of Automation system
• Automation system provides the automatic
control equipment that offers a great flexibility
for making changes in the product design.
These changes can be performed quickly
through the commands given in the form of
codes by the human operators.
• Examples of this automation system are
numerically controlled machines, paper mills,
steel rolling mills, industrial robots, etc.
 Tools required to make a machine
automated ?
* Artificial neural network (ANN)
* Human machine interface (HMI)
* Laboratory information management systems (LIMS)
* Industrial control systems (ICS)
* Distributed control systems (DCS)
* Manufacturing execution systems (MES)
* Programmable automation controller (PAC)
* Programmable logic controller (PLC)
* Supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA)
* Simulation engineering technology (SET)
 CONCLUSION

The automation industry seems to be developing

endlessly and in the near future it will play sheer
dominance in industrial field and to relive the
work load of human and also with automatic
machines we can get blazing speed and great
accuracy.
 Reference
*“Automation-definitions from Dictionary.com
Dictionary.reference.com Archieved from the
Original On 29 April 2008
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