Regardless of the rise of elective control arrangements, the notoriety of the PLC continue pushing ahead and perseveres. AS Automation Services otherwise known as PLC Training Center Malaysia will offer ELEVEN reasons why regardless you need a PLC for manufacturing, housing automation, and other every day needs.
Quite a while back, when the PLC remained as the main feasible alternative for control in industrial automation fields. Today engineers have progressively decision as modern PCs, delicate PLCs and board PCs that chimp the usefulness of the PLC/HMI mix. Engineers could even, on the off chance that they felt so slanted, form their own custom controller around a Raspberry Pi board.
Regardless of the development of these new control alternatives, there are as yet many convincing motivations to utilize a PLC. Here are only eleven of them.
Regardless of the development of these new control alternatives, there are as yet many convincing motivations to utilize a PLC. Here are only eleven of them.
1. Peacefulness.
Both PLCs (Programming Logic Controllers) and PCs have made some amazing progress since their unassuming beginnings however there is a major contrast in how these unmistakable control choices proceed to develop and this has noteworthy ramifications for long haul support. The oversaw development of the PLC implies that merchants can and do bolster their items over extensive stretches of time, both as far as equipment and programming. That implies, with Mitsubishi Electric for instance, that we could take the application program for instance, from a multi year old FX PLC and import it straight into a spic and span FX5U. A client could introduce the very most recent controller and have the application back fully operational very quickly. How might you even mull over doing likewise with a PC based arrangement?
There are numerous enterprises where that degree of help isn't just attractive however really a pattern prerequisite. There is discussion in the water business, for instance, of structure providers having the option to guarantee backing of control frameworks for as long as 20 years. Obviously the control equipment will change over that time yet PLC clients have the true serenity of realizing that the product will constantly port to the most recent controller.
There are numerous enterprises where that degree of help isn't just attractive however really a pattern prerequisite. There is discussion in the water business, for instance, of structure providers having the option to guarantee backing of control frameworks for as long as 20 years. Obviously the control equipment will change over that time yet PLC clients have the true serenity of realizing that the product will constantly port to the most recent controller.
2. Inherently dependable and robust.
The advanced industrial PC gives a steady processing stage and it is uncalled for to recommend that it bolted up and smashed with the unerring consistency of a work desktop PC. Be that as it may, it isn't on equivalent terms with a PLC.
The continuous working framework that runs close by Windows on a commonplace industrial PC has been intended to attempt to give a similar degree of heartiness as you get from a PLC CPU.
In the event that a PC worked in complete segregation, maybe that would be the finish of the unwavering quality discussion. Anyway no controller does; there are peripherals to associate, I/O to arrange and different parts to converse with, each requiring their own drivers to be stacked into the PC. Will the drivers for these items have been tried in blend and altogether demonstrated? It appears to be far-fetched. Conflicts can and do happen and issues can be exacerbated each time those drivers are refreshed.
It is practically unavoidable, at that point, that a industrial PC will crash and what may that mean for the control procedure? On the other hand, when did you last know about anybody expecting to reboot a PLC after a product crash – presumably never…
The continuous working framework that runs close by Windows on a commonplace industrial PC has been intended to attempt to give a similar degree of heartiness as you get from a PLC CPU.
In the event that a PC worked in complete segregation, maybe that would be the finish of the unwavering quality discussion. Anyway no controller does; there are peripherals to associate, I/O to arrange and different parts to converse with, each requiring their own drivers to be stacked into the PC. Will the drivers for these items have been tried in blend and altogether demonstrated? It appears to be far-fetched. Conflicts can and do happen and issues can be exacerbated each time those drivers are refreshed.
It is practically unavoidable, at that point, that a industrial PC will crash and what may that mean for the control procedure? On the other hand, when did you last know about anybody expecting to reboot a PLC after a product crash – presumably never…
3. Scalability
The greatest selling PLCs by volume covering the biggest spread of uses are those offering 40 I/O or less. In such applications, the PLC speaks to an exceptionally moderate arrangement, considerably more so than a proportional PC-based framework. Be that as it may, a similar basic stage is likewise versatile to a huge number of I/O, with clients ready to port control projects to greater PLCs, advantage from a similar programming condition and exploit totally secluded equipment.
The customization capability of the PLC is tremendous, with various approaches to extend the usefulness yet all while never leaving a typical stage.
The customization capability of the PLC is tremendous, with various approaches to extend the usefulness yet all while never leaving a typical stage.
4. Programming
Indeed, even today, for each engineers leaving college who is conversant in structured text programming and for each engineer who is happy with working in C or C++, there are presumably ten more who just need to utilize ladder logic, especially at the lower I/O end of the application range.
In the middle of, there are those applications that may begin little, maybe written in ladder logic yet then develop as the application advances – exploiting the adaptability of the PLC platform – profiting by the capacity to compose the control program in structured text and to relocate programming capacity obstructs that will remove a significant part of the design exertion.
At AS Automation Services we offer a Hands-On fully equipped PLC lab training, our main concentration is on Ladder Logic Programming as it is still in demand in Malaysia and its more user friendly, quick to understand and more effective in projects. With Siemens, Mitsubishi, Rockwell Automation and Omron PLC's, we will find and provide you the training you require.
In the middle of, there are those applications that may begin little, maybe written in ladder logic yet then develop as the application advances – exploiting the adaptability of the PLC platform – profiting by the capacity to compose the control program in structured text and to relocate programming capacity obstructs that will remove a significant part of the design exertion.
At AS Automation Services we offer a Hands-On fully equipped PLC lab training, our main concentration is on Ladder Logic Programming as it is still in demand in Malaysia and its more user friendly, quick to understand and more effective in projects. With Siemens, Mitsubishi, Rockwell Automation and Omron PLC's, we will find and provide you the training you require.
5. Integration of other automation equipment
For some, automation engineers, there will never be any need to move outside the item arrangement of a solitary seller, with providers, for example, WE(AS Automation Services) ready to address each prerequisite from PLC, HMI, Motion Controls, Safety and Robotics to low voltage power distribution products, servos and power management meters. Since these segments have been intended to cooperate, engineers profit by 'fitting and work' joining.
There are some automation merchants that sell modern PCs who can profess to offer a comprehensively comparable item portfolio however surely relatively few. Nonetheless, the genuine test comes when specialists need to look outside of a solitary brand and incorporate outsider parts.
With the advanced PLC, joining of outsider equipment is a breeze; can the equivalent be said for reconciliation on a PC platform? Are the drivers for those outsider modules ensured to work? What amount of design exertion will be required? Maybe more significantly, will there be a similar confirmation of continuous similarity through the operational life expectancy of the control stage?
There are some automation merchants that sell modern PCs who can profess to offer a comprehensively comparable item portfolio however surely relatively few. Nonetheless, the genuine test comes when specialists need to look outside of a solitary brand and incorporate outsider parts.
With the advanced PLC, joining of outsider equipment is a breeze; can the equivalent be said for reconciliation on a PC platform? Are the drivers for those outsider modules ensured to work? What amount of design exertion will be required? Maybe more significantly, will there be a similar confirmation of continuous similarity through the operational life expectancy of the control stage?
6. Performance
Regarding performance and power, Moore's law of computational capacity is similarly as material to PLCs for what it's worth to PCs – to be sure numerous individuals overlook that the advanced PLC is an amazing PC in its very own right. The most recent manifestation of the Mitsubishi Electric FX Series PLC, for instance, is multiple times quicker than the first.
Exactly how ground-breaking the advanced PLC is possibly truly becomes obvious when you take a gander at the speed of execution of guidelines, with the most recent plans offering sub-nanosecond execution. You may have the option to 'pimp' a PC to offer comparative execution however the PLC offers you that straight out of the container. At that point there is the expanded transport speed and the capacity to synchronize different I/O in a fast framework, conveying a considerably more responsive control framework. Once more, this is considerably more hard to accomplish outside of the PLC condition.
Exactly how ground-breaking the advanced PLC is possibly truly becomes obvious when you take a gander at the speed of execution of guidelines, with the most recent plans offering sub-nanosecond execution. You may have the option to 'pimp' a PC to offer comparative execution however the PLC offers you that straight out of the container. At that point there is the expanded transport speed and the capacity to synchronize different I/O in a fast framework, conveying a considerably more responsive control framework. Once more, this is considerably more hard to accomplish outside of the PLC condition.
7. Safety & Security
The appearance of prominent infections, for example, stuxnet have caused all of us to understandings that automation systems have become focuses, as malicious hackers hope to injure the activities of big companies/industries or essential utilities. With its commonplace operating system and innate network vulnerabilities, the PC can speak to the delicate underbelly of the control systems for anybody attempting to break in. The working frameworks of PLCs, conversely, are considerably less unmistakable to the outside world and this has generally offered a layer of protection against malignant plan. This doesn't mean, notwithstanding, that PLC producers underestimate security. Siemens or Mitsubishi Electric, for instance, empowers projects to be secret key ensured, with various degrees of access conceded to various degrees of client.
Further remote access inclinations can be set, for example, get to just being allowed to explicit IP addresses, securing PLC programming and the more extensive mechanization framework even in vigorously organized applications.
Further remote access inclinations can be set, for example, get to just being allowed to explicit IP addresses, securing PLC programming and the more extensive mechanization framework even in vigorously organized applications.
8. Intellectual property
Expanding the security contention, a worry for organizations with worldwide advancement groups or where the end framework will be introduced abroad is that the control programming will be replicated by deceitful outsiders and very immediately created as a focused, lower cost item.
Where this is a substantial worry over all control stage alternatives, the PLC makers have found a way to address the issue. With Siemens, Mitsubishi, Omron or Rockwell products, encoded code implanted in equipment and programming can be set to execute at a given time. That may imply that the framework is available to designers and installers directly all the way to the finish of charging of the application, yet then switches on to shield the framework from further cooperation.
Where this is a substantial worry over all control stage alternatives, the PLC makers have found a way to address the issue. With Siemens, Mitsubishi, Omron or Rockwell products, encoded code implanted in equipment and programming can be set to execute at a given time. That may imply that the framework is available to designers and installers directly all the way to the finish of charging of the application, yet then switches on to shield the framework from further cooperation.
9. Maintenance & troubleshooting
Each automation systems, paying little mind to stage, needs routine support; maybe to oversee equipment or programming redesigns, as a feature of scaling up the framework as the application advances, or, to swap out broken parts. The straightforwardness with which this can be practiced is a significant fascination of the PLC. Projects and arrangement settings for pretty much any associated segment can be put away to SD card by means of a space in the PLC CPU, streamlining any upkeep prerequisites.
To be sure, regardless of whether the PLC CPU itself were to come up short, another unit could be snapped onto the back-plane and the first program stacked direct from a boot-capable reinforcement on the SD card, recovering the framework going straight away.
Simultaneously, there are none of the prerequisites for progressing firmware refreshes that plague PC-based frameworks, with the consistent stress that any of these will conflict with another and push the framework to the edge of total collapse. The very actuality that the PC is a multi-reason framework is perhaps the best shortcoming in the computerization condition.
To be sure, regardless of whether the PLC CPU itself were to come up short, another unit could be snapped onto the back-plane and the first program stacked direct from a boot-capable reinforcement on the SD card, recovering the framework going straight away.
Simultaneously, there are none of the prerequisites for progressing firmware refreshes that plague PC-based frameworks, with the consistent stress that any of these will conflict with another and push the framework to the edge of total collapse. The very actuality that the PC is a multi-reason framework is perhaps the best shortcoming in the computerization condition.
10. Reduced IT requirements
One of the inquiries in any automation systems, considerably more so as joining between the plant floor and more elevated level frameworks comes into the condition, is the assignment of duty between the automation engineering group and the IT group. This can be a wellspring of grinding however maybe more critically there is the practically unavoidable absence of comprehension from each about the necessities of the other.
With PLC-based automation, the outline among engineering and IT is clear, with practically no requirement for the IT group to need to get required on the plant floor. Further, with items, for example, MES module – which attachments into the PLC back-plane and furnishes direct association with more elevated level databases – entire layers of PC items can be disposed of from the computerization framework by and large, making the boundary among automation and IT even more clear.
We can see, at that point, that there are numerous valid justifications why the PLC will proceed as the pillar of automation system control and that is before we've even considered issues, for example, excess, safety and that's just the beginning, in addition to the ability of the cutting edge PLC to perform a large number of the mind boggling math works that could once have just been performed in a PC-based framework.
Obviously the prerequisites of each automation system should prompt the choice of the proper control arrangement on merit yet the PLC provides numerous reason to be the first choice of platform.
With PLC-based automation, the outline among engineering and IT is clear, with practically no requirement for the IT group to need to get required on the plant floor. Further, with items, for example, MES module – which attachments into the PLC back-plane and furnishes direct association with more elevated level databases – entire layers of PC items can be disposed of from the computerization framework by and large, making the boundary among automation and IT even more clear.
We can see, at that point, that there are numerous valid justifications why the PLC will proceed as the pillar of automation system control and that is before we've even considered issues, for example, excess, safety and that's just the beginning, in addition to the ability of the cutting edge PLC to perform a large number of the mind boggling math works that could once have just been performed in a PC-based framework.
Obviously the prerequisites of each automation system should prompt the choice of the proper control arrangement on merit yet the PLC provides numerous reason to be the first choice of platform.
11. Creates new jobs and increase employment
PLC are made to suit the rugged industrial environment with good debugging capabilities and a standardized programming structure. More on THAT :- LINK
PLC, HMI and SCADA is not an outdated field, even now a days it has become the backbone of manufacturing industries, oil and gas industries, waste water treatment industries etc.
Apart of PLC, Some organizations are using DCS system, therefore if any body wants to make his career in automation he must have the knowledge of followings;
Automation Engineer must be practically comfortable to do programming independently with different kinds of PLC, able to make good communication with SCADA/HMI software.
Most of the organization are not well taking care about practical session of PLC and panel designing, hence be very careful about that particular training.
Some Examples of Automation Training Provider are;
PLC, HMI and SCADA is not an outdated field, even now a days it has become the backbone of manufacturing industries, oil and gas industries, waste water treatment industries etc.
Apart of PLC, Some organizations are using DCS system, therefore if any body wants to make his career in automation he must have the knowledge of followings;
- Knowledge of technology based on your B.Tech/dip branch eg. (EE/ME/EC).
- PLC( at list you should be comfortable to work on three to four PLCs).
- SCAD software.
- HMI.
- Drives/Motors.
- CAD and Panel designing.
- DCS system.
Automation Engineer must be practically comfortable to do programming independently with different kinds of PLC, able to make good communication with SCADA/HMI software.
Most of the organization are not well taking care about practical session of PLC and panel designing, hence be very careful about that particular training.
Some Examples of Automation Training Provider are;
- FMM(Federation of Malaysian Manufacturer) : A training provider institute registered under HRDF, very good training with hands on practical based, you can implement your knowledge with project work, because that is included in their course curriculum. At the end of the course they will provide training certificate which recommended in Malaysia.
- NSSDC (Negeri Sembilan Skill Development Centre) : is a joint project initiated by the State Government and a group of private industries in Negeri Sembilan. The main aim is to provide a total learning solution for the industries and acts as a platform to facilitate the promotion of Technical Skill and Management Skills for occupational competence.
- Griffin Solution : Third Party Training provider, all the trainings and development activity which undertake will have a positive impact on the future performance on our client business. Griffin will provide inspiring training that motivate individuals to achieve their full potential there by helping our clients achieve their corporate goals. HRDF Registered Training Provider.
and so on...
In AS Automation Services , we provide detailed , fully equipped with PLC hardware , software & laptop for cheapest price possible and we also provide one-to-one training