Course Code: MENG 3500
Academic Year: 2024-2025
This course presents and focuses on the designing practice of Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) widely used in the automation industry. PLCs represent one of the fastest growing sectors of the industrial industry and have proven to be the solution for a variety of applications, which previously relied on electromechanical control systems. The students program PLCs using the IEC 61131-3 standard languages such as ladder logic, function block diagram, structure text, and sequential function chart. In addition, this course provides communication methods about factory communication networks of the PLCs. Moreover, the students write, download, and execute application programs using human machine interfaces to monitor and control the process applications automated by the PLCs. The real industrial applications provide practical programming and troubleshooting skills used in the maintenance of automated systems.