Industrial instrumentation and automation systems

Automation or automatic control is the use of various control systems techniques to operate an industrial process with minimum human interference. Three components are needed to realize modern automatic processes:

• Sensors to detect the system states.
• Actuators to output the control commands.
• Controllers for the program flow and to make decisions.

This course will emphasize the industrial automation elements. Application of relay on the process operation with an introduction to PLC will be discussed. Sensors technology and its role in the industrial automation process will be covered. Course aims This course will provide a good knowledge on industrial instrumentations, and its role in industrial automation.

• Understand the concept of the instrumentation system.
• Interpret the industrial automation system parts.
• Apply relay in the industrial automation system.
• Constructs a simple PLC program.
• Assembles of a simple automation system.