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PROLIFIC SYSTEM & TECHNOLOGIES Pvt. Ltd. 

PROLIFIC INSTITUTE

  • Founded in 1997,with the vision of “best quality training”. 
  • Prolific is professionally run company established by technocrats with several years of experience. 
  • Prolific has fully equipped facilities at over 20 key locations in india. 
  • It also provides corporate training.

  • Prolific established the training division that imparts advanced technology training.

Automation

  • Automation is basically a delegation of human control function to control technical equipment.
  • Automation is the use of control systems and information technologies reducing the need for human intervention.

CONCEPT OF AUTOMATION

Automation History

  • MANUAL CONTROL
  • PLC 
  • PNEUMATIC CONTROL
  • HARD WIRE LOGIC CONTROL
  • ELECTRONIC CONTROL USING GATES

Automation Tools

  • Different types of automation tools exist: 
    • ANN - Artificial neural network 
    • DCS - Distributed Control System 
    • HMI - Human Machine Interface 
    • SCADA - Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition 
    • PLC - Programmable Logic Controller 
    • PAC - Programmable automation controller 
    • Instrumentation 
    • Motion control 
    • Robotics 

SCADA System

  • SCADA stands for supervisory control and data acquisition.
    • It generally refers to an industrial control system: a computer system monitoring and controlling a process. The process can be industrial, infrastructure or facility-based.
  • Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition System refers to a system that enables an electric utility to monitor, coordinate, control and operate distribution components and devices in a real-time mode from remote locations with acquisition of data for analysis and planning, from one central location

BOILER

Features of SCADA

  • DYNAMIC REPRESENTATION 
  • ALARMS 
  • TRENDS 
  • SCRIPTS 

Features of SCADA 

  • DEVICE CONNECTIVITY 
  • RECIPE 
  • SECURITY 
  • DATABASE CONNECTIVITY 

SCADA SOFTWARES

  • WONDERWARE
  • INTOUCH 
  • ALLEN BRADLEY
  • RSVIEW32 SEIMENS
  • WINCC GE FANUC
  • CIMPLICITY KPIT
  • ASTRA 

Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC)

  • What does ‘PLC’ mean?
    • A PLC (Programmable Logic Controllers) is an industrial computer used to monitor inputs, and depending upon their state make decisions based on its program or logic, to control (turn on/off) its outputs to automate a machine or a process.

PLCs

LADDER PROGRAM

SWITCH


IMPACT of AUTOMATION

  • Automation has had a notable impact in a wide range of highly visible industries beyond manufacturing.
  • Once-ubiquitous telephone operators have been replaced largely by automated telephone switchboards and answering machines.
  • Medical processes such as primary screening in electrocardiography or radiography and laboratory analysis of human genes, cells, and tissues are carried out at much greater speed and accuracy by automated systems.
  • In general, automation has been responsible for the shift in the world economy from agrarian to industrial in the 19th century and from industrial to services in the 20th century. 

ADVANTAGES

  • Accurate and consistent information 
  • Faster fault identification 
  • Improved availability of system 
  • Increased Production 

  • Reduced Cost
  • Maintenance of Quality & Quantity
  • Improved Safety Conditions

Disadvantages

  • The main disadvantages of automation are
  • Technology limits: Current technology is unable to automate all the desired tasks.
  • Unpredictable development costs.:The research and development cost of automating a process is difficult to predict accurately beforehand. Since this cost can have a large impact on profitability, it's possible to finish automating a process only to discover that there's no economic advantage in doing so.
  • Initial costs are relatively high: The automation of a new product required a huge initial investment in comparison with the unit cost of the product, although the cost of automation is spread in many product batches

APPLICATIONS

  • Automated Video surveillance
  • Automated Highway Systems
  • Automated manufacturing
  • Home Automation

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