Everything you need to know about PLCs (Programmable Logic Controllers)
Credit to Author: Atin Chhabra| Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2018 07:04:06 +0000
Any person with the minutest idea about how industries function in today’s day-and-age can vouch for the fact that the manufacturing sector has become the driving force when it comes to dictating the pace at which a country’s economy develops. However, one of the significant questions that most people ask in regard to this sector is as follows – what tools are crucial to ensure the optimal functioning of this industry? Keeping this query in mind, it must be said that one of the most vital components that govern the industry’s functions is none other than the Programmable Logic Controller, or PLC for short.
Automation is an exceedingly helpful form of technology that has governed the functioning of numerous types of machinery present in the manufacturing sector. PLC is one such form of technology that has become commonplace with the prevalence of automation. It continuously monitors the various input processes involved in the functioning of a particular form of machinery and optimises it to the extent that the manufacturing process is streamlined extensively.
However, a PLC is not the only tool that is key to ensuring the efficient working of a manufacturing unit.
Controlling machinery is also an integral part of a manufacturing unit. This mandates the need to set up a proper and effective system that can see to it that any actions are regulated with the greatest of ease. In this context, a limit switch can prove to be incredibly helpful. It is an electromechanical device with an actuator that’s mechanically linked to a set of contacts. According to a machine’s functioning, the limit switch will either make or break an electrical connection. Their simplicity is one of the primary reasons why a limit switch has become one of the most prominent forms of technology in the manufacturing sector.
The utilisation of servo motors has also become almost universal across the board due to the numerous applications of this particular technology. In industries – especially from a manufacturing point of view – motor starters have become a universal requirement. We say this because the sheer number of motors present across the board are immense, which mandates the need for a technological service that can govern the functioning of these motors and sees to it that little to no problems arise throughout the industrial process.
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