Industrial Automation Systems for the Modern Plant: Instrumentation, Motion Control, and PLCs for the Industry 4.0 Era
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Every technician eventually hits the same wall: the plant doesn't care whether the fault is electrical, mechanical, or a bad PLC bit — it just stops. Industrial Automation Systems for the Modern Plant is built for that reality. Across 22 chapters it covers the full stack a working technician actually touches: solid-state switching and interfacing hardware, PLC architecture and ladder logic, HMI/SCADA integration, DC and AC motors, servo motion profiles, VFDs and drives, and the full instrumentation core — pressure, temperature, flow, level, and analytical measurement — followed by signal conditioning, process control tuning, calibration, and instrumentation documentation. Two chapters most competing texts skip entirely close out the technical material: industrial networking/fieldbus fundamentals and a real treatment of Industry 4.0 and IIoT on the actual plant floor, not just as buzzwords. Every numeric worked example follows a consistent GIVEN/FIND/EQUATION/SUBSTITUTION/STEP-BY-STEP/RESULT structure, so the math is traceable rather than buried. Every chapter ends with Problems and fully worked Solutions, not an answer key. Over 225 original technical figures — cutaways, ladder-logic rungs, wiring diagrams, and data plots — support the text throughout, and a capstone troubleshooting chapter ties every earlier chapter's diagnostic skill into one integrated methodology. This is a book written for the technician who keeps automated systems running, not the engineer who designs them from a blank sheet What's inside PLC scan cycles, memory addressing, ladder logic, and timer instructions (TON/TOF/RTO), through SCADA architecture, tag databases, alarm philosophy, and HMI screen design Motor and drive theory from brushed DC construction through NEMA design classes, servo feedback devices (absolute vs. incremental encoders), trapezoidal motion profiles, and full VFD internals — PWM, scalar vs. vector control, DC bus braking Pressure, temperature, flow, and level sensing technology by working principle: strain-gauge and piezoresistive elements, thermocouple cold-junction compensation, Coriolis and vortex-shedding flow meters, wet-leg/dry-leg DP level installations Signal conditioning fundamentals: Wheatstone bridge circuits, 2/3/4-wire transmitter wiring, loop power budgeting, and the HART protocol layered on 4-20 mA PID control from the three individual terms through Ziegler-Nichols and manual tuning-by-observation methods Full ISA-5.1 tag and symbology conventions — bubble line styles, P&ID line types, control valve/actuator symbols — so students can read real plant drawings, not simplified textbook diagrams Industrial networking down to decoding a live Modbus message frame, then Industry 4.0/IIoT through the Purdue Model, MQTT messaging, OEE, and predictive maintenance A capstone troubleshooting chapter built around the 5-Whys technique and worked cross-discipline fault scenarios, not a generic "how to debug" checklist Who it's for Technical-college and community-college students in industrial maintenance, instrumentation, or electromechanical programs Working industrial maintenance technicians building toward broader cross-domain competence Instrumentation and controls technicians who need a single reference spanning motors, drives, and process instrumentation Instructors teaching survey-style industrial automation or mechatronics courses Self-learners transitioning into industrial automation/controls roles
