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Turbogenerators

Gas turbines are turbomachines that generally belong to the group of thermal generating machines and whose operating range ranges from small powers (30 KW for m...

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LEVEL MEASUREMENT BY RADIOACTIVE TYPE

There are processes in which it is no longer impossible to perform level measurements with the elements mentioned above, when they are at high temperature, high...

SCADA

A SCADA (Supervision, Control and Data Acquisition) system is a software application, designed with the purpose of controlling and supervising remote processes....

Hart Protocol

Today I want to write a different article presenting the hart protocol with a history of several episodes, which has taken place in industrial production plants...

Modbus Protocol

Since man appears on earth, we humans have had the need to communicate among ourselves and with the environment that surrounds us, sometimes even the need to re...

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Automatic guided vehicles

The industry is constantly looking for new solutions in order to speed up and make the most of its production processes. AGVs are Automatic Guided Vehicles (AGV...

PLC: DATA INPUT AND OUTPUT MODULES

These modules are in charge of the intercommunication work between the industrial devices outside the PLC and all the low-power electronic circuits that compris...

Signals in a PLC

The information generated in the sensors is sent to the microcontroller of the PLC, through elements that serve to isolate the environmental stage where the sen...

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ARCHITECTURE OF A PLC

In order to describe the parts that make up a PLC, it is imperative to define that every automatic control system has three stages that are inherent and essenti...

WHERE TO INSTALL A PLC

PLCs can be found in a large number of sites performing the functions of controlling industrial processes, these processes become so different even within the s...

Programmable Logic Controller (introduction)

Once we have studied the sensors and actuators it is time to dedicate time to understand the function of the controllers, previously we began describing pneumat...

Pneumatic controller

Each sensor will take influence on an actuator by means of an instrument programmed to respond to input signals that can be of the analogical or discrete type, ...

MEASUREMENT OF LIQUID LEVELS

The need to store liquids has led us to design and build large containers which are widely used in industry with enormous volumetric capacities. The design of e...

Instrument calibration

Continuing with the theoretical foundations of instrumentation today, I would like to deal with a very important subject on which the entire measurement process...

Theory of industrial instrumentation

Since I have already made an illustrated introduction on automation and its general components, I believe that some definitions need to be added at this point i...

Process Controllers

In this cycle of introduction to automation I have described some fundamental components that make up this cycle by sharing photographs that I have taken while ...

Control Valves

In processes it is not enough to know the magnitude of a variable, it is necessary to be able to control it to obtain the desired values. The devices that inter...