Programmable Logic Controllers, 5th Edition

Programmable Logic Controllers continues to provide an up-to-date introduction to all aspects of PLC programming, installation, and maintaining procedures. Improvements have been made to every chapter. The content, applied programming examples, instructor/student resources (including lesson PowerPoint presentations with simulated PLC program videos), test generator, LogixPro lab manual, and activities manual. With this edition, students and instructors also have access to McGraw-Hill Education’s digital products – Connect and SmartBook, for the first time!

McGraw-Hill Education’s Connect, is also available as an optional, add on item. Connect is the only integrated learning system that empowers students by continuously adapting to deliver precisely what they need, when they need it, how they need it, so that class time is more effective. Connect allows the professor to assign homework, quizzes, and tests easily and automatically grades and records the scores of the student’s work. Problems are randomized to prevent sharing of answers an may also have a “multi-step solution” which helps move the students’ learning along if they experience difficulty.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs): An Overview
Chapter 2 PLC Hardware Components
Chapter 3 Number Systems and Codes
Chapter 4 Fundamentals of Logic
Chapter 5 Basics of PLC Programming
Chapter 6 Developing Fundamental PLC Wiring Diagrams and Ladder Logic Programs
Chapter 7 Programming Timers
Chapter 8 Programming Counters
Chapter 9 Program Control Instructions
Chapter 10 Data Manipulation Instructions
Chapter 11 Math Instructions
Chapter 12 Sequencer and Shift Register Instructions
Chapter 13 PLC Installation Practices, Editing, and Troubleshooting
Chapter 14 Process Control, Network Systems, and SCADA
Chapter 15 ControlLogix Controllers