Please let me know if there is site for learning PLC basic and functions in on line. I am a new trainee in this field. I would like to know more about PLC. Please advise.

 

1) PLC web forum and on-line fundamentals, Purchase book or video.
http://www.plcs.net/contents.shtml

2) PLC forum with brand specific articles:
http://www.mrplc.com/kb/

3) Hugh Jack's Automated Manufacturing Systems: PLCs on-line book
http://claymore.engineer.gvsu.edu/~jackh/books/plcs/

4) on-line book in English:
http://www.mikroelektronika.co.yu/english/product/books/PLCbook/plcbook.htm

5) low cost on-line (paid) course or purchase CD
http://www.plctechnician.com/

6) Commerical training service sells PLC books & video
http://www.industrialtext.com/

Bud

 

Here are a few sites where you can find simulators, tutorials and help (besides this one, of course...):
-http://plcs.net
-http://www.thelearningpit.com
-http://www.mrplc.com

This should give you a head start.
Hope this helps,
Daniel Chartier

 

Hello Thomas,

Check this:

http://www.plcs.net/
http://www.mrplc.com/
http://www.thelearningpit.com/

Regards,
Engelbert

 

a quick reply is all i can give at this present time
as you might be very new to this field besides going
to a trade collage you might invest in a very small
plc Allen Bradley along with others will or can supply
a s cheap as around $150 dollars a small 4 or 5 input
and a 4 with a 5 output plc the help files that come
with any starter soft wear can help as a starter
course at a trade college Will only guide you plc
basic with limited experience necessary and with a few
trips to the local library there might be some useful
hint books on your chosen plc as i said before use a
24 or lower voltage as your local supplier of
electronics store can supply some basic switches and a
low voltage zero mode power supply as these are
filtered for any electronic device you might use to
switch an input to the plc the code writing comes with
lots of practise and Patience. good luck.

 

There are a lot of places to learn PLCs. This place is good for information, so are www.mrplc.com and www.plcs.net, and probably a dozen other places that I don't follow regularly. But the best thing to do is get some kind of physical device you can play with. I usually tell people to go to eBay, type "plc training" in the search box, and look at the low end A-B Mircologix and GE Fanuc packages there. You can get rolling for a few hundred dollars. You won't learn to be an expert from those packages, but you'll get off the ground, which is the hardest part.

The biggest trick to overcome, in my mind at least, is to get past the idea that knowing how a PLC works makes you a controls engineer. A lot of superb controls engineers never saw a PLC, and a lot of PLC programmers don't understand what the real world process they're trying to control really does. In other words, know how the PLC works doesn't make you any more of a control engineer that know how a spreadsheet works makes you an accountant. It's an important skill within the discipline, but it's only one of many skills required. Don't ignore those other skills.

MB

 

Good 1 everybody.

I suggest you take more official methods of study and go to a technical college and do the correct courses.

In my 20 years in PLC control. I have spent 18 years of it. Tearing out crap programs done by people that were self taught, and writing them properly.

So do everyone a favour, learn it properly.