PLC的英文介绍

PLC Introduction
Programmable controller is the first in the late 1960s in the United States, then called Plc programmable logic controller (Programmable Logic Controller) is used to replace relays. For the implementation of the logical judgment, timing, sequence number, and other control functions. The concept is presented Plc General Motors Corporation. Plc and the basic design is the computer functional improvements, flexible, generic and other advantages and relay control system simple and easy to operate, such as the advantages of cheap prices combined controller hardware is standard and overall. According to the practical application of target software in order to control the content of the user procedures memory controller, the controller and connecting the accused convenient target.
In the mid-1970s, the Plc has been widely used as a central processing unit microprocessor, import export module and the external circuits are used, large-scale integrated circuits even when the Plc is no longer the only logical (IC) judgment functions also have data processing, PID conditioning and data communications functions. International Electro technical Commission (IEC) standards promulgated programmable controller for programmable controller draft made the following definition : programmable controller is a digital electronic computers operating system, specifically for applications in the industrial design environment. It used programmable memory, used to implement logic in their internal storage operations, sequence control, timing, counting and arithmetic operations, such as operating instructions, and through digital and analog input and output, the control of various types of machinery or production processes. Programmable controller and related peripherals, and industrial control systems easily linked to form a whole, to expand its functional design. Programmable controller for the user, is a non-contact equipment, the procedures can be changed to change production processes. The programmable controller has become a powerful tool for factory automation, widely popular replication. Programmable controller is user-oriented industries dedicated control computer, with many distinctive features.
First, high reliability, anti-interference capability;
Second，programming visual, simple;
Third, adaptability good;
Fourth functional improvements, strong functional interface
1.Design Theory Development
Today, the primary focus of most design research is based on mechanical or electrical products. One of the by-products of this proposed research is to enhance our fundamental understanding of design theory and methodology by extending it to the field of engineering systems design.
A system design theory for large-scale and complex system is not yet fully developed. Particularly, the question of how to simplify a complicated or complex design task has not been tackled in a scientific way. Furthermore, building a bridge between design theory and the latest epistemological outcomes of formal representations in computer sciences and operations research, such as discrete event system modeling, can advance future development in engineering design.
2.Application in Logical Hardware Design
From a logical perspective, PLC software design is similar to the hardware design of integrated circuits. Modern VLSI designs are extremely complex with several million parts and a product development time of 3 years [Whitney, 1996]. The design process is normally separated into a component design and a system design stage. At component design stage, single functions are designed and verified. At system design stage, components are aggregated and the whole system behavior and functionality is tested through simulation. In general, a complete verification is impossible. Hence, a systematic approach as exemplified for the PLC program design may impact the logical hardware design.
Programming languages
Higher level PLC programming languages have been around for some time, but lately their popularity has been mushrooming. As Raymond Lavelle, vice president and general manager, Siemens Energy and Automation. Inc, Programmable Controls Division, points out :”As programmable controls are being used for more and more sophisticated operations, languages other than ladder logic become more practical, efficient, and powerful. For example, it's very difficult to write a trigonometric function using ladder logic. ”Languages gaining acceptance include Boolean, control system flowcharting, and such function chart languages as Graphtec and its variations. And these’s incre asing interest in languages like C and BASIC.
PLCs in process control
Thus far, PLCs have not been used extensively for continuous process control. Will this continue? ”The feeling that I’ve gotten,” says Ken Jeannette, manager, product planning, Series One and Series Six products, at GE Frame North America, "is that PLCs will be used in the process industry but not necessarily for process control.”
Several vendors-obviously betting that the opposite will happen-have introduced PLCs optimized for process applications. Rich Ryan ,manager, commercial marketing, Allen-Bradley Programmable Controls Div, cites PLCs’ increasing use in such industries as food, chemicals, and petroleum. Ryan feel there are two types of applications in which they’re appropriate.”One, "he says, "is where the size of the process control system that's being automated doesn’t justify DCS[distributed control systems].With the starting price tags of those products being relatively high, a programmable controller makes sense for small, low loop count applications. The seconds where you have to integrate the loop closely with the sequential logic. Batch controller sere prime examples, where the sequence and maintaining the process variable are intertwined so closely that the benefits of having a programmable controller to do the sequential logic outweighs some of the disadvantages of not having a distributed control system.”
Bill Barkovtz, president of Triconex, predicts that "all future controllers that come out in the process control system business will embrace a lot more PLC technology and a lot more PLC functionality than they ever did before.”
Communications and MAP
Communications are vital to an individual automation cell and to the automated factory as a whole. We've heard a lot about MAP in the last few years, and a lot of companies have jumped on the band wagon. Many, however were disappointed when a fully-defined and completed MAP specification didn’t appear immediately. Says Larry Kumara:”Right now , MAP is still a moving target for the manufacturers specification that is not final. Presently, for example, people are introducing products to meet the MAP 2.1standard.Yet 2.1-based products will be obsolete when the new standard for MAP,3.0is introduced.”
Because of this, many PLC vendors are holding off on full MAP implementations. Omron, for example , has an ongoing MAP-compatibility
program, but Frank Newborn, vice president of Omron’s Industrial Division, reports that because of the lack of a firm definition, Omron's PLCs don't yet talk to MAP.
Since it’s unlikely that an individual PLC would talk to broadband MAP anyway, makers are concentrating n proprietary networks. According to Sal Provanzano, users fear that if they do get on board and vendors withdraw from MAP, they ‘ll pulse width modulation control system be the ones left holding a communications structure that’s not supported.。