| Author | Patagan, Alpha Marie F. |
| Call Number | AIT Thesis no. ISE-98-20 |
| Subject(s) | Programmable controllers
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| Note | A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Engineering, School of Advanced Technologies |
| Publisher | Asian Institute of Technology |
| Abstract | An interesting subject to note is that most manufacturing plants are striving for global
competence. Quality, and maintaining it, has also been a major issue for global
competitiveness. Automation has proven its indispensability by answering most of the
pressing issues on this matter.
However, though the teclrnology has increased in almost all aspects, it has not
effectively reduced the number of operators involved and the presence of worker oversight to
cope up with emergency cases and during alarm periods. This greatly emphasizes the fact that
PLC technology alone as applied on these so-called automated machines is not sufficient.
Aside from the fact that design stage have proved to be quite a difficult stage due to it being
quite abstract especially to the key personnel, the need for seeing the design first before it gets
implemented in the real system arise.
The need to see the design made and visualize how it works has given great potential
for the use of Win CC in the field of manufacturing and other application areas. It has provided
the much-needed control of the whole real system from the graphics-oriented output. It has
also provided the authorized in the plant to see the whole process anytime as well as, being
able to stop or sta1t the system directly from any c01rnected remote computer controller
without even going into the laborious process of physically visiting the whole production area.
The Win CC and PLC teclrnology tandem offer these advantages, among others. |
| Year | 1998 |
| Type | Thesis |
| School | School of Advanced Technologies |
| Department | Other Field of Studies (No Department) |
| Academic Program/FoS | Industrial Systems Engineering (ISE) |
| Chairperson(s) | Afzulpurkar, Nitin; |
| Examination Committee(s) | Pandey, P.C.; Visvanathan, Chettiyappan ; |
| Scholarship Donor(s) | German Academic Exchange Service (D.A.A.D.); |
| Degree | Thesis (M.Eng.) - Asian Institute of Technology, 1998 |