PLC: Industrial Sensors

Course details

Industrial control systems cannot—unlike humans—see, hear, and monitor processes by themselves. Instead, they use industrial sensors to convert mechanical, magnetic, thermal, optical, and chemical variations into electric voltages and currents. In this course, Zahraa Khalil covers the most common types of industrial sensors used within the field of industrial automation. She looks at proximity, temperature, pressure, and level sensors, and explores the operating principles and common applications of each. If you’ve got the basics of programmable logic controllers (PLCs) programming down and want to see what you can do with industrial sensors, join Zahraa in this course.

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Understanding industrial sensors
02 - What you should know

1. Proximity Sensors

03 - Introduction to industrial sensors
04 - Proximity sensors
05 - Proximity sensors operating principle
06 - What are inductive proximity sensors
07 - Inductive proximity sensors operating principle
08 - What are capacitive proximity sensors
09 - Capacitive proximity sensors operation principle
10 - Capacitive proximity sensors dielectric constant

2. Temperature Sensors

11 - Introduction to temperature sensors
12 - What are thermocouples
13 - Thermocouple types
14 - Thermocouple reference tables
15 - What are RTDs
16 - RTDs operation principle and wire configurations
17 - Connecting thermocouples and RTD to PLC

3. Pressure Sensors

18 - Introduction to pressure sensors
19 - Understanding range, zero, span
20 - Suppressed and elevated zero range
21 - Zero span calibration
22 - Pressure sensors measurement types
23 - Application examples

4. Level Sensors

24 - What is a level sensor
25 - Analog digital level sensors
26 - Ultrasonic sensors

Conclusion

27 - Next step