Programmable Controllers 075065757X-ch000-prelims.fm Page i Saturday, June 28, 2003 4:46 PM In memory of Arthur Parr, 1913–1992. Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all. John F. Kennedy 21 May 1963 075065757X-ch000-prelims.fm Page ii Saturday, June 28, 2003 4:46 PM Programmable Controllers An engineer’s guide Third edition E.A. Parr, MSc, CEng, MIEE, MInstMC AMSTERDAM BOSTON HEIDELBERG LONDON NEW YORK OXFORD PARIS SAN DIEGO SAN FRANCISCO SINGAPORE SYDNEY TOKYO Newnes 075065757X-ch000-prelims.fm Page iii Saturday, June 28, 2003 4:46 PM Newnes An imprint of Elsevier Linacre House, Jordan Hill, Oxford OX2 8DP 200 Wheeler Road, Burlington, MA 01803 A division of Reed Educational and Professional Publishing Ltd A member of the Reed Elsevier plc group First published 1993 Second edition 1999 Third edition 2003 Copyright © E.A. Parr 1993, 1999, 2003. All rights reserved. The right of E.A. Parr to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 No part of this publication may be reproduced in any material form (including photocopying or storing in any medium by electronic means and whether or not transiently or incidentally to some other use of this publication) without the written permission of the copyright holder except in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 or under the terms of a licence issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency Ltd, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London, England W1T 4LP. Applications for the copyright holder’s written permission to reproduce any part of this publication should be addressed to the publishers British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 0 7506 5757 X Typeset by Integra Software Services Pvt. Ltd, Pondicherry, India www.integra-india.com Printed and bound in Great Britain For information on all Newnes publications visit our website at: newnespress.com 075065757X-ch000-prelims.fm Page iv Saturday, June 28, 2003 4:46 PM Contents Preface xi 1 Computers and industrial control 1 1.1 Introduction 1 1.2 Types of control strategies 1 1.2.1 Monitoring subsystems 2 1.2.2 Sequencing subsystems 2 1.2.3 Closed loop control subsystems 4 1.2.4 Control devices 5 1.3 Enter the computer 6 1.3.1 Computer architectures 7 1.3.2 Machine code and assembly language programming 11 1.3.3 High level languages 11 1.3.4 Application programs 14 1.3.5 Requirements for industrial control 14 1.3.6 The programmable controller 18 1.4 Input/output connections 21 1.4.1 Input cards 21 1.4.2 Output connections 22 1.4.3 Input/output identification 28 1.5 Remote I/O 29 1.6 The advantages of PLC control 31 075065757X-ch000-prelims.fm Page v Saturday, June 28, 2003 4:46 PM vi Contents 2 Programming techniques 33 2.1 Introduction 33 2.2 The program scan 36 2.3 Identification of input/output and bit addresses 40 2.3.1 Racks, cards and signals 40 2.3.2 Allen Bradley PLC-5 41 2.3.3 Siemens SIMATIC S5 42 2.3.4 CEGELEC GEM-80 42 2.3.5 ABB Master 45 2.3.6 Mitsubishi F2 47 2.3.7 Internal bit storage 48 2.4 Programming methods 48 2.4.1 Introduction 48 2.4.2 Ladder diagrams 49 2.4.3 Logic symbols 52 2.4.4 Statement list 55 2.5 Bit storage 58 2.6 Timers 63 2.7 Counters 67 2.8 Numerical applications 72 2.8.1 Numeric representations 72 2.8.2 Data movement 75 2.8.3 Data comparison 77 2.8.4 Arithmetical operations 78 2.9 Combinational and event-driven logic 81 2.9.1 Combinational logic 81 2.9.2 Event-driven logic 86 2.10 Micro PLCs 95 2.11 IEC 1131-3, towards a common standard 99 2.12 Programming software 105 2.13 Programming software tools 109 3 Programming style 115 3.1 Introduction 115 3.2 Software engineering 116 3.3 Top-down design 118 075065757X-ch000-prelims.fm Page vi Saturday, June 28, 2003 4:46 PM Contents vii 3.4 Program structure in various PLCs 119 3.5 Housekeeping and good software practice 128 3.6 Speeding up the PLC scan time 135 4 Analog signals, closed loop control and intelligent modules 140 4.1 Introduction 140 4.2 Common analog signals 140 4.2.1 Temperature 140 4.2.2 Pressure 142 4.2.3 Flow 144 4.2.4 Speed 146 4.2.5 Weighing systems 146 4.2.6 Level 147 4.2.7 Position 148 4.2.8 Output signals 149 4.3 Signals and standards 149 4.4 Analog interfacing 151 4.4.1 Resolution 151 4.4.2 Multiplexed inputs 152 4.4.3 Conversion times 153 4.4.4 Channel selection and conversion to engineering units 156 4.4.5 Analog input cards 158 4.4.6 Filtering 160 4.5 Analog output signals 160 4.6 Analog-related program functions 163 4.7 Closed loop control 164 4.7.1 Introduction to control theory 164 4.7.2 Stability and loop tuning 167 4.7.3 Closed loop control and PLCs 168 4.8 Specialist control processors 172 4.9 Bar codes 173 4.10 High-speed counters 178 4.11 Intelligent modules 178 4.12 Installation notes 179 075065757X-ch000-prelims.fm Page vii Saturday, June 28, 2003 4:46 PM viii Contents 5 Distributed systems 182 5.1 Parallel and serial communications 182 5.2 Serial standards 185 5.2.1 Introduction 185 5.2.2 Synchronization 185 5.2.3 Character codes 186 5.2.4 Transmission rates 186 5.2.5 Modulation of digital signals 189 5.2.6 Standards and protocols 191 5.2.7 Error control 196 5.2.8 Point to point communication 202 5.3 Area networks 205 5.3.1 Introduction 205 5.3.2 Transmission lines 205 5.3.3 Network topologies 207 5.3.4 Network sharing 209 5.3.5 A communication hierarchy 210 5.4 The ISO/OSI model 212 5.5 Proprietary systems 214 5.5.1 Introduction 214 5.5.2 Allen Bradley Data Highway 215 5.5.3 Gem-80 Starnet, ESP and CORONET 217 5.5.4 Siemens SINEC 218 5.5.5 Ethernet 218 5.5.6 Towards standardization 219 5.5.7 Profibus 223 5.6 Safety and practical considerations 224 5.7 Fibre optics 227 6 The man–machine interface 232 6.1 Introduction 232 6.2 Simple digital control and indicators 234 6.3 Numerical outputs and inputs 236 6.3.1 Numerical outputs 236 6.3.2 Multiplexed outputs 237 6.3.3 Leading zero suppression 240 6.3.4 Numerical inputs 240 6.4 Alarm annunciation 242 075065757X-ch000-prelims.fm Page viii Thursday, July 3, 2003 3:59 PM Contents ix 6.5 Analog indication 247 6.6 Computer graphics 250 6.6.1 Introduction 250 6.6.2 The Allen Bradley Panelview 254 6.6.3 Pixel graphics; the CEGELEC Imagem 256 6.6.4 The Siemens Simatic HMI family 265 6.6.5 Practical considerations 267 6.6.6 Data entry 270 6.7 Message displays 271 6.8 SCADA packages 271 7 Industrial control with conventional computers 276 7.1 Introduction 276 7.2 Bus-based machines 277 7.2.1 Introduction 277 7.2.2 IEEE-488 parallel interface bus 278 7.2.3 Backplane bus systems 281 7.2.4 IBM PC clones 282 7.3 Programming for real time control 285 7.4 Soft PLCs 292 8 Practical aspects 293 8.1 Introduction 293 8.2 Safety 293 8.2.1 Introduction 293 8.2.2 Risk assessment 294 8.2.3 PLCs, computers and safety 296 8.2.4 Emergency stops 308 8.2.5 Guarding 312 8.2.6 Safety legislation 314 8.2.7 IEC 61508 315 8.3 Design criteria 320 8.4 Constructional notes 322 8.4.1 Power supplies 322 8.4.2 Equipment protection 325 8.5 Maintenance and fault finding 331 8.5.1 Introduction 331 8.5.2 Statistical representation of reliability 332 075065757X-ch000-prelims.fm Page ix Saturday, June 28, 2003 4:46 PM x Contents 8.5.3 Maintenance philosophies 335 8.5.4 Designing for faults 337 8.5.5 Documentation 339 8.5.6 Training 344 8.5.7 Fault-finding aids, EDDI and FIMs 348 8.6 Electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) and CE marking 354 8.7 Other programmable devices 359 9 Sample ladder logic 362 9.1 Introduction 362 9.2 One Shot 364 9.3 Toggle action 365 9.4 Alarm annunciator 368 9.5 First order filter 370 9.6 Level control 373 9.7 Linearization 380 9.8 Flow totalization 385 9.9 Scaling 391 9.10 Gray code conversion 394 9.11 BCD to Binary conversion 398 9.12 Binary to BCD conversion 400 9.13 A hydraulic system 403 Appendix Number systems 416 Index 421 075065757X-ch000-prelims.fm Page x Saturday, June 28, 2003 4:46 PM . OXFORD PARIS SAN DIEGO SAN FRANCISCO SINGAPORE SYDNEY TOKYO Newnes 075065757X-ch000-prelims.fm Page iii Saturday, June 28, 2003 4:46 PM Newnes An imprint. I have worked with PLCs from AEG, GE, Landys and Gyr, Modicon, Telemecanique, Texas Instruments and many other companies. To these manufacturers I offer